Author Topic: "Your" Championship teams during your lifetime (Read 12460 times)

HouWarrior · « **on:** July 31, 2018, 05:10:37 PM »

My fan life began quickly and successfully, but has included decades in the desert, too. How about you?

When I was young I thought celebrating championships of my local teams was going to be a frequent joy.
By age 21 I already had celebrated 5 championships of "my" teams:

Packers:
1965, 1966, 1967
Bucks:
1971
Marquette BB:
1977

Then the drought....from spring 1977 to spring 2017....the next 40 years of my life....I had only 2 more championships:

Rockets:
1994,1995

When the Rockets won in 95, my then 8 yr old nephew thought I was weird for telling him to cherish the specialness of the moment, as they occur so infrequently...well ...over 23 years later ....my now 31 year old nephew cried with me as we watched the Astros clinch their first WS championship ever....in fall of 2017

62 years.... only 8 championships...of my teams....how many do you have??
How long are your droughts?

BTW, For me, Non-Qualifiers...

I do not include the Pack in 96 or 10, as although I was still a fan and shareholder, I was no longer local to WI and I also rooted for local Texans...

I cant bring myself to bootstrap in here 4 Houston Comets WNBA titles, or the Houston Dynamo's MLS crown...I never followed either team...

and my near misses....NCAA final 4 (UH-82,83,84) (MU -03), WS (Twins 65)(Astros-05), NBA finals(Rockets-81 86) and Super Bowl appearances(Texans-0)....without winning...are not championships

🏀 · « **Reply #1 on:** July 31, 2018, 05:17:22 PM »

Cubs - 2016
Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
Packers - 97, 11
Blackhawks - 10, 13, 17

In order of importance.

Waiting on Marquette, you got about 51 years left until I pass at the ripe, perfect age of 83.

Galway Eagle · « **Reply #2 on:** July 31, 2018, 05:19:25 PM »

Quote from: PTM + Chartouny = Us on July 31, 2018, 05:17:22 PM

~~Cubs - 2016~~
Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
Packers - 97, 11
Blackhawks - 10, 13, 17

Sox - 2005

But same

🏀 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 31, 2018, 05:22:29 PM »

Quote from: BagpipingHurler on July 31, 2018, 05:19:25 PM

Sox - 2005

But same

I wish I would've been an adult and appreciated the Sox win more.

TallTitan34 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2018, 05:34:25 PM »

Quote from: PTM + Chartouny = Us on July 31, 2018, 05:17:22 PM

Waiting on Marquette, you got about 51 years left until I pass at the ripe, perfect age of 83.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrZ9L27tA-8

Celtic Truth · « **Reply #5 on:** July 31, 2018, 05:34:37 PM »

I’m a Boston sports fan born in 1995. Winning 10 championships in a 16 year span (2001-2017) with at least one in every major sport is pretty ridiculous

TAMU, Knower of Ball · « **Reply #6 on:** July 31, 2018, 05:52:24 PM »

Born in 1989
Packers in 1997
Packers in 2011

I'm a Red Wings fan so the 4 stanley cups were cool but hockey is easily the Big 4 sport I care about the least. I couldn't even tell you what years they won it but I'm pretty sure the two Packer super bowls bookend them.

Babybluejeans · « **Reply #7 on:** July 31, 2018, 06:39:32 PM »

Born '83:

Orioles (83)
Skins SB (83)
Skins SB (88)
Skins SB (92)

Unfortunately all of the titles got front-loaded in my early childhood. I have but one memory of watching the Skins beat Buffalo in the '92 Super Bowl. A team of mine might win another title some day, but given the state of DC sports (I'm not much of a Caps fan) and Marquette hoops, that day won't be soon.

MU82 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2018, 06:40:42 PM »

As an impressionable kid, I glommed on to winners, so I had a couple right out of the chute: 1972 and 1973 Dolphins and 1972-73 Knicks.

I was a Yankees fan when they won in 1977 and 1978 but had stopped rooting for any professional teams due to my occupation long before they won it again in 1996.

Near misses for the 1984 Dolphins and the 2015 Panthers.

I wasn't a diehard Marquette fan until the year after they won the title. I was a senior in high school the following year, and about a month after I decided to attend, they effen lost to Effen Miami of Effen Ohio ... and I caught shyte from my friends for months!

In reality, my biggest championships were those I got to participate in: the two conference titles for the middle school hoops team I coached (there was no state title or national title, so the conference titles were as far as I could go, and they were the first two in school history), and the two league championships for the softball team I played on. Yep ... whup-de-doo on both ... but those coaching and softball titles were incredibly exhilarating and fun.

The year we went on to win the first basketball title was the year the Panthers went to the Super Bowl. That December, my son asked me, "If you could only have one, would you choose your basketball team winning the title or the Panthers winning the Super Bowl?"

It was an easy choice. As much as I like the Panthers, and even say "we" when I talk about them, I'm not part of the Panthers and I don't mean squat to them. I put a lot of work, sweat and tears into the team I coached; we were a family; I loved those kids. Total no-brainer.

I'd choose Marquette over the Panthers, too. I was (and still am) a Warrior!

Lennys Tap · « **Reply #9 on:** July 31, 2018, 06:51:58 PM »

Marquette - 1977
White Sox - 2005
Bears - 1985 (wasn't a Bear's fan when they won in 1963)
Bulls and Blackhawks whenever

In order of importance.

wadesworld · « **Reply #10 on:** July 31, 2018, 07:19:39 PM »

I can’t imagine a Packers/Brewers fan being a Bulls fan. Or Packers/Bucks fan being a Cubs fan.

Only the Packers for me.

Marquette would be the one I would want most by far, then another Packers SB, then Bucks, then Brewers.

Skitch · « **Reply #11 on:** July 31, 2018, 07:20:10 PM »

Just curious for the couple of you that posted all of your teams are Chicago teams but then also the Packers instead of the Bears. How does that happen?

tower912 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 31, 2018, 07:32:37 PM »

1984 Tigers.
The Pistons Bad Boys.
The Russian 5 Red Wings.

Just celebrated a 19-2 season and a district championship with my son's little league team that I coached. All got together for pizza and a celebration of a magical season. 3 years ago, the core of this team was getting mercied every single game. Good kids and hard work. A team with no drama, no superstars, just a bunch of good players who put the ball in play, ran the bases with reckless abandon, threw strikes and caught the ball. A coach's dream.

So this one will always be on my championship team list.

Galway Eagle · « **Reply #13 on:** July 31, 2018, 07:42:06 PM »

Quote from: Skitch on July 31, 2018, 07:20:10 PM

Just curious for the couple of you that posted all of your teams are Chicago teams but then also the Packers instead of the Bears. How does that happen?

The younger half of my dads siblings were raised in Elkhown, WI not south side of Chicago so most my cousins and aunts and uncles were all excited and I got caught up in it being a 6yr old. Then they went to the Super Bowl the following year again and it was sealed.

That being said I care about football the least of any sport I follow and that includes non big 4 sports as well

mu03eng · « **Reply #14 on:** July 31, 2018, 08:06:22 PM »

Penn State - 1982, 1986(first sports memory ever) and 1994(you will never convince me the voters got that one right)

Packers in 1996 and 2010

That's it so far.

MU82 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 31, 2018, 09:07:40 PM »

Quote from: Skitch on July 31, 2018, 07:20:10 PM

Just curious for the couple of you that posted all of your teams are Chicago teams but then also the Packers instead of the Bears. How does that happen?

I thought the same thing when I read those: "Really? All Chicago teams EXCEPT the Bears?"

Jay Bee · « **Reply #16 on:** July 31, 2018, 09:10:17 PM »

Probably will never be beaten... 1987 Twins.. 13, 7 rows directly behind home plate and the madness that ensued for weeks after.

1991 was cool too, but ‘87. Yeesh.

(Oh, and Lynx noine times)

MerrittsMustache · « **Reply #17 on:** July 31, 2018, 09:16:53 PM »

Cubs - 2016
Bears - 1985
Bulls - 6x
Blackhawks - 3x

11 championships in my 37 years and relatively evenly distributed (lull in the early 00s).

Marquette BB in 2020 will round it out

#UnleashSean · « **Reply #18 on:** July 31, 2018, 09:38:06 PM »

Cubs 2016.

Well my luck is bad.

muwarrior69 · « **Reply #19 on:** July 31, 2018, 09:42:17 PM »

Yankees: 1947, 1949-1953, 1956, 1958, 1961-62, 1977-78, 1996, 1998-2000 and 2009
MU: 1970 NIT and 1977 NCAA
Mets: 1969, 1986
Jets: 1969
Giants: 1956, 1986, 1991 and 2008
Knicks: 1x
Rangers: 2x

I guess I could have thrown in the Islanders and Devils, but have been a New York fan most of my life. I root for the Mets and Jets except when they play the Yanks or the Giants respectively.

CTWarrior · « **Reply #20 on:** July 31, 2018, 09:49:34 PM »

Born in 1962

Lakers 72, 80, 82, 85, 87, 88, 00, 01, 02 - Stopped rooting for them when Kobe ran Shaq off in 05).
Heat 06 (switched to Heat for Wade and Shaq. Stopped rooting for them when James joined)
Don't have an NBA team now. Just root for the former MU guys.

Red Sox 04, 07, 13

I am a Jets fan, but started watching football during the 70 season, so missed the 68 season Super Bowl championship in 1969.

muwarrior69 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 31, 2018, 09:53:14 PM »

Quote from: #UnleashTravis on July 31, 2018, 09:38:06 PM

Cubs 2016.

Well my luck is bad.

I'd say your luck is good. You lived to see them win the WS. As a die hard Yankee fan it is always special to see that kind of season for all those loyal fans who waited so long.

MUEng92 · « **Reply #22 on:** July 31, 2018, 10:07:18 PM »

Cubs 2016
Packers 1997, 2010
Dr. J, I mean Sixers 1983 (1st championship of one of my teams. Deciding game ended 1-2 hours before my 13th birthday)

Bandwagon fandom
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Blackhawks 2010's
Wayne Gretzky, I mean Oilers 1980's

dgies9156 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 31, 2018, 11:28:13 PM »

Born in the 1950s

Packers: 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1996, 2010 Near misses in 1997.

Cardinals 1964, 1967, 1982, 2008, 2011; Near misses in 1968, 1985, 1987, 2004 (sort of), 2013.

Marquette 1977. Near misses in 1974 and 2003.

I'm a Bears season ticket holder and have seen one Super Bowl team since I obtained tickets in 1995. I've been going long enough to remember the 1985 Bears, but I was not a season ticket holder then.

P.S. -- 1985 did not turn out the way we hoped but that home run by Ozzie was something special.

🏀 · « **Reply #24 on:** August 01, 2018, 05:40:25 AM »

Quote from: MU82 on July 31, 2018, 09:07:40 PM

I thought the same thing when I read those: "Really? All Chicago teams EXCEPT the Bears?"

Dem McCaskeys are too cheap and dey fired Da Coach. It's a good thing Mike McCaskey hired those bodyguards in '93, otherwise I dunno. Papa is still rolling in his grave.

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