Philadelphia Ranked 7th Among Most Cursed Sports Cities In America
By Ray Boyd
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The New York Times released a list of the most cursed sports cities in America and Philadelphia was ranked 7th on the list of 13 cities.
The study to account factual data such as the number of total seasons among major franchises since the last championship. It also recognized less quantifiable data such as heartbreaking losing moments.
The data that landed Philadelphia the 7th spot on the list centered mostly on the four major team's heartbreaking style to losing. The Sixers, Phillies, Flyers and Eagles have reached the final four of their sport 22 percent of the time over the last 50 years. That number is better than every city with two or more teams with the exception of Boston.
The problem is, Philadelphia's teams have reached the big stage, but come up short.
According to the study, 19 percent of Philadelphia's seasons since 1965 have ended with a final four appearance and no title to show for it.
The piece also cited the gloomy state of Philadelphia sports currently pointing to the fact that none of the teams have made the playoffs in their most recent season and that three of the teams (Flyers, Sixers, Phillies) do not have clear signs that point to great success in the near future.
Philadelphia sports has seen a total of 27 seasons since the last title in 2008 from the Phillies. The closest call since then was the 2010 Flyers who lost to the Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup.
No one would say it's easy to be a Philadelphia sports fans, but this study made that fact painstakingly clear.
It's certainly hard, but fans in this town do not have it the hardest.
The cities ahead of Philadelphia on the list were 6. Minneapolis-St. Paul, 5. Washington, 4. San Diego, 3. Buffalo, 2. Atlanta and 1. Cleveland.
Cleveland will look to ease their pain of being the most cursed city by winning the 2015 NBA Finals in which their Cavaliers are underdogs to the Golden State Warriors.
The rest of the list includes 8. Phoenix, 9. Oakland, 10. Kansas City, 11. Houston, 12. Cincinnati and 13. Seattle.
