Shakenbake Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Six Facets of Misery Historic despair: Has your team's history been so bleak it sells officially-licensed paper sacks to wear on your head? Recent despair: Do you start looking forward to getting the top pick in the draft … during August two-a-days? Do you spend the last weeks of the season rooting for your team to lose so it can clinch the draft rights to Reggie Bush? Historic pain: How many season-ending defeats have left you shaking like you just spent an entire afternoon trapped in an elevator with Drew Rosenhaus? Recent pain: Is the anguish from a big loss so recent that you haven't repaired the TV screen yet? Intangible misery: While subjective, this category takes into account misery (as well as apathy) not necessarily reflected in the won-loss record or on "Madden 2006." Misery outlook: Are you preparing for the next round of the playoffs or already getting ready to boo the team's first-round draft pick? LINK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vet Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 This captures my life story as a Jets fan fairly accurately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSab Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 All of the above! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexgaddis Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 This captures my life story as a Jets fan fairly accurately. 1257957[/snapback] Hey, things are looking up, I hear Mike Tice is interviewing for the HC vacancy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rattsass Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Well that's the final slap in the face. Now ESPN writers are bottom feeding to steal ideas from Huddle writers. I've written the Misery Index every week for 6 years. It's my schtick. It's all I have in the world. Sonsofbitches. I smell a lawsuit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gdawg Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Well that's the final slap in the face. Now ESPN writers are bottom feeding to steal ideas from Huddle writers. I've written the Misery Index every week for 6 years. It's my schtick. It's all I have in the world. Sonsofbitches. I smell a lawsuit... 1258152[/snapback] Hey, at least if they steal ideas from the Huddle maybe ESPN will start writing better articles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perchoutofwater Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 I beg to differ with Dallas being rated the least miserable. When you've gone to the playoffs 60% of the time, and won the Superbowl on average once every 8 years, and appeared in the Superbowl on average once every 5 years it hurts when you don't make the playoffs. It's much easier to be a Eagles fan, because they have never won a Superbowl and don't know the joy of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDFFFreak Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 so true... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PantherDave Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 If they snake "From the CrockPot" I will sue(or sell for serious Disney $$$). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Scorp Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 5. Minnesota Vikings Forget about the four Super Bowl losses, Korey Stringer, the Herschel Walker trade, the missed field goal in the 1999 NFC championship game, missing the playoffs after starting the 2003 season 6-0, Mike Tice scalping the Super Bowl tickets, the Whizzinator, the Love Boat cruise, the move to the Metrodome, Jim Marshall's wrong-way run and all those Fran Tarkenton infomercials -- what STILL really ticks off Minnesota fans is the knowledge, the absolute knowledge, that the Vikings would have gone to the Super Bowl (and won it this time, dammit!) if that darn referee had only gotten it right and called offensive pass interference on Drew Pearson during Roger Staubach's Hail Mary pass in the 1975 playoffs. @#&%! @#&%! @#&%!!! True, True! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egret Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 The Lions can't even come in the top three for a misery index. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Dick Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 If they snake "From the CrockPot" I will sue(or sell for serious Disney $$$). 1258258[/snapback] I got your back on this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrograde assault Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 I beg to differ with Dallas being rated the least miserable. When you've gone to the playoffs 60% of the time, and won the Superbowl on average once every 8 years, and appeared in the Superbowl on average once every 5 years it hurts when you don't make the playoffs. It's much easier to be a Eagles fan, because they have never won a Superbowl and don't know the joy of it 1258202[/snapback] Dam-n thats poetic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Furd Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 The Lions can't even come in the top three for a misery index. 1258754[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rajncajn Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 2. New Orleans SaintsForgive us for going off on a rant here, but if the NFL has so much darn money, shouldn't commissioner Paul Tagliabue take some responsibility, show some true leadership and really show a united way for the NFL? Hey, it's nice to promote charitable causes with those tear-jerking commercials, but how about actually doing something that really makes a difference? After fleecing communities of literally billions to build unnecessary stadiums, the NFL should do its part to rebuild New Orleans by paying for every dime of a new stadium. Then either subsidize Tom Benson enough money to shut him up about moving the Saints, or buy him out and have the league run the team until it's ready for another owner. New Orleans has suffered enough -- it doesn't need the richest and most controlling league in the world adding to its problems. *sniff*Brought a tear to my eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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