Friday, May 25, 2007
Kick 'Em While They're Down: A Website Devoted to Philadelphia's Hefty Championship Drought
Warning: Philadelphia fans do not read the following article.
But for everyone else the following site is too hysterical for me not to share with you. The site, Phillysucks.com, has a counter, which counts in realtime the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds since the Eagles last won their NFL Championship in 1960. 16,951 days really is a long time without a Super Bowl victory! Less impressive Flyers, Phillies and Sixers counters also exist on the site but at 11674, 9712 and 8760 respective days without titles, it's almost but not quite as depressing as the drought Eagles' fans have experienced. Looking at this whole ordeal in general though, I am actually amazed Philadelphia has as many sports fans as they do. At this point you have to wonder if these fans enjoy losing, I mean it's all they know, right?
But the most comical aspect of the site isn't even the counter, but the hate mail the site receives, which the owner of the site has gracefully decided to post online for the enjoyment of all. Some of these are real brutal, and way too inappropriate even for this site, but certainly worth checking out.
When a Philly sports team finally does win something, assuming it happens again, it will be quite an experience to see how they go about celebrating such a feat. They haven't won in so long, do they even know what to do or how to embrace it? I imagine it would be the equivalent of me sneaking into the home of my old-aged, stubborn, unwilling to technologically progress grandma and replacing her record player with an Ipod. It won't be pretty.
6 Comments:
If or when the cities of Philly or Cleveland ever win a professional sports title, the governor will have to call in the national guard
Philly sucks!
I love philly, but I can't say I see a title coming anytime soon. I've added your site to our links list. Could you possibly do the same? Ours is http://sportstalkdaily.blogspot.com/
thanks,
jake lloyd
I am not amused by the content of this internet post.
"I imagine it would be the equivalent of me sneaking into the home of my old-aged, stubborn, unwilling to technologically progress grandma and replacing her record player with an Ipod. It won't be pretty."
That is a horrible, horrible analogy.
Well that was definately worth a look! Haha...hilarious. I'll hafta show that to my blogmate ming01. He's a bigtime Eagles fan.
Go Pack
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