How many crowns do your sports teams have?

[Bo Diddley]

When your present situation sucks, it's time to look back on how your teams have done all-time. From this perspective, my teams have had some great results over the years. 9 is a magic number.

BYU - 1 Crown - 1984 Champions
KC Royals - 2 Crowns - 1985, 2015 World Series Champions (Like clockwork, every 30 years!)
Steelers - 6 Crowns - 1975, 1976, 1979, 1980, 2006, 2009 (13 years? It's time to make another run!)

[Paperback Writer]

Autumn can be a great time of year when your college team is in the run for a conference or national title, your NFL team is headed to the play-offs, and/or your MLB team is competing in the post season. And there are years where none of that is happening - "present situation sucks". Lately, been doing a lot of looking back.

Just counting crowns during my lifetime:
BYU (1): 1984
Nebraska (5): 1970. 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997
Dallas Cowboys (5): 1971, 1977, 1992, 1993, 1995
Boston Red Sox (4): 2004, 2007, 2013, 2018

[PaloAltoCougar]

Putting aside cross country and ballroom dancing, my teams (BYU, Warriors, Giants, A's, and 49ers) collectively have only slightly more crowns than I do, a fact for which my dentist is very thankful.

[RC Vikings]

Putting aside cross country and ballroom dancing, my teams (BYU, Warriors, Giants, A's, and 49ers) collectively have only slightly more crowns than I do, a fact for which my dentist is very thankful.

Other than Boston, I can't think of another city that's had a better run than the Bay Area this last twenty years or so.

[Clark Addison]

Only counting those in my lifetime:

BYU: 1 (1984)
Cubs: 1 (2016)
Bears: 1 (1985)
Bulls: 6 ('90-'93, ''95-'98)
Blackhawks: 3 ('10, '13, '15)

I've had fewer than some on here, but I have no real complaints. Though the Cubs and Bears have only one championship each, each of those seasons was so incredible that they make up for a lot. For any Chicagoan between the ages of, say 45 and 85, the '85 Bears are a shared religious experience that we can instantly bond over. It is hard to overstate how much that team was and still is loved by the city.

I had a BYU affinity from an early age, but the 1984 national championship game was (IIRC) the first one I had ever seen on TV. Some guys in the ward rented a meeting room at the local Residence Inn to watch it, since so few people had ESPN at the time (I certainly didn't). I had gone to one live game when a bunch of the ward went to watch Marc Wilson spank Wisconsin in 1980 when I was a wee lad, but that was the extent of my BYU football experience. My father was a Ute grad, and while he had no particular animosity toward BYU, he definitely wasn't dragging me to the church to watch games on satellite.

The Jordan years were obviously awesome as a Bulls fan, though most of it happened when I was not in Chicago.

I am a hockey fan, but it falls far below the big three sports, so I enjoyed the Hawks' run last decade, but Funk probably enjoyed it more than I did.

[BigFatMeanie]

BYU: 1

I got no other teams. I didn't grow up in a city with professional sports except for the Jazz, and they've got zero crowns.

[smokymountainrain]

in my lifetime. byu 1 (1984), orioles 1 (1983), jazz 0, browns 0.

so i was 10 when the O's won the WS and 11 when BYU won their NC, so naturally i thought this sports fan thing should be pretty cool over the course of my life. winning titles is fun stuff.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Other than Boston, I can't think of another city that's had a better run than the Bay Area this last twenty years or so.

It's been a nice run, and I've been lucky that "my" teams throughout my lifetime have been better than average overall. Still, I've never gotten over my greatest sports heartbreak--when Willie McCovey lined out to Bobby Richardson in Game 7 of the 1962 World Series. It's the only time I've truly cried after a game (I was 10), although BYU has brought me close to tears on occasion... After this thread has run its course, I'd be interested in hearing the greatest sports heartbreaks of others.

[Paperback Writer]

in my lifetime. byu 1 (1984), orioles 1 (1983), jazz 0, browns 0.

so i was 10 when the O's won the WS and 11 when BYU won their NC, so naturally i thought this sports fan thing should be pretty cool over the course of my life. winning titles is fun stuff.

I'm curious why anyone would pick the Browns. When I was 10-11, I lived not far from Cleveland and there was some peer pressure to become a Browns and Indians fan but I resisted. Soon thereafter, family moved from Ohio.

[Northwestcoug]

It's a good thing triple D isn't here anymore, else he'd excoriate me for my bandwagon fanness:

Steelers (4 while I was a fan, dropped off their bandwagon after their 70-80's run). Living in Wyoming at the time, so the Steelers were as good as any team to root for.
BYU (1). I still remember the near-universal rooting and celebrating in our small Wyoming ward. I dropped off soon after, but hey, I'm back!
Sixers (1, again only counting while I was an 'official' fan). Absolutely loved that team in the early 80's, and by extension hated the Celts and Lakers.
Patriots (6). My first year in the Boston area was 2001. That was an awesome run. Never went to a game, but I did watch a practice!
Red Sox (4). Couldn't have cared less about baseball before we moved to Boston. But one of my attendings took each 1st year resident to a home game. I was hooked after that. My fandom only increased in 2004 when a fellow resident from NYC haughtily chuckled after game 4 of the ALCS, 'congratulating' the Sox for winning a single game, and then proceeded to eat So. Much. Crow. with each improbable win. Still root for Francona to win whenever I can. Mrs. NWC became even more of a fan, going to a playoff game last year without me.

[Omaha 680]

Counting only ones I remember because I was a fan and alive and actively cheering them on:

BYU Football (1) - last one 1984
Nebraska Football (3) - last one 1997
NY Islanders (0) - I bandwagoned them living in Omaha a few years after their four Stanley cup wins in a row and they haven't won since
LA Dodgers (2)

We cheered for the Bulls at my house growing up but I no longer claim them because I was clearly cheering for Jordan and stopped caring after he retired the second time.

[Copelius]

BYU (1)
NYY (5) during my fandom. I was just a bit young for the 70's titles and of course missed out on the 20 prior to 1970. Story of my fandom in Ellis Island.
Raiders (2). Not counting 1977, see above, and not sure I would count any future championships. I was a fan in part due to Marc Wilson and in part because of the obnoxiousness of Denver fans while growing up in Colorado.
I used to watch the NBA, but never gravitated to a team, rooting for players more than teams.

[Bo Diddley]

in my lifetime. byu 1 (1984), orioles 1 (1983), jazz 0, browns 0.

so i was 10 when the O's won the WS and 11 when BYU won their NC, so naturally i thought this sports fan thing should be pretty cool over the course of my life. winning titles is fun stuff.

Ouch! smr, you seem to care about sports as much as anyone. You're certainly knowledgeable. But the sports gods have not smiled on you very often.

[smokymountainrain]

I'm curious why anyone would pick the Browns. When I was 10-11, I lived not far from Cleveland and there was some peer pressure to become a Browns and Indians fan but I resisted. Soon thereafter, family moved from Ohio.

i was a bernie kosar fan at about that same age. when he was drafted, i adopted them as my team, they had the good run with him in the mid-late 80s and it's been misery since.

[smokymountainrain]

Ouch! smr, you seem to care about sports as much as anyone. You're certainly knowledgeable. But the sports gods have not smiled on you very often.

yeah, i basically have no idea what it's like to have my team win it all. i don't remember back that far and certainly didn't fully appreciate those championships as a 10 year old.