An interesting and very entertaining sports list has been revealed in the October issue GQ — The 20 Worst Sports Franchises of All Time.
According to the magazine, all professional sports franchises were considered, active or not. The teams that have been the most frustrating, disappointing, mismanaged and just plain awful throughout sports history got the most votes. Unfortunately for Cleveland, those factors mean the Browns, Indians and Cavs top the list — it doesn’t help the last championship the city held in any sport was before the birth of LeBron James’ mother.
Here are the worst 5 according to GQ:
The MJ-run franchise has been a tragedy and travesty rolled into one — the laughing stock of the NBA. Possibly a return to the “Hornets” name will help their cause? Most likely they just need a new owner.
At one point they were the most meaningless franchise in all of pro sports, only winning two playoff series’ over multiple decades. Blake Griffin and Chris Paul have helped change that culture. A David Stern-blocked trade from the NBA’s Hornets to the Lakers involving Paul also helped make that happen.
An appropriate place for the lovable losers. The last time the northsiders won the pennant we were still celebrating our WWII heroes. It’s been since 1908 they actually won the World Series — that’s right, more than one hundred years. If they ever do win, the Windy City will burn itself down for a second time.
Only team to ever go 0-16 and haven’t won a championship since the NFL was going solo (before the merger) back in the 50s. Have never been to a Super Bowl.
GQ:
Between the Browns, the Indians, and the Cavaliers, Cleveland last celebrated a title four years before LeBron’s mother was born—that’s a combined 152 seasons of futility. James ditched the Cavs not because he was the Whore of Akron but because he was the Oracle of Ohio. In his formative years, he witnessed Cleveland teams suffer The Drive (John Elway beating the Browns in 1987), The Fumble (Earnest Byner sabotaging the Browns in 1988), The Shot (Michael Jordan murdering the Cavs in 1989), and then The Move, when Art Modell decided Cleveland was such a hole he’d rather field his team in Baltimore. James surely knew that if he stayed in Ohio, some kind of ridiculous fate would befall him—The Hangnail, The Cramp, or maybe The Aneurysm. Hence: The Decision.
See GQ’s complete list of 20 here.
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