I don’t think it possible to have a worse sports year than 2008. It was an awful year for any team to have me as a fan.
It began in the spring when the Lobo Basketball team, once again, was only futile in any attempt to gain the NCAA tournament. It is sad anyway when you measure success just by getting into a tournament, even if you never have a chance to win. I wonder what it is like to root for a team that has a shot at the final four.
Of course the Jazz stumbled early in the playoffs but my longtime team, the Lakers made the finals, only to lose to the hated Boston Celtics. This year may be different. We must wait and see.
In Baseball, the Yankees got off to a slow start and never sped up. The last year in the House That Ruth Built was the first year in a decade that the Yankees didn’t make the playoffs. At least the Red Sox didn’t go anywhere either.
When fall came around and football started the Lobos got off to a slow start losing their first two before picking up and beating Arizona. After that, it was downhill, losing to both Utah and BYU and congratulating themselves on close games. With a final 4 win season the blow came when head football coach Rocky Long hung it up.
The Broncos, with a mediocre team beset with injury, led their division from week one, only to collapse in the final three games to spend another January at home. Then the unthinkable happened. Another coach bit the dust.
Here is hoping for a better 2009.
Oh! One more. I was home at thanksgiving when my old High School Football team went to the state championship game with an unblemished record. They lost and now hold the record for the school that has lost the state championship game more than any other school. What a record. (They did win once, back in the 1950's)
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picking better teams would help - have you considered cricket or soccer? maybe rugby's your game.
Man, what did Boston do to you? Did you have a bad layover there once?
This is why you should become a Utes fan.
Using that logic Sean, I guess I would be a Gator fan. Why not go all the way to number one. The last two years we would both be BYU fans? I don't think so. And 10 years without a playoff win, when do you desert the broncos?
Red Sox did nothing - wracked by injuries they made to the league championship & almost pulled it out - My Celtics did win, gotta love the `lobos & my Giants were Superbowl Champs, the Bruins are on the rise & the house that Ruth built was "No No Nannet!"
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