Last night the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
The Patriots (I think we can consider them a Boston team) won the 2005 Super Bowl.
In between those two victories, the Red Sox have won the World Series (2007) and the Celtics were NBA champs (2008).
It’s good to be a sports fan in Boston. Even without the 2004 Super Bowl and World Series, The Boston metropolitan area has won all four major U.S. sports championships within 6 years, 4 months, and 9 days. Is this the shortest span in which one city has captured all four titles?
Don’t know the answer, but I’ll be impressed by a “city” winning things like this when they start using native-born players instead of people who prostitute themselves out to the highest bidder.
No pro sports teams within a six hour drive of where I was raised so I can’t really relate to the “we” part that some sports fans have…
The Pistons won the title in 2004, were in the finals in 2003, and 2005 (and I think 2006).
The Tigers were in the World Series in 2006 after a LONG time of sucking hard and became good (save one horrible blip a few years ago).
The Lions…
The Red Wings won the Presidents Trophy from 2002 to 2008, titles in 2002 and 2008, made it to the Finals in 2009.
Three out of four here - the Jets won the Super Bowl in January 1969, the Mets won the World Series in October 1969, and the Knicks won the NBA title in April 1970.
:smack: Sorry for bringing up old pains Iggles fans.
Yeah, it doesn’t really count. But even within the same state is not bad.
After a thorough Wiki review, I think Boston now has this record, fwiw. There are likely situations where cities without all four sports have held championships in the sports they do have in a tighter window (Pittsburgh, maybe?).
LA had championships from the Raiders (1984), Dodgers (1981), and Lakers (several) in the early 80s, but the Kings’ best result was Division Finals (is that the second round or the third?) in 1982.
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And the Oakland Raiders (1977), Golden State Warriors (1975), and Oakland A’s (1974) are pretty tightly packed in there.
Pittsburgh wouldn’t be anywhere near the three-sport record. The Pirates and Steelers did win in 1979, but the Pirates haven’t won since, and the Penguins won their first Stanley Cups in 1991-1992 when the Pirates and Steelers had a shot at it but couldn’t get it done.
The big Achilles heel here is the Pirates. If they finish at .500 it will be nothing short of a miracle, and a championship is out of the question.
I’ve said this in other threads and won’t go over the numbers again, but US sports teams haven’t been comprised of “native-born” players since the 19th century. Even the '27 Yankees only had three or four players from NYC (although we tend to forget that since one of their biggest stars, Lou Gehrig, was local-born and bred).
In 1927 New York had a Yankees world series win, a Giants NFL Championship and a Rangers Stanley Cup. The NBA didn’t exist yet, so they didn’t have all 4. Still. 3 in one year is pretty impressive.
Hey no fair. Some of us don’t have teams in all the sports to try and win championships with!
Montreal teams won both the Stanley Cup and Grey Cup in 1977 (Canadiens, Alouettes), 1944 (Montreal HMCS Donnaconna was the football team). That Stanley Cup was the second of 4 consecutive ones.
They also won both cups in 1931 (Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers, with the Habs winning Stanley in 1930 as well).
On a one-year split, Montreal teams won the 1973 Stanley Cup and the 1974 Grey Cup. Three consecutive years: the 1970 Grey Cup and 1969 and 1971 Stanley Cups.
Of course, the Expos never won anything (well, there was that 1981 Division Championship), and we never had a professional basketball team.
More obscure: Habs won the Cup in 93, Impact won the APSL championship in 94. The Impact join the MLS for 2012… I’d love to have 3 parades in 2011-2012!
