# Chicago Professional Sports **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 17, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-professional-sports/722762 "2015-06-17T16:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SanDiegoTim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-professional-sports/722762/1 "2015-06-17T16:35:21Z")
With another Stanley cup win, the City is obviously elated. Certainly the owners of the Bears, Cubs & Sox see this. Are they (the owners) feeling the least bit embarrassed over the miserable showings of their teams? Yeah, I know the Cubs are currently having a decent year and the Sox had a great year a decade ago, but over the last couple of decades they all stink. I still have a bit of hope for the Cubs and Sox, but until a new owner takes over the Bears, they’re a .500 team (at best). ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-professional-sports/722762/2 "2015-06-17T16:53:50Z")
Really not a sports fan these past couple of decades, but since say 1980, Chicago has had a boatload of NBA championships, a Superbowl, a world Series (Sox), and numerous Stanley Cups. Have other major markets had significantly better performance across the major sports? Cubs have sucked since the 60s - w/ the rare playoff choke. No worries, the franchise is still a license to print money. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-professional-sports/722762/3 "2015-06-17T17:08:05Z")
Few cities can match having championships in the four major pro sports since the Bears won the Super Bowl. Boston and Los Angeles are the only other ones that come to mind; not even New York can say that (no NBA championship.) Chicago is a very blessed sports town. An interesting exercise would be to even identify all the cities that can say they’ve done it at all, **ever.** Aside from LA, Boston and Chicago, you just have: New York (going back to 1973 for an NBA championship) Philadelphia (last NFL championship in 1960, if we count pre-Super Bowl) Detroit (last NFL championship in 1957, if we count pre-Super Bowl) Um… maybe that’s it, actually. There are a number of other all-four-sport cities/metro areas; Phoenix, Denver, Toronto if you count the CFL, Miami, Dallas, Minneapolis/St. Paul, and Washington, and I may be missing some, but all have never won one or more of the championships. I don’t know how this came to mind but as I was figuring this out two interesting trivia facts jumped to mind; 1. New York City has won the World Series with four different franchises; not only the current Yankees and Mets, but also the departed Giants and Dodgers won World Series titles while in New York. 2. In one eight year from 1949 to 1956, New York teams not only won every World Series, they lost almost all of them too: 1949: New York Yankees defeat Brooklyn Dodgers 1950: New York Yankees defeats Philadelphia Phillies 1951: New York Yankees defeat New York Giants 1952: New York Yankees defeat Brooklyn Dodgers 1953: New York Yankees defeat Brooklyn Dodgers 1954: New York Giants defeat Cleveland Indians 1955: Brooklyn Dodgers defeat New York Yankees 1956: New York Yankees defeat Brooklyn Dodgers In this span 46 World Series games were played, and 42 of them were in the City of New York. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@Thing\_Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_Fish)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-professional-sports/722762/4 "2015-06-17T17:23:21Z")
Should these owners feel more embarrassed about their performance than they would if another team in a completely unrelated sport _wasn’t_ having a great run? I can’t imagine why they should. In the last 10 years the White Sox won a championship and the Bears played in the Super Bowl. The vast majority of teams in their respective sports can’t say that, so if those teams are “miserable” and “stinking”, I think your expectations are grossly unreasonable. The Cubs haven’t put together three good years since the Roosevelt administration, but the current ownership has only been around for a few years and seem to be making a very promising start, so there’s no reason for them to feel embarrassed about their predecessor’s failures, either. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-professional-sports/722762/5 "2015-06-17T18:28:20Z")
> [@SanDiegoTim](#): > > Are they (the owners) feeling the least bit embarrassed over the miserable showings of their teams? Virginia McCaskey, owner of the Bears, certainly is. To quote her son, at the end of last season: > [@](#): > > "She’s pissed off. I can’t think of a 91-year-old woman that that description would apply, but in this case, I can’t think of a more accurate description. > > “She’s been on this Earth for eight of the Bears’ nine championships – and she wants more,” George said. “She feels that it’s been too long since the last one, and that dissatisfaction is shared by her children, her grandchildren and her great grandchildren.” > > “She’s fed up with mediocrity,” George said, seething. “She feels that she and Bears fans everywhere deserve better.” Source: [Virginia McCaskey 'pissed off' with struggling Bears](http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000451685/article/virginia-mccaskey-pissed-off-with-struggling-bears) ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-professional-sports/722762/6 "2015-06-17T18:52:27Z")
I don’t think the success of a team impacts the attitude of owners of other local teams. Sox owners should be embarrassed because they suck this year and they were supposed to be contenders in the AL Central. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2015, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-professional-sports/722762/7 "2015-06-19T13:35:54Z")
[Mrs. McCaskey has nothign to be upset about:](http://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2015/06/17/stanley-cup-chicago-bears-blackhawks-newspaper-headline?xid=si_social) > [@](#): > > The _Korea Times_ sports section printed the team’s celebration photo and an Associated Press recap of the game, but the headline writer got a little confused and led with “Chicago Bears clinch Stanley Cup.”