# How many championships have "your teams" won since you started following them? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 12, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967 "2014-04-12T22:45:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/41 "2014-04-14T20:05:42Z")
Yankees 5 NY Giants 4 NJ Devils 3 The Mets win win probably be discounted by the judges but I do root for them when they are not playing the Yankees. Same with the Jets but that obviously doesn’t change the count. I was old enough to remember watching the 70s yankees wins but I’m being honest and saying I wasn’t quite old enough to care. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/42 "2014-04-14T20:58:18Z")
Red Sox (fan since 1969): 2004, 2007, 2013 = 3 Bruins(fan since 1969): 1970, 1972, 2010 = 3 Patriots(fan since 1969): 2001, 2003, 2004 = 3 Celtics(fan since 1969): 1974, 1976, 1981, 1984, 1986, 2008 = 6 UConn Men’s BB(fan since 1999): 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014 = 4 UConn Women’s BB(fan since 1999): 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 = 8 Alabama FB(fan since 2010): 2011, 2012 = 2 Professional = 15 Pro and College = 29 ---
**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:** [April 14, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/43 "2014-04-14T22:14:29Z")
Green Bay Packers (fan since ~1975): 2 ('96 and '10). I was alive for Lombardi’s final three NFL championships (and the first two Super Bowls), but not conscious of such things. 🙂 Milwaukee Brewers (fan since ~1975): 0. One WS appearance ('82), but lost to the danged Cards. Chicago Blackhawks (fan since ~1990): 2 ('10, '13). University of Wisconsin (fan since ~1983): 0 in football or men’s basketball, although both programs have been much better in the past 10-20 years than they were when I was a student there in the 1980s. The hockey program has won the NCAA title three times since I started following the school ('83, '90, '06), but I only tangentially follow the team. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/44 "2014-04-14T23:19:40Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Bears: 1 > Cubs: 0 > Hawks: 2 > Bulls: 6 > > 9 total Ditto. For myself I’d throw in the White Sox from ~1980-1990, I was a misguided youth and sometimes baseball bigamist, but I saw the light long before I could have counted that WS as one of “mine”. Also have been hardcore for the Illini hoops and football teams and don’t have squat to show for it, though compared to the Cubs they’ve been downright rewarding. ETA: Would be interesting to do this thread as a +/- number. In other words, you pick your #1 rival of your chosen teams and count that teams championships as a -1. Things get pretty painful in a hurry for Chicagoans. Those Red Wings, Packers, Cardinals and Pistons titles add up. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/45 "2014-04-14T23:33:47Z")
I embraced the Dodgers and Angels in 1986. Dodgers won in 1988 Angels won in 2002 Been a Reds fan my whole life. Championships in 74’, 76’ and 90’. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/46 "2014-04-15T01:06:13Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > ETA: Would be interesting to do this thread as a +/- number. In other words, you pick your #1 rival of your chosen teams and count that teams championships as a -1. I like that idea! ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/47 "2014-04-16T02:47:21Z")
I’ve been pretty lucky. Not only have my favorite teams won, but I have lived in areas where the prominent teams have won as well. But as a Pittsburgh fan, which started around 1969-1970 i have Pirates - 2 Word Series Wins, 1971, 1979 Steelers - 6 Super Bowl Wins, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 2005, 2008 Penguins - 3 Stanley Cup Wins, 1991, 1992, 2009 Pitt Panthers, Football National Champions 1976. That is 12 championships for my teams. ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/48 "2014-04-16T03:26:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Mets: twice, in 69 and 86. > Jets: Once, in 1969. > Union College NCAA Division I Hockey: Once. Today. **RealityChuck** - Congratulations on your Union College championship! > [@Moonchild](#): > > I’m going out on a limb and predict the Cavs will get one. Dan Gilbert may seem like a prick, but he’s a passionate owner and not afraid to open his wallet. And although unlikely, Lebron _could_ return. With just a little luck… oh wait, sorry. :o That is a mighty weak, trembling limb. Hang on! > [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > I only follow baseball. 3 WS wins. Also 4 WS losses. And 2 more WS wins when I was too young to be a fan. **Ulf** , what team? Don’t make me look it up! ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/49 "2014-04-16T03:44:13Z")
> [@Stink Fish Pot](#): > > **Ulf** , what team? Don’t make me look it up! But guessing’s fun! Gotta be the Cardinals. Championships in 1982, 2006 and 2011. Losses in 1985, 1987, 2004 and 2013. The two he was too young for were 1964 and 1967. How’d I do? ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/50 "2014-04-16T14:27:53Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > But guessing’s fun! > > Gotta be the Cardinals. Championships in 1982, 2006 and 2011. Losses in 1985, 1987, 2004 and 2013. The two he was too young for were 1964 and 1967. > > How’d I do? Perfect!! I do remember the '68 Series, having discovered baseball and the Cardinals a couple months earlier, but I can’t say I was truly following it. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/51 "2014-04-16T14:53:29Z")
Edmonton Oilers: 5 Stanley Cups Saskatchewan Roughriders: 3 Grey Cups Toronto Blue Jays (though I’m no longer much of a baseball fan, I was passionately so at the time): 2 World Series ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/52 "2014-04-16T14:54:34Z")
Arsenal have had three Premiership titles, four FA Cups, and two League Cups. Plus the Invincibles season. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/53 "2014-04-16T14:59:03Z")
Well, I wouldn’t say that I follow any teams. I’m not a dedicated fan of any. So, we’ll just go with my home-town teams…I live in Kansas City, so ZERO! And as I type that, I remembered that I’m wrong…Sporting Kansas City are the MLS champions. One! ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/54 "2014-04-16T15:17:53Z")
Red Sox : 2004, 2007, 2013 = 3 Bruins: 2010 = 1 Patriots: 2001, 2003, 2004 = 3 Celtics: 1981, 1984, 1986, 2008 = 4 UMaine Hockey: 1993, 1999 = 2 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/55 "2014-04-16T16:28:27Z")
The Astros have won a couple of pennants, but have made it to the World Series exactly once. They should have changed their name from Astros to Armadillos, because they went to sleep at home and got killed on the road. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/56 "2014-04-16T20:04:31Z")
I started following the Pittsburgh Steelers somewhere in the mid-70s. I was 7 when they won Super Bowl IX in 1975, so naturally I decided to back a winner…since I can’t recall exactly what year I really started paying attention, I’ll split the difference on their 1970’s success, and say the I’ve enjoyed 4 Super Bowls (1978, 1979, 2005, & 2008). The San Francisco Giants finally came through in 2010 & 2012, so that’s 2 World Series. I’m still waiting on the Sacramento Kings and the Jan Jose Sharks. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/57 "2014-04-16T20:13:48Z")
14 (5 teams) ---
**Author:** ![TheBoltEater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheBoltEater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoltEater)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2014, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/58 "2014-04-18T17:48:56Z")
Well, I’m from San Diego, so whiny Chicago fans can kiss my rear end. “Oh my poor Cubs haven’t won in forever! My dear Grandpa died never having seen them win. Wah! Someone hand me my Walter Payton Super Bowl jersey to cry into while I watch the Bulls 3-Peat Champions DVD. No, not that DVD, the other 3-Peat Champions DVD, duh!” Red Sox fans were even worse until they finally won. Don’t talk to me about your lifetime of suffering in one sentence, then try to figure out which of your 17 Celtics NBA titles was your favorite in the next. But I do live in Orange County now, and have been a Ducks fan since Day 1, so thankfully my entire life’s spent watching sports is no longer completely title-less. Since I became a fully aware sports fan in the mid- 80s… San Diego Chargers - 0 San Diego Padres - 0 Anaheim Ducks - 1 (Thank you Teemu! You too Giguere.) Grand Total - 1 But at least I also went to UC Irvine, and I’m a huge college hoops fan, so someday I might be able to tell my grandkids that we actually _played_ in the NCAA Tournament. Not won it, just played in it. 'Cause we haven’t done that yet either. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/59 "2014-04-19T17:27:39Z")
Dodgers since 1955 (we came out here in 1952 when I was three years old) six: 1955 (in Brooklyn), 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988 L. A. Rams: unknown L. A. Angels: one: 2002 L. A. Lakers: unknown L. A. Kings: unknown L. A. Blades (AHA): Forget it! ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967/60 "2014-04-19T17:33:28Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Alabama has 8 in my lifetime, but the one in 1965 was shortly after I was born, so the first one I remember was 1973. Guess that makes 7 since I’ve been following them. > > The New Orleans Saints have only 1, but how sweet it was… Another Clevelander here so since 1970 I’ve had no pro titles, but I do follow Notre Dame, so I’ve had 3 titles for them, 1973, 1977 and 1988. Alabama lost the National Championship to Notre Dame in 1973 and yet 'Bama is still in denial about that and still counts it as a title. Weird. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-championships-have-your-teams-won-since-you-started-following-them/685967.md?page=4)