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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!