Detroit Lions, 1957 NFL Champions, baby! Woo! In your face, Jim Brown!
(It sucks, actually. I voted for the first option.)
I wonder how influenced people’s answers are by their favored team’s recent history.
I, for instance, chose option one, but my favorite team is the NJ Devils… a team that’s made the playoffs 19 out of the past 20 seasons and won three Stanley Cups in that time, but is currently on a run of three straight first round playoff series losses to lower seeded teams.
If I were, say, a fan of a team like the Florida Panthers or the Houston Texans, I have to imagine just winning the big one once would be the more attractive option.
As a Cubs fan, I’d be happy with either… That said, the 1984 & 2003 NLCS debacles took years off my life. To be honest, in retrospect I’d just as soon that they missed the playoffs altogether those years than rip out my heart. I just want one frickin’ WS championship for the Cubs in my lifetime. Not sure it’s gonna happen.
They have to win the championship at least once every 10 years, even if they’re the cellar dwellers the other 9 years.
I can’t imagine being a Philly or Buffalo fan where the team loses the conference championship or superbowl 4 years in a row.
Heh you should settle for less, like a Padres fan. I think they made the WS once, ever, and the fans still appreciate that. 
Twice, 1984 - of course, beating the Cubs - and 1998.
I went for the consistency. I really, really hope to see a Dodger championship as an adult. But it may not happen. And in the meanwhile, six months out of every year is a really long time to watch my team languish at mediocre or worse. As a partial season-ticket holder, life is going to be much more exciting for half the year if my team is always contending, even if it always leads to disappointment.
Of course, if they turned into the Buffalo Bills, I might feel differently.
I think the more interesting question is which is the better team?
What about a player? This comes up a lot in discussions of all time greats. “He was never the best player in any given year, how could be be the best ever?!”
Well, I’ve weighed on that one before too. In my opinion, having watched virtually every game for both teams, many in person, the 2004 St. Louis Cardinals were way, way better than the 2006 team. The fact that they didn’t win the WS changes nothing about that.
It was also probably my favorite team to support, and one bad week in October can’t take away the joy and excitement of winning 105 regular season games, and watching 3 potential future HoFers (with a 4th borderline case showing up late) tear up the opposition.
I’ll throw in (as an Astros fan) that I think the 2005 Cardinals were a better team than the Astros that year, and that the 2005 Astros weren’t the best Astros team of their 1997-2005 run ('98 was the best, by far).
Yeah, those are both probably true statements. That 2005 playoff series will always make me smile though, even though the Cards lost. Just for the mental video of Pujols destroying Lidge to win Game 5… 
Too bad Oswalt was overpowering in Game 6 (last game at Old Busch Stadium - at least I got to be there).