…in a single year?
By 4 favs I mean the major USA sports,NFL,MLB,NHL and NBA.
I haven’t looked at previous years yet,but i believe it will be this year.
Detroit Red Wings-Stanley Cup Champs
Detroit Pistons-Eastern Conference Finals
Cincinnati Reds-???
St.Louis Rams- Eventual Super Bowl XLIII Champs(you heard it here first)
Need to research what the best year for the 4 of us before this year.
Feel free to manipulate the year to benefit you.
Well, my favorite teams today aren’t necessarily my favorite teams ever.
Still, 1977 was a great year- my favorite teams at that time were the Yankees (still my favorite baseball team, but I don’t follow them nearly as closely), the Oakland Raiders (don’t like them any more), the Knicks (I became a Spurs fan when I moved to Texas) and the Montreal Canadiens (I hardly watch hockey at all any more).
Three of the four won championships in calendar year 1977. And Notre Dame won the national title in January of 1978.
In 2007, the Browns ALMOST made it into the playoffs. The Indians ALMOST made it into the World Series. The Cavs ALMOST won it all.
But…we didn’t.
ETA: Oh yeah, and the Buckeyes lost the BCS that year (January 2008), too.
Thank god fer the Cleveland Hockey team eh?
I grew up in the Philadelphia area. In 1980, when I was an avid 11-year-old sports fan:
The Phillies won the only World Series in the history of the franchise
The Flyers lost (to the Islanders) in the Stanley Cup finals
The 76ers lost (to the Lakers) in the NBA finals
The Eagles lost (to the Raiders) in the Super Bowl.
I moved to Boston in 1992, and now am a big fan of the Boston sports teams. That made 2007 a pretty nice year:
The Patriots lost in the 2007 Super Bowl
The Red Sox won the 2007 World Series
The Celtics are in the finals for the 2007/2008 season
The Bruins – well, they made the playoffs, anyway
(Bonus sport!) The Revolution lost in the 2007 MLS finals
-P
LA Area Sports Fan here…
Baseball:
Dodgers way back in 1988.
Angels a few years ago in 2002.
Basketball:
Lakers also back in 2002. (And hopefully again by next week.) 
Hockey:
Ducks in 2007.
Football:
What’s that? 
And probably last. 
/Go Seahawks
Me, too.
Joe
1988
Dodgers: won the World Series
Lakers: won the NBA Championship
UCLA Football: Bruins finished ranked 6th in the nation and won the Cotton Bowl
Raiders: …well, let’s just stick with my three favorite teams for this poll.
I’m from Buffalo – don’t even ask!
I only really follow baseball and basketball, and generally root for the two NY football teams equally in a disinterested sort of way. Which means 1969 was my year:
Unfortunately I wasn’t born until December of 1970. D’oh!
1986 wasn’t too bad, the Mets won their other World Series that year and the Giants won their first Super Bowl and the Knicks saw Patrick Ewing with Rookie of the Year even if their win-loss record was terrible.
I grew up in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area. My teams were (and are) the Oakland A’s, SF 49’ers, and the Sacramento Kings. I don’t follow hockey.
1989 - The Oakland A’s beat the hated SF Giants in the Bay Bridge Series (which was quite a relief considering how the '88 series ended) and the 49’ers beat the Bengals in Super Bowl XXIII. The…ahem…Kings were 27-55 and, perhaps surprising to some of you, did not make the playoffs.
I was really only interested in baseball and football back in 1969, when the Jets won the Super Bowl and the Mets won the World Series.
My two favorite teams: SF Giants (baseball) and Cal (college football) have *never *made their respective postseasons simultaneously, much less won anything resembling a championship.
I think it was 1973 that the A’s, Warriors and Raiders were simultaneous champions, but I didn’t care.
Just researched a bit
Cincinnati Reds-1990 World Series Champs!
Los Angeles Rams-Lost 1989 NFC Championship game
Detroit Pistons-1989-90 season NBA Champions!
Detroit Red Wings-Lost 1st round 1990-91 season
Slight nit: The Knicks won their championship during the spring of 1970. It was the 1969-1970 season, but the span of time you’re talking about went from January 1969 (the Jets/Colts Super Bowl) to April or May of 1970.
I am a Cleveland fan, so the idea of championships is a difficult concept to grasp. From the ancient history tomes I’ve read, the Cleveland baseball, football and hockey teams all won championships during the year 1948, although the hockey team was a minor league AHL one, (the NHL had only 6 teams at that time).
Hey, dude. You watch out for the Cleveland Barons . Yeah, that’s right… a shark with a fucking monocle. That’s worth, like, four championships right there!
As a Chicagoan there haven’t been many occasions where there’s been universal success for all the franchises in the city.
The Bulls were dominant throughout the 90’s but during that time period the Cubs perennially sucked, the Blackhawks were at the tail end of a run or mediocrity leading to a run of utter suckitude and the Bears spent almost the entire decade in the cellar.
The closest we came to syncing up in that decade was 1998 when the Bulls won their final Championship and the Cubs made the playoffs as a Wild Card in the middle of the Sosa-McGuire homerun chase. The Fighting Illini Basketball team won the Big Ten but lost in the second round of the dance, which is not a very good year by their standards.
Of course 1998 was also the year that the Bulls dynasty ended and the team broke up and the 1998-99 season the team only won 13 games. It started the stretch where Dollar Bill Wirtz tried to kill the Blackhawks and they were the worst team in hockey and missed the playoffs in 8 of 9 seasons. Sosa went on to lose that HR chase and get swept up in the steroid controversy and were swept easily by the Braves in the first round.
The 80s were similar in that the Bears were dominant throughout the decade but the other teams were inconsistent at best. In 1985 the Bears won the Super Bowl in legendary fashion but the rest of the teams were bad, the Illini basketball team made the tourney and the football team made the Peach Bowl, but neither is a particularly impressive feat.
1989 is a better example even though there were no championships. The Bulls bookended that year with 2 trips to the Conference Finals where we lost to the Champion Pistons and hired Phil Jackson. The Bears had their last great season of that run losing in the Conference Championship to the Champion 49ers. The Cubs made one of the rare trips to the playoffs after winning the division and Maddox winning the Cy Young. The Blackhawks also bookended the year with trips to the Conference Championship, losing both. The Fighting Illini hoops team made their famous run to the Final Four with the Flying Illini squad and the Illini football team was second in the Big Ten and beat Virginia in the Citrus Bowl.
Missed the edit window, but bolstering the 1998 season is the MLS Chicago Fire in which they won the MLS Championship and US Open Cup in their first season of existence. But, lets face it…that’s just soccer.
Uh… yeah, not sure about that decade thing,from 1980-1989 they were 92-60,5-4 in the playoffs.
Take out 85 and 86 they are a very average 63-57,2-3 in the playoffs,with 4 losing seasons and a .500 season.
They did good from 84-88 though.