# Would you like the team you root for to have a long stretch of reaching the postseason? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 5, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-the-team-you-root-for-to-have-a-long-stretch-of-reaching-the-postseason/853202 "2020-05-05T18:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-the-team-you-root-for-to-have-a-long-stretch-of-reaching-the-postseason/853202/41 "2020-05-13T17:38:23Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > It’s both a round number and the time since their last playoff win. I’m not saying their other wins don’t matter, but over a long stretch of time would you prefer 1 championship followed up by irrelevance, or would you prefer to be perennially “in it”? I still don’t understand why you’re saying “1 championship.” The Giants won 2 in recent memory. Do you think of the Patriots as having won 6 Superbowls in this era or 4? It would never occur to me to make a statement along of the lines of “The Patriots have won 4 Supebowls in the past 10 years” since their 6-ring run has all essentially been a single era. Or was, now that Brady’s gone. > [@](#): > > It’s the difference between the Giants and the Yankees lately. The Giants have more recently won championships, but it feels a lot more like they are a mismanaged team that stumbled into the win, while the Yankees haven’t won as recently, but are usually knocking on the door to make a run. Yeah, not winning is a disappointment, but with the Yanks, I’m not giving up on the season a third of the way through. I hear what you’re saying, and don’t fully disagree. But I think there’s a distinctly different experience between something like the Yankees now vs that playoff streak with the Bengals. After the 3rd or 4th straight one-and-done in the playoffs, I don’t think anyone truly believed that the Bengals _could_ win a playoff game. The Yankees could go on a run and it wouldn’t surprise many people. I mean, if you get roughly the same championships either way, I don’t think there’s any question, of course you want more playoff runs. Nobody would pick the Bucs over the Eagles, for example. I’m 50 later this year, and let’s say I’m consciously aware of the NFL by 10. I would choose the past 40 years of the Giants over the Packers without hesitation. Way fewer playoff runs, but double the rings: Two per era instead of one. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-the-team-you-root-for-to-have-a-long-stretch-of-reaching-the-postseason/853202/42 "2020-05-13T18:20:18Z")
I was a die-hard Chicago Cubs fan until they won the World Series. Since then, I doubt I’ve watched more than a few outs, of any baseball team. For me, it was like, the Cubs not winning the World Series was the Cubs’ “Thing.” Once they no longer had there “Thing,” I felt like there was nowhere else for me to go as a Cubs fan. I may yet develop an interest in the Cubs, and baseball, again, but for now I’m all about the soccer. Speaking of soccer, my team, the USMNT, has made the “postseason” (where “postseason” refers to the FIFA World Cup) some number of years out of some other number of years since I’ve been old enough to care. They have not won a (the) championship, and aren’t likely to do so any time soon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-like-the-team-you-root-for-to-have-a-long-stretch-of-reaching-the-postseason/853202.md?page=2)