New York Mets: 1969 & 1986
New York Jets: 1969
Technically, I favor the Rangers and Knicks, but stopped paying attention by the 80s.
I’m not quite as old as Telemark; I’d say I’ve been a fan of these teams since the late 70’s. But long enough to have caught all these championships.
Due to relocation I’ve also become a fan of the Tennessee Titans in the last decade or so. Not much to celebrate there though…
Colts: Super Bowl Champions 2006
Other teams: Pacers, Nationals, Indiana Hoosiers, Kent State Golden Flashes
The Blue Jays in 1992 and 1993.
The Raptors and Senators haven’t won yet, and I don’t really have a football team I can honestly say I’ve been emotionally invested in.
Wait, WHAT? Newcastle got too full of themselves, but you stuck with the Red Sox? Does not compute.
Anyway:
Pittsburgh Steelers (fan birth-late 80s) 1974, 1975, 1979, 1980 (though I barely remember the first two; 1979 was the first year I actively watched sports)
Pittsburgh Pirates (birth-late 80s) 1979 (it was a very good year)
San Francisco 49ers (late 80s-mid 00s) 1988, 1989
Chicago Cubs (2004-present) 2016
San Antonio Spurs - 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014
Dallas Mavericks - 2011
A lot of Almosts, and lots of heartbreaks, with my teams. Patience certainly is a virtue!
[ul]
[li]Nebraska Cornhuskers (Dad is from there, so birth) 1994, 1995, 1997[/li][li]Red Sox (1980 my first little league team) 2004 2007 2013[/li][li]Rams (1979 Picked out a stocking cap) 1999[/li][li]Dolphins (1980 gym suit not available for Rams) none[/li][li]Kansas Jayhawks (1990, since Nebraska doesn’t have a basketball team) 2008[/li][/ul]
Somerset County Cricket Club - never won championship but came close a few times recently
I was a Houston Oiler fan way back in 1959 when they were in the old AFL before joining the NFL. I was a high school football trainer and the Houston Oiler trainer Bobby Brown was my instructor. I was a Houston Oiler fan when the best QB in the business was the QB for Houston, George Blanda and the coach was Sid Giilman both have passed away, but not forgotten.
The Oilers won two AFL championships before joining the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL Merger. In 1999, the Titans played their most memorable season since joining the NFL, when they made it all the way to Super Bowl XXXIV, but they fell to the Kurt Warner-led St. Louis Rams. That game came within a about two feet of being the first and only tied game in Super Bowl history.
I became a San Diego Charger fan back in 1977 when I moved to San Diego.
The AFL and the National Football League (NFL) merged before the 1970 season, and in 34 years since then, the Chargers have made seven trips to the playoffs and three appearances in the AFC Championship game. At the end of the 1994 season, the Chargers faced the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX and fell 49-26.
Love does not see the blemishes … I am and always will be a San Diego Charger fan unless they move to LA that is. Then I will have to reconsider.
I also grew up in Waco and have been a Baylor University fan since 1956. I remember telling Coach Grant Teaff that his team was going to go to the Cotton Bowl back in 1971. He of course looked at me like I was crazy. Three (3) years later the Baylor Bears played in their first Cotton Bowl. I still love football and the Baylor Bears.
Baylor won the SWC conference in 1924 and again in 1974 under the leadership of third year head coach Grant Teaff.
I remember when the University of Texas came over and stole our mascot a little bear cub and when the bear fought back they killed it.
What a sad day that was right before the game (we lost).
Green Bay Packers: 1966, 1967 (though I was far too young to be aware of these), 1996, 2010
Milwaukee Brewers: none (close but no cigar in 1982)
University of Wisconsin: hockey in 1973, 1977, 1981, 1983, 1990, 2006
Chicago Blackhawks: 2010, 2013, 2015
Milwaukee Braves 1957 (They piped the radio broadcast into all the classrooms of my grade school.)
Packers 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1996, 2010
Milwaukee Bucks 1971
Born in 1994 so… (dates listed are for the year the teams won the championship).
Major Teams - World Championships:
Chicago Blackhawks '10, '13, '15 (3 Championships)
Chicago Bulls '96-'98 (3 Championships)
Chicago Fire '98 (1 Championship)
Chicago White Sox '05 (1 Championship)
Minor Teams - World Championships
Chicago Bandits (Women’s Softball) '08, '11, '15-'16 (4 Championships)
Chicago Bliss (Women’s Gridiron) '13-'14, '16 (3 Championships (One Lingerie Bowl Cup, Two Legends Cups)
Chicago Rush (Arena Football - Now Defunct) - '06 (1 Championship- ironically won in Arena Bowl XX. 20? Hmm…where have I heard that number before?)
Chicago Wolves '98, '00 (Turner Cups), '02, '08 (2 Calder Cups, 4 Championships, Total)
I was also going to say CM Punk and list out all of his accomplisments, but we’re talking teams, so I can’t do that.
My father, born in 1950, has more experiences with teams winning, the Blackhawks in '61, the Bulls in '91-'93 (Three championships), the Bears in '86, the Sting (Indoor Soccer) in '81, and '84, and that’s probably about it.
Geelong (AFL) 1963, 2007, 2009, 2011.
NSW (cricket) 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1993, 1994, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2014
Blackpool Football club (real british football) Nothing in recent history, other than The worst owners in football award. (really)
Boston Red Sox 2004, 2007, 2013
New England Patriots 2001, 2003, 2004, 2014
Boston Celtics 1981, 1984, 1986, 2008
Boston Bruins 2011
UMaine Hockey 1993, 1999
University of Alabama football: 8 (1973, 1978, 1979, 1992, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015)
February 22nd, 1980 …
Team USA 4, Soviet Union 3 … “Do you believe in miracles?”
Nitpick: this was a semifinal game, not the gold medal game.
St Louis Cardinals baseball (since 1980-81): 1982, 2006, and 2011
Dallas Cowboys (late 1980s): 1992 (SB 27), 1993 (SB 28), and 1995 (SB 30)
Los Angeles Lakers (1983): 1985, 1987, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, and 2010
LSU Tigers football: 2003 and 2007
Teams that won championships WHILE I was a big fan…
NY Yankees: 1977 and 1978 (I was nowhere near as big a fan when the 1990s mini-dynasty came along)
Oakland Raiders 1977
NY Giants: 1987, 1991, 2008, 2012
Notre Dame football: 1973, 1977, 1988
Montreal Canadiens: 1969, 71, 73, 76-79