Philly SportsCast

Banking on the inevitably of the Flyers not wining the Stanley Cup this year, Philadelphia’s own Bryan Armen Graham has so generously written a feature for Sports Illustrated on the fact that our city hasn’t won a championship since 1983.

Bryan, asshole, do we really need this documented?

The Flyers’ elimination made it 100 consecutive seasons without a title for Philadelphia’s four major teams. That’s far and away the record for a four-sport town — a gold standard for civic sports futility.

Philadelphia (yes, my hometown) has been a major trophy-free zone since 1983. The drought has battered the area’s collective psyche, rendering an entire generation of sports fans wounded, disillusioned and emotionally bankrupt. Whether you chalk up the streak to bad players, bad management or just plain bad luck, the hard numbers remain the same: 100 seasons, zero championships.

To commemorate the dubious milestone, here’s a list of the 100 worst moments in Philadelphia sports during the drought. The scope is limited to the four major sports with a couple of obligatory exceptions. While the sheer length of the list might strike an outsider as a tad gratuitous — an excessive tribute to failure — there’s simply no better way to relate the epic scope of Philly’s perpetual heartbreak.