"Several months ago ESPN allowed the American people to vote on Titletown USA. Valdosta, GA came out the winner.
That got me thinking: What is the opposite? Who is Suck-city USA?
Sadly I knew the answer before I got started.
After the Phillies won the World Series I was again inspired to post this even though I knew the grizzly truth.
I set out to determine what city is Suck-city USA. What city has gone the longest without winning a championship?
Let me briefly set out the criteria I used:
1.) I took every city in the US and Canada currently hosting at least one team in either the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL.
2.) I added up the time since each team in each city had gone without winning a championship. This gave us the Total Years category.
3.) I then divided the Total years by the number of teams in the "4 majors" each city hosts to get the Average Years.
4.) I then averaged the Total Years with the Average Years category. This gave me the Suck-i-Scale for each city.
5.) As an editors note, some cities used to host teams (i.e. New Orleans Jazz, Seattle Metropolitans, Minneapolis Lakers, etc.). If the city hosting that team has a current team I used the years of past futility and tacked them onto current futility where applicable (i.e. the Minnesota North Stars drought was tacked onto the years the
Minnesota Wild has gone without winning a Stanley Cup)."
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