Who Will Be The Last Loser?
The Kingdome, after it gained sentience and realized the futility of Seattle sports.
Now that the Colorado Rockies got their ass handed to them lost to the Boston Red Sox, only four, bottom-of-the-alphabet teams have failed to appear in the Fall Classic: Seattle, Tampa Bay, Texas and Washington. In comparison to the NFL, only six teams have yet to play in a Super Bowl: Arizona, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Jacksonville and New Orleans.
Because Major League Baseball is in its third century, I’m surprised that four teams still haven’t appeared in the World Series. Notice that the four are historically inept, but all relative newbies compared to the majority of franchises. The NFL’s growth, compared to baseball, it meteoric. I’m surprised there aren’t more franchises without appearances.
Who will be the last baseball team not to make the World Series? Who will drive their GMC Official Truck of the Super Bowl to the Big Game last?
Washington (nee Montreal) has a competent front office and a huge market to draw from. Seattle has come close in 2000 and 2001 and might do so again. My money is on Texas. The Rays have ever-promising talent and relatively new owners. The Rangers still have the idiot who paid too much for A-Rod and accused his players of using steroids during a press interview.
As for the longest Super Bowl drought? Cleveland will make it one day and lose (Ask Buffalo fans about the Lake Erie curse). Houston, Arizona and New Orleans might eventually pull out of their perpetual tailspins. Hell, Detroit might make it this season.
That leaves Jacksonville. I just can’t see town full of NFL apathy represented in the Super Bowl. I know the players care, but I’m not player. (That’s what she said — No time!) Maybe when they move to LA. That way, a much larger town that doesn’t care about the NFL can make it back to the ‘Bowl.