http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/teamrankings

the sabres finished number 1 in all sports team in 2007.... hey, uh... thats kinda a long fall.

detroit was the highest rated nhl team at number 8, followed by the caps.

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Penguins are ranked #5.

And hey #42 of EVERY major pro team on the continent? Might be a steep fall, but it's still admirable!

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mechaphil

LERN 2 REED, MKE.

good call.

i hope they start including MLS teams soon.

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A couple more years, and the MLS will definitely be at that point.

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mechaphil

CAN I STATE MY JUBILATION IN THE NEW YORK YANKEES BEING NUMBER 63?????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!11

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they just shit on a dartboard for most of those rankings. most subjective list ever

ESPN fail

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

So not only is my city ranked 3 notches higher then Buffalo on the most livable list, but now the local hockey team is ranked THE best.

You guys must think I am SOOOOOOO coool.

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"I love that you know how to do that." Cheryl/Carol/Crystal

"And I love that I have an erection that doesn't involve homeless people." Kreiger

Joking as you may be, that first point isn't something you wanna go near. It's like poking Cthulhu with a stick.

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mechaphil

I'd be thrilled if the Sabres were at the bottom of the list and had won the most Stanley Cups in the history of the NHL.

Alas...

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Wheelhouse

Ever seen those messing with Sasquatch jerky commercials?

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Wheelhouse

Yep.

yeah, so that means montreal should be at the top 2? no one cares about that, their stadium sucks, and WAY over priced. owner ship is... well, dedicated, yeah? corrupt, very, and no one cares what they did in the 20s and 50s. yeah, they won last year, but still.

but more means better in the minds of yankee fans. yeah, right. the question i always ask yankee fans is how many titles have they seen? with their own eyes? in which they lived and died on every pitch? for many yankee fans, its 1, maybe 5 if they hoped on board in 96 (95 ALDS in which the mariners beat the yankees was AWESOME!)

the best part is when they point to babe ruth as the best player ever (which i dont agree with, but what a ball player!) and they dont realize that ruth left the yankees under intense dislike (ruth stayed on the yankees for years as the eventual replacement to their old manager, but then when he retired, they gave the job to someone else. ruth never forgave them)

and its based on fan surveys. we probably all sung its gospel when they were number one in 07.

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You took it the wrong way. I don't care where my teams fall on an arbitrary list like that.

I don't buy that argument no matter who it comes from. Doesn't phase me at all.

Say what you want about the class of an organization, the loyalty of its owners, and the accessibility to its fans.

People in New York love the Yankees because they find ways to win, and they always have. I don't care if I haven't seen all 27 world series championships, and neither do any of the other Yankee fans.

It's about having pride in a FRANCHISE, rather than individual teams that come and go each year.

Say it with me. "The most winningest team in the history of professional sports."

Find ways around it, and dish it out to Yankees fans. It'll go in one ear and out the other.

We'd be lucky to have the Sabres be more similar to the Yankees. Maybe then we'd have some Stanley Cup banners hanging from the rafters.

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Wheelhouse

and no one really cares about world series won prior to peoples life times, because its just a bloated number that yankee fans use to feel entitled. sweet! you a boat load of world series prior to the proper playoff system and drafting system by simply over paying for players when other teams ran into financial problems. sorry, that doesnt sit well with me. ive never claimed the yankees bought a title from 96-2000, and 2009, because they havnt, but prior to, yeah, thats how things went.

its that entitled douchebag "we have more, we are Superior" attitude that makes other fan relish when the yankees dont excel at something, and then yankee fans just swoop in, say "more world series" as if its the only thing. naw, its just a defense mechanism.

if you wanna be a yankee fan, great. but in every post ive ever seen you make about baseball, you always bring up "most world series" and yeah, that gets super old.

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Bills are 101 LAWL

Magic are number 2. That's pretty cool though

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"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." ~ Han Solo


We truly are not worthy of Miller!

orlando AND pittsbugh both have new arenas next year. both will be stunning.

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Hell yeah, when I come back to Orlando for Christmas next year I'm going to a game there for sure, and if I'm back soon enough in the spring I'd like to check out a playoff game too.

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"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." ~ Han Solo


We truly are not worthy of Miller!

amway center. its very similar to verizon center and quicken loans arena. 3 decks on the sides, 2 in the ends.

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So?



That is not true. I've also posted about how much the red sox suck without mentioning a single word of the Yankees' dominance of baseball.

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Wheelhouse

It's long since past been time to move this thread into Other Sports Talk.

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mechaphil