#super hooligan national national championship

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Super Hooligan National Championship Laguna Seca, 2022

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Mission King Of The Baggers, BellissiMoto Twins Cup And Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Classes Join The Daytona 200. MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, has announced a total of 143 entries for the three classes that kick off the 2024 MotoAmerica Championship at Daytona International Speedway, March 7-9. The 82nd running of the Daytona 200 will feature 67 riders with 28 of those from outside the United States. The race can also boast of three past Daytona 200 winners (Josh Herrin, Brandon Paasch and Danny Eslick) on the 2024 entry list. But the Daytona 200 isn’t the only race happening at the Speedway as the Mission King Of The Baggers, BellissiMoto Twins Cup and Mission Super Hooligan National Championship will also be in action on the high banks at the “World Center Of Racing” for what will be the start of their championship seasons. The entry list for Mission King Of The Baggers is 16-riders strong, and it features defending class champion Hayden Gillim aboard his RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson as he battles against rivals Kyle Wyman and James Rispoli who represent Harley-Davidson Factory Racing. The other American Big Twin motorcycle company, Indian Motorcycle, are represented by Tyler O’Hara, who is teamed up this year with fellow S&S/Indian Challenger rider Troy Herfoss, a three-time Australian Superbike Champion who will be making his Daytona debut. And speaking of riders from other countries, the pride of Andorra, a MotoGP podium finisher, as well as a World Supersport and World Superbike multi-time race winner, Rubén Xaus is all-in on his Feuling Parts Harley-Davidson. He’ll have to face Bobby Fong, who is back aboard his SDI/Roland Sands Racing/Indian Challenger. Then there’s the three-rider Saddlemen/Harley-Davidson team with Cory West, Jake Lewis, and Travis Wyman. And let us not leave out the surprise signing of the off-season with Hayden Gillim’s teammate Rocco Landers also aboard a RevZilla/Motul/Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson. Mad Monkey Motorsports’ Max Flinders is hopeful of duplicating or improving on his podium result from the last KOTB race in New Jersey in 2023 and Trask Performance is fielding Shane Narbonne. Indian insider (he’s an engineer) Kyle Ohnsorg is back aboard a Challenger after a podium-reaching performance at COTA last year. Flat tracker Jesse Janisch is bringing his sideways-sliding style to the Suburban Motors H-D/Slyfox/Trask Performance team. And they will all be joined by Danny Eslick, the four-time Daytona 200 winner who will be aboard his Nowaskey Extreme Performance Harley. Meanwhile, 25riders have entered the BellissiMoto Twins Cup series opener with two races around the 3.51-mile, 12-turn Daytona road course. Defending Twins Cup Champion Blake Davis will start the season as the favorite on his Yamaha YZF-R7, but he will face a considerable challenge from both Aprilia and Suzuki-mounted riders. The Suzuki attack is led by Team Hammer’s Rossi Moor on the new Suzuki GSX-8R with Vance & Hines also fielding Rocco Landers on a GSX-8R. Aprilia, meanwhile, will be well represented by Robem Engineering’s Gus Rodio, who will be teamed up with Italian Alessandro Di Mario and wild-card New Hampshirite Ben Gloddy, who is returning to the team for at least one round (and maybe more?). And, speaking of Italy, new team TopPro Racing has brought in Romeo Chiavini to pilot an Aprilia. Those four will be joined by eight more Ape-riders ready to go “660” on the field of 25. Along with Davis in the Yamaha YZF-R7 camp are former class champion Kaleb DeKeyrel, South African Dominic Doyle, and his Giaccmoto Racing Yamaha teammate Sonya Lloyd, who raced in last year’s Royal Enfield Build. Train. Race. program, and British-racer-living-in-Canada Jack Roach returns to MotoAmerica after a hiatus of a couple of years. Thirty-five riders have entered the series opener for the Mission Super Hooligan National Championship with that class featuring 12 different manufacturers doing battle. Making its debut at Daytona is the Yamaha MT-09 SP, a three-cylinder motorcycle that will be piloted by three different riders, including Italian-born, Switzerland-residing FIM Endurance World Championship-winning rider Niccolò Canepa. Defending class champion Tyler O’Hara is back aboard his S&S/Indian FTR1200, Andy DiBrino returns aboard his Competition Werkes/Gray Area/KTM 890 DUKE R, and Stefano Mesa will once again be aboard his Tytlers Cycle Energica Eva Ribelle RS electric bike. Plus, there are seven Harley-Davidson Pan Americas, a couple of BMW R nineTs, two Ducatis, a pair of Suzuki SV1000s, an Aprilia Tuono, a Buell XB12XT, and even a Victory Vegas in the mix.

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INDIAN MOTORCYCLE RACING CAPTURE SECOND-CONSECUTIVE MOTOAMERICA SUPER HOOLIGAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP http://dlvr.it/Sw1C5G

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I was planning on keeping on with pokemon (havent played since the OG black ver) with either ultra sun or ultra moon since i tought these two would be a superior version of the original two like the 3rd game of every pokemon (Platinum, Crystal, Emerald and Black/White 2). So i want to know before considering buying either: why do you think they are bad?

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon are basically the same situation as what happened with Super Mario Galaxy 2: there were one or two left over ideas when the main game was complete, the manpower, online service, and development software wasn’t in-house to support launching said ideas as a DLC expansion pack for 20-30 dollars so they took the base game they already had, made those one or two ideas the forefront, said ‘FUCK YOU, EAT MY ASS AND WRITE A DISSERTATION ON HOW IT TASTES’ to any semblance of a good story, and launched it for the same price as the original Sun and Moon. 

You know what Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon add to the core game? 

Two clumsy mini-games, a secondary campaign that really does nothing?? Because, at the end of the day, Ultra Necrozma is the definition of a ‘Gimmick Pokemon’, a third campaign that only serves to make the villain team leaders from past games look like idiots, and a complete bullshit retcon of the actually engaging story that vanilla!Sun and Moon produced. Some spoilers I suppose, even though the heyday of these games has long since gone.

And, yes, you should read this in the same tone as one of VivaReveries’ “X But Really Fast” videos.

Vanilla!Sun and Moon: “I’m a grieving woman who, in trying to avoid the grief of losing my husband to the void, I flung myself into researching the strange creatures of a new realm, not knowing that my constant exposure to them is degrading my mental state to the point that I start abusing my son and daughter, and torturing this innocent minor-deity we found in the name of science so I can open up a portal to be with the strange creatures I developed a pseudo-sexual fascination for

But then my daughter steals the minor deity away, goes into hiding, has a game-long coming-of-age development cycle and soon learns to not only develop into her own person but realizes that caring for mentally-unstable relatives may be a thankless feat at times, but the most important thing for you is keeping your own health and mental state in mind, that sometimes means cutting yourself off from their toxicity – oh, by the way, I psychologically manipulated the leader of the local hooligan gang who is going through his own reaction to his troubled relationship with his father and not being allowed to compete in this game’s TOURNAMENT ARC and has imprinted on me in order to cope – 

Okay, back to business proper. After climbing a big ass mountain, bumping into the hippie fairy lady (which NEITHER VERSION OF THE GAME DID ANYTHING USEFUL WITH), and summoning either the deity of the Sun or the Moon (though, weirdly enough, the sentimental relationship between said daughter and the cover legendary seems more genuine in Moon than it does in Sun), and after confronting said hooligan gang-leader who finally realizes that I’ve gone CUCKOO FOR KOMALA PUFFS, my daughter and MC confront me in Ultra Space where I’m too busy gushing and fawning over my PRECIOUS, MIND-MELTING, LOVECRAFTIAN JELLYFISH BABIES THAT I’M SO OBSESSED WITH, BY THE WAY, THAT I FORCED SAID DAUGHTER TO WEAR CLOTHES THAT LOOK LIKE THEM, 

They challenge me to a battle and I have a FUCKING BADASS HYBRIDIZATION TRANSFORMATION which is admittedly wasted since they just end up fighting my Pokemon. I’m finally defeated by a finishing blow by the cover legendary, I’m near death, but my daughter comes to try and talk to me before I go and my last words of the game, after having this unhealthy fixation with beauty and MIND-MELTING, LOVECRAFTIAN JELLYFISH BABIES and mentally abusing my daughter… 

“Lillie… Since when did you become so… beautiful?”

Signifying that this lilly has managed to blossom without the sickening, overbearing greenhouse of her mother’s unstable affections.

Also, there’s a conversation with Hau that you can have that seems to be a Mandela Effect situation because some people swear they got it, others say no, but it let’s you know that Hau is from a broken family as well since his piece of shit dad left home because he was sick of always being in his grandfather’s shadow – Giving the game the overall theme of the Trials and Tribulations of Family.

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Ultra Sun and Moon: “Hey, guess what? I abused my son and daughter and placed this island nation in mortal danger, not because I was mentally unhinged due to grief and MIND-MELTING, LOVECRAFTIAN JELLYFISH BABIES… But because there’s a giant ‘ORIGINAL OP CHARACTER, DONUT STEEL’ gold dragon in between universes and rather than discuss said threat with the leaders of this island nation, I’m going to jeopardize everything, torture a minor deity, and in the end make everything WORSE because it is my job to save the POOR, STUPID BROWN PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY OBVIOUSLY CAN’T FEND FOR THEMSELVES!!

*deep breath* 

Oh, also, I end up getting kidnapped by Giovanni and serving as nothing more than the catalyst to justify the Rainbow Rocket campaign. Lol”

The only thing that USUM have on Vanilla!Sun and Moon is a few extra pseudo-legendaries, the Ultra Wormhole mechanic that allows you to find Pokemon and Ultra Beasts you can’t get in the main campaign, and the UltraSpace characters they introduced for the Ultra Necrozma conflict. 

That’s… It. 

Jesus Christ, I don’t like Gen 5 but at least Black 2 and White 2 enhanced the gameplay of their core games and gave an interesting story-campaign and antagonist. 

Oh, I’m sorry, the other thing you get in USUM is a brief cutscene with your Starter Pokemon before you enter the Championship League. Whoo.

If you want to experience Gen 7 in a good way, gameplay and story-wise, just play the original games. There’s literally no reason to play USUM unless you REALLY want to see Pennywise’s and the Great Wall of China’s Pokesonas.

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March 11, 2019 at 03:21PM American Motorcyclist Association Announces First AMA-sanctioned Super Hooligan National Championship https://www.itsabikerslife.com/2019/03/american-motorcyclist-association.html

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RSD's Super Hooligans Series Set For Three Rounds In Conjunction With MotoAmerica - Cycle News

RSD's Super Hooligans Series Set For Three Rounds In Conjunction With MotoAmerica – Cycle News

Roland Sands Designs’ Hooligan Series Will Join MotoAmerica In Beginning Its Championship At Daytona International Speedway In MarchThis is a press release from MotoAmerica…Irvine, CA (December 22, 2021) – MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, and Roland Sands Designs have announced that the road racing portion of 2022 Super Hooligan National Championship (SHNC) Road…

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Air-Cooled Challenge Added to Super Hooligan Championship

Air-Cooled Challenge Added to Super Hooligan Championship

RSD and Mission Foods add incentive for air-cooled V-twin riders to the Super Hooligan National Championship. (more…)

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One more week !!!!! @superhooligans round 2 Along with a killer bike and car show @hkhoedown Super Hooligan National Championship Round 2 takes place at Hippy Killer Hoedown in Perris, CA on April 14th, 2018. The Hoedown was created for custom vehicles, friends, families and fans. Expect thousands of dollars in giveaways, Hooligan, vintage and mini bike flat track racing, live music from multiple bands, plus custom cars, vans and motorcycles on display. Located at the Farmers Fairgrounds in Perris, CA, the main gates open from 10am to 8pm. Racing starts 11am. This is a family friendly event and spectator admission is $15.00 per person, small children free. Farmer Fairgrounds 18700 Lake Perris Drive Perris, CA. CLASSES: RSD Superhooligan Hooligan Fun (Same bike rules as Superhooligan. No pros. No contingency.) Tank Shift Vintage Pullstart Minibike Vintage & Bomber Open (Pre-1981, unlimited cc) Run What Ya Brung (Knobbies OK) Women Open (Knobbies OK) Flat track tires only for all classes, except Run What Ya' Brung and Women Open. Racer Info: Pits open 7:00AM Practice 9:30AM First race 11:00AM

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Round 8 Of The RSD Super Hooligan National Championship Sept. 9th In Costa Mesa - Motorcycle.com News

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I’ve been out in the sticks without service and wifi (which is exactly how it like it). - This is from the unveiling of the first custom 2019 Indian Motorcycles FTR 1200, from the Hooligan ringleader himself, Roland Sands and the @rolandsandsdesign team. - I can’t imagine a cooler street tracker-turned-dirt in existence right now, and this baby now resides in the collection of Super Hooligan National Championship winner, @andy_dibrino . @hotbikemag @Rolandsandsdesign @superhooligans @indianftr1200 @indian @motoclassicevents @surfcityblitz @BMWmotorrad https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq1L6WaAOVX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=nb90gves0al9

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2022 Super Hooligan National Championship Laguna Seca Raceway

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MotoAmerica Mission Super Hooligan National Championship Daytona https://www.totalmotorcycle.com/motoamerica-mission-super-hooligan-national-championship-daytona/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr

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After ten days basking in the nature of Patagonia, it was time to return to big city life and there are few better places to do that than in Buenos Aires, which has the feel of a city that was once the capital of an empire, even though it never was. The city also doesn’t maintain significant scars of Spanish colonial rule (aside from speaking Spanish, of course), since it was a minor colony due to it’s lack of mineral resources as compared to the west of South America. At the same time, it’s definitely the most European place I’ve been down here, which is a result of it’s extremely liberal immigration policies that has led to significant European immigration, especially among Italians (supposedly up to 50% of the population has some Italian blood) and Jews (one of the five largest populations in the world). And, of course, on top of all that, it’s one of the best places to party in South America, as they notoriously stay out all night here.

After a travel (and rest) day brought me from El Chalten to El Calafate to Buenos Aires on Thursday night, I arrived at my hostel after 1:15am to a raging party, which I did my best to sleep through, as I was pretty exhausted. I decided to stay at a party hostel, as I was meeting Pat, a guy I originally met in El Calafate, who was staying there as well. Pat was actually childhood friends with Seth and Kristina (remember them from the W) and he had been traveling with them for a bit after the hike when I met him. I figured I’d rather hang with someone I liked than not, plus he had studied abroad here, so he knew what was what. By the end of the weekend I was definitely ready to move on to a chiller place, but it was the right move for a weekend in Buenos Aires.

On Friday morning, I got up and made my way over to the Teatro Colon, an ornate theater, where I jumped on a walking tour of the Recoleta neighborhood. Recoleta is the nice part of town here, replete with massive palaces that were built by the rich and powerful in Buenos Aires. The area houses a number of parks and monuments to Jose de San Martin, the liberator of Argentina, as well as a Big Ben look a like (above) that the British built for the Argentine centennial, which quickly became awkward after the war over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas in Argentina). I don’t want to get into all the details of it, but basically the British had been living undisturbed on Argentinian land for 150 years and then a military dictator, in a move meant to unite Argentina together, sent off a bunch of untrained teenagers in the 80s to go take it back from the Brits, which was an unmitigated disaster, as they got crushed. Regardless there is still a significant amount of animosity between Argentina and Great Britain because of it. The tour ended at the famous Recoleta ceremony, which is packed to the gills with ornate mausoleums and holds the remains of over 350,000 people in a single city block. It was definitely cool to walk around and check out the rats nest of tombs there. Afterwards, I went with Ben, an American I met on the tour, to grab a bite to eat (delicious shwarma, due to the large Jewish population) and check out the Museum of Fine Arts, which had a very good collection, including works of art by Picasso, Van Gogh, Rodin, Monet, Manet, Degas, Gaugin, & Kandinsky, among a host of Argentinian painters as well. After that I returned to my hostel to get cleaned up and get a hair cut, as I was starting to look like a crappy knockoff of a Duck Dynasty cast member. That evening I met up with Pat and we went on a pub crawl in the Palermo neighborhood. The pub crawl was a mix of travelers and locals, which was a nice change of pace from just drinking with people in the hostel, and jumped from bar to bar before ending the night at a club, which, we, of course, didn’t even get to until 2am because showing up any earlier than that here would be lame. Let’s just say I didn’t get back that night until real late and with a much lighter wallet.

The next day (I’d be lying if I said morning), I woke up and decided to go check out the San Telmo market, a bougie spot for food, which was located just fifteen minutes from the hostel to grab something to help with the wicked hangover I was dealing with. I then returned to the hostel to meet Pat as we were headed on a walking tour of the historic center of Buenos Aires. The tour started with the National Congress and proceeded down one of the main avenues touching on the mishmash of architecture and the political (30,000 people disappeared during the military dictatorship) and economic upheaval (40% inflation last year) that’s thrashed the country in the last fourty years. The tour ended near the Plaza de Mayo, the main square in the city, which was unfortunately under heavy construction, and Casa Rosada (Pink House), the president’s ceremonial residence. We then went back near the San Telmo market to pick up some delicious roasted meat sandwiches from a hole in the wall place that Pat knew about. After returning to the hostel and taking a nap, I had an easier night grabbing a drink at a nearby brewery, while Pat redid the pub crawl from the night before with a few folks he knew from the States who just happened to be in our hostel as well.

On Sunday morning, I returned to San Telmo again (it was a really cool, artsy area) to check out the big Sunday street fair. It stretched for over 10 blocks and consisted of people selling souvenirs, legitimate arts and crafts, and, in an odd twist, lots of antiques that seemed like things you might find at an estate sale. Regardless, it was cool to walk the market and also proved to be a good place to grab some street food to enjoy. I returned to the hostel around 1pm for the days big activity, a visit to La Bomberina, to watch Boca Juniors, the best soccer team in Argentina, play for the right to clinch it’s league championship. It’s basically like going to New York City to watch the Yankees, but if everyone in the US was as obsessed with baseball as all of the sports we have combined. The game wasn’t actually until 5:45pm, so they took us (it was a guided tour as foreigners can’t really buy tickets and you need to go with someone who has an Argentinian ID to even get in the stadium) to a never ending pregame beforehand. We, eventually, walked over to the stadium and into our seats as the crowd was getting worked up for kickoff. It was a super cool experience as the fans, even in our supposedly more chill section (we weren’t allowed to sit with the real hooligans) were extremely passionate. They serenaded the stadium with chants of Vale, Vale Boca! (Basically “Lets go Boca!”) non-stop for the entire game, only breaking to scream and lose their minds as Boca scored two goals late in the second half to clinch the league championship. It was a really fun experience, though the danger of it was way overblown in my opinion, as we had been told repeatedly to be wary while at the game, but it was relatively straight forward. We then made our way out of the stadium and back to the hostel for some food and a very chill night. It was an exciting and exhausting weekend, but now it’s time to check out the neighbor nation of Uruguay for a few days.

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Roland Sands Design 2018 Super Hooligan National Championship Series Kicked Off This Weekend http://motorsmaster.blogspot.com/2018/02/roland-sands-design-2018-super-hooligan.html

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Super Hooligan National Championship To Kick Off At MotoAmerica's Laguna Seca Weekend - Cycle News

Super Hooligan National Championship To Kick Off At MotoAmerica's Laguna Seca Weekend – Cycle News

The debut of the four-round 2021 Super Hooligan National Championship will run in conjunction with the MotoAmerica Superbike Speedfest At Monterey.This is a press release from MotoAmerica…Irvine, CA (June 8, 2021) – MotoAmerica, North America’s premier motorcycle road racing series, is thrilled to announce that the opening round of the Roland Sands Design 2021 Super Hooligan National Championship…

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No City Needs A Championship As Badly As Philadelphia

The sports fans of Philadelphia are known for their unique brand of bottle-throwing, Santa Claus-attacking, expletive-laced rowdiness. But is this reputation deserved? Are they actually any different from other fiery fan bases in, say, Buffalo or Oakland? I asked my colleague Rob Arthur to look at citywide crime rates, and he couldn’t find any significant uptick on game days. Then again, multiple Eagles fans are alleged to have punched horses (!?!) during these playoffs alone:

Another Eagles fan punched a police horse outside Lincoln Financial Field https://t.co/RMeXZemhf1

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) January 22, 2018

The tug of war between Philadelphia’s view of itself as a combative underdog and the greater prestige to which it sometimes aspires will be on full display Sunday night, when the Eagles take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LII. Between the city’s sports heartbreaks and hooliganism, its perpetual inferiority complex and recent civic resurgence, this Super Bowl could be a turning point for Philly or another way for its fans to double down on their notoriety.

“You can’t deny that there is coarse [fan] behavior,” New York Times reporter Jeré Longman told me in a phone interview. Longman would know — he wrote a book about the neuroses of the city’s fans the last time the Eagles made the Super Bowl, back in 2005. But he also made a case that Philly deserves a better image. “It’s the founding city of the United States; it has these great institutions,” Longman said. “And now it has a vibrant art and music scene, great food, lots of young professionals living downtown.” In Longman’s view, Philadelphia too often sells itself short of what it could be (and already is) when its fans live down to their boorish reputation.

“The city’s slogan actually used to be, ‘Philadelphia: Not as bad as Philadelphians say it is,’” he said. “Maybe this Super Bowl will be a chance for people in Philadelphia to realize what a great city they have.”1

The roots of the Fairmount Park-sized chip on Philly fans’ collective shoulders go back decades — the infamous Santa snowball incident happened in 1968, less than three years into the Super Bowl’s existence. But they have seemed to grow deeper as the years went on without a championship in the sport Philadelphia embraces the most. The Eagles, which have been around since 1933, are one of 13 NFL franchises that have never won a Super Bowl, and nobody has won more total ballgames among the Super Bowl oh-fers.2

Making matters worse, the Eagles’ rivals in the NFC East — the hated Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants and Washington Redskins — have won a combined 12 championships in the Super Bowl era. Six times a year, Eagles fans are forced to contrast themselves against fan bases whose historical résumés have been weaponized for the taunting.

There’s a cultural component to the frustration as well. “Football represents Philadelphia’s ideal view of itself: a tough, blue-collar sport,” Longman said. Both he and Glen Macnow, a longtime host at the local sports-talk radio station WIP, agreed that the Eagles are the one team in the city whose rabid support stretches across demographic and societal lines. Indeed, over the past five years, the Eagles have dominated the search-traffic battle against the city’s other pro teams to a greater degree than the national average.3

“It’s a football town,” Macnow said. “The Eagles bring together everybody in the city.” If so, that also puts the team squarely at the emotional epicenter of Philadelphia angst.

The city’s general lack of sports success over the years hasn’t helped matters. Philly teams went more than 25 years without a title, between the 1982-83 76ers’ NBA crown and the Phillies’ World Series victory in 2008. And it hasn’t been for lack of trying. In the 34 years starting in 1984 — the year after the Sixers won their title — through 2017, no other city in pro sports has underachieved more on the championship front, based on the number of actual titles won and the number we’d expect from how many teams they had in each sport.4

Which sports cities have overachieved the most (and least)?

Actual vs. expected championships in the big 4 North American sports for cities, 1984-2017

Championships vs. Expected Top 10 NFL NBA MLB NHL Total Boston +4.38 +1.78 +1.84 -0.27 +7.73 Chicago -0.12 +4.78 -0.31 +1.73 +6.08 Los Angeles -0.88 +5.60 -0.59 +0.73 +4.86 San Francisco +2.88 +0.00 +1.84 +0.00 +4.72 San Antonio +0.00 +3.78 +0.00 +0.00 +3.78 Edmonton +0.00 +0.00 +0.00 +3.73 +3.73 Pittsburgh +0.88 +0.00 -1.16 +3.73 +3.45 Detroit -1.12 +1.78 -0.16 +2.73 +3.23 New York City +1.75 -2.45 +3.69 +0.20 +3.20 Miami -1.12 +1.99 +1.19 -0.80 +1.26 Championships vs. Expected Bottom 10 NFL NBA MLB NHL Total Washington, D.C. +0.88 -1.22 -0.43 -1.27 -2.05 Seattle -0.12 -0.92 -1.16 +0.00 -2.20 Minneapolis -1.12 -0.97 +0.84 -1.00 -2.25 San Diego -1.09 -0.04 -1.16 +0.00 -2.29 Milwaukee +0.00 -1.22 -1.16 +0.00 -2.38 Buffalo -1.12 +0.00 +0.00 -1.27 -2.39 Cleveland -1.02 -0.22 -1.16 +0.00 -2.40 Phoenix -0.98 -1.22 +0.33 -0.68 -2.55 Atlanta -1.12 -1.22 -0.16 -0.37 -2.87 Philadelphia -0.62 -1.22 -0.16 -1.27 -3.27

This assigns Boston and Philadelphia a “half-championship” for the 2017 NFL season, since Super Bowl LII’s winner isn’t known yet.

Expected championships are calculated by assigning each team in a league equal odds of winning the title in a given season and then adding up those title chances over time.

Source: Sports-Reference sites

(And that’s after assigning Philly and Boston a “half-championship” each for the upcoming Super Bowl, assuming that each team has roughly 50-50 odds. If we didn’t do that, Philadelphia teams would be running a collective 3.7 championships below expectation since 1983.)

Here’s another way this data helps illustrate why Philadelphia fans are so emotionally overwrought when it comes to sports: In terms of expected titles — which measures the sheer number of cracks a city has had at championship glory — Philly trails only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago (and it’s tied with Boston and Detroit). Justifiably, it thinks of itself as belonging among that group of towns. But collectively, those five cities have won 57.5 championships — 25.1 more than expected — since 1983, with each exceeding their expectation by at least 3.2 titles. Philly, meanwhile, is running 3.3 titles below expectations. Add in the fact that Philadelphia ranks only 25th in championships won since 1983 despite being a top-eight U.S. metro area by both population and economic might, and it makes sense why Philly fandom is often a powder keg waiting to explode.

“It’s like a permanent wedgie,” Macnow said of Philadelphia’s sports inferiority complex. “You look up the East Coast at New York and see their championships and at Boston’s smug fans — we call them ‘Massholes.’ There’s an element of envy there as well.”

That’s one reason the Patriots might be the ultimate opponent for the Eagles as they try to end their Super Bowl drought. Since 1983, Boston teams have won 7.7 more titles than expected — in exactly the same number of chances as Philly had. The cities are similar in many ways, from population to their shared importance in the early history of the country, a common insular attitude and their parallel rivalries with the behemoth situated between them — New York City. It isn’t difficult to envision an alternate universe in which the fates of Boston and Philadelphia sports had switched places several decades ago.

Everyone agrees that an Eagles win on Sunday would set off something approaching total pandemonium in the Philadelphia. “It would be by far the largest sports celebration ever,” Longman told me. “There aren’t enough cans of Crisco in the world to keep people from climbing every [street] pole in Philadelphia.” Longman thought the potential crowds would dwarf the Phillies’ championship parade in 2008 and be more akin to when the pope visited the city in 2015.

Whether the long-awaited Super Bowl victory would mark the beginning of a change in fans’ behavior, however, is another question, given that so much of Philly fandom — for good and bad — is wrapped up in the feelings of being overlooked and misunderstood.

“It would require a change in a mindset that has prevailed for many generations,” Longman said. “It’d be fascinating to see if Philly is comfortable with being the overdog instead of the underdog.”

Although it would only begin to make a slight dent in the city’s championship shortfall of the past three and a half decades, winning Sunday would be a good start.

from News About Sports https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/no-city-needs-a-championship-as-badly-as-philadelphia/