Worst Sports Towns: San Diego Gunning For Seattle

Seattle is clearly the worst sports town in America right now, after all they've gone through. The events of the last twelve months have made America's Finest City a laughing stock. However, with the offical demise of the Chargers, San Diego can set its sights on overtaking The Emerald City for the dubious honor.

Hey Seattle, we're gunning for you.

We see your U-dub football program and raise you a flailing San Diego State program that hasn't even made a bowl game in ten years.  To your credit, your Huskies have managed to go 0-11 this year, losing even to sad-sack Washington State.  But at least you've tasted success sometime when we were all alive.  SDSU has lost to friggen Cal Poly (yes, they are the techy school that lives in Division II and no, I won't call it by that stupid new moniker) TWICE over the past three years and at HOME.  They gave up 70 points to a mediocre New Mexico team, and 63 points to Utah.  Coach Chuck Long was deservedly fired, but only after administrators went behind his back begging donors for buyout money, after promising publicly that he would be back in 2009.

Hell, the SDSU basketball program, while steadily improving, just put out a celebration video of the pats decade under head coach Steve Fisher.  It commemorated things like that one NCAA tournament appearance and two postseason victories.  In ten years.  And capped it by calling it an amazing decade. 

We see your 101-loss Mariners and raise you a pathetic Padres franchise that is in fire sale mode.  You won't ever have fire sales because of your Nintendo money.  Our owner's getting divorced, cutting back everything, and has previously dodged lawsuits about his business practices.  You lost out on the first overall pick in the 2009 draft because you got to play us in 2008.  You beat us five out of six times, including a sweep in San Diego.  You once won 116 games in a season (2001).  We may not win 116 between 2008 and 2009 combined after we sell off what's left of our roster (we need 53 wins in '09).

We see your 2-10 Seahawks and raise you one of the biggest underachieving tank jobs in NFL history, the 4-8 Chargers.  Watching them get manhandled at the Q yesterday was embarrassing.  The Atlanta Falcons should not out-muscle anyone.  They stopped LaDainian Tomlinson cold all day, despite possessing an average run defense.  The Bolts have lost close game after close game against "inferior" teams because their offensive line keeps getting beat up like a Philadelphia pitcher's wife.  The Chargers were supposed to contend for the Super Bowl this year.  At least the 'Hawks can bitch about an unreal number of injuries to wide receivers and balding quarterbacks.

We lost our Gulls hockey (yes, we're resorting to minor league hockey here), taking away our nightly drinking binges and mauling fights on ice.

You just recently lost the Sonics to Oklahoma City in what can only be describe as midnight robbery, so you get to keep your title as worst sports town in America, for now.

But we're coming after you.  Remember, we're the city that the Clippers ditched.  Think about that, the CLIPPERS didn't want us!

Think you've got our town beat? Prove it!

(Photos: Getty Images)

Chase Parker believes in the East Coast bias, stretching triples into doubles, and considers Tommy Boy to be the greatest athlete of our generation.

Unless otherwise stated, no particular sexual orientation of anyone depicted is implied or should be presumed.

Comments

[God Hates San Diego Sports]

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[Manchester United]

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