The City of Philadelphia Sets New World Record, Loses Three Straight Championship Games In 99 Days
Rob Carr. Getty Images.They said it couldn't be done. Nobody believed in us. The whole world wrote us off. But here's the thing--we ain't write back.
Just when you thought that life as a Philadelphia sports fan couldn't get more cripplingly depressing, the boys go out and lose the biggest game of the year. When the Union lost in the MLS Cup Final, it was fine because realistically it's just soccer and who gives a flying heck about soccer? The Phillies losing the World Series sucked an extra large order of ass for sure, but nobody expected them to get to that point in the first place.
But when the Eagles were the best team in football all season long? When they dismantled the rest of the NFC in the playoffs? When they were up by 10 at halftime in the Super Bowl? To go on to lose that game in the fashion which this team did?
You wonder why Philly fans are as unhinged as we are? It's precisely for reasons like the 2022-23 season. This doesn't happen to any other city in the world.
Sometimes I wish we could just be absolute dog shit and never have the need to get our hopes up like Minnesota. Life would be so much simpler if that were the case. To just go about your business every day knowing damn well that you'll never be in a position to lose any game of serious significance. But no. Philly doesn't have it that easy. We are perpetually stuck on this emotional rollercoaster where we experience the highest of highs just to immediately get dropped to the lowest of lows.
Suffering the same fate as Philly sports fans over and over again would completely obliterate any other city out there. Three championship losses in one season. THREE. And that's not even taking into consideration the hell that the Sixers put us through every other day. The fact that we're still standing is a testament to this city, for sure. But as each season passes on in this city, the release of death seems sweeter and sweeter.