DURING YOUR TIME AS A FAN. So yeah, no '72 Dolphins for me.

(Yeah there's probably a thread for this, but it was inspired by city-centric sports threads)

I'll start.

Miami Dolphins: The 90s and early 00s would probably count as a high and low. Perennial preseason favorites; solid, not spectacular regular seasons followed by early playoff exits.

High: 1992 season, first round bye #2 seed. Hosted AFC Championship which I maintain to this day we could have beaten Pittsburgh had we gotten to play them, but Buffalo had to go and have the greatest comeback ever in wildcard weekend, and yeah they beat us 29-10.
Low: 2007. 1-15 while the Pats went 16-0.

Florida Marlins:
Highs: 1997 and 2003 championships.
Lows: November '97-'01. Fire sales # 2, 3, and 4.

Florida Gators:
Highs: Tim Tebow. 1996, 2006, 2008 National Championships, as well as any year defeating FSU. 2009 undefeated regular season.
Lows: Losing SEC Championship '09. Ron Zook era. 2010.

Gators Bball:
Back to back titles, and runner up in '00. Rooted mildly for all three. Was into it the most in '00.

Miami Hurricanes:
Quick disclaimer: I grew up hating the early 90s Canes. I started to kinda like them when they started sucking. Edgerrin James and then Ken Dorsey were two guys that I specifically liked. I like them, don't love them these days. Gators first and foremost as always. Kinda bandwagon of me, I know.

Highs: National champs in '02 and '03. Shoulda had a shot in '01 as well.
Lows: Everything after '03.


Miami Heat:
Highs: '06 Championship and the present.
Lows: '07. And losing the Knicks in the 90s over and over.

Mine...


Red Sox
High: The 04 postseason, and the series against the Yankees.
Low: Aaron Boone's HR in 03

Celtics
High: The 08 Championship
Low: Probably when they didnt win the Tim Duncan lottery in what 97?

Bruins
High: Game 6 in the first round against the Canadiens in 08, there havent been many high moments with this team.
Low: Losing to Carolina in 09, this honestly hurt me more than last year's collapse.

Patriots
High: The first Super Bowl in 02.
Low: The Super Bowl against the Giants.

UM Basketball
High: The Fab Five. Even with no titles, this was an amazing thing to do. Very entertaining
Low: The fall of the program from all the violations. They were a recruiting juggernaut, and now we know why

UM Football
High:'97 title. Forget the split title, UM won that year. So many pros through the system
Lows: Spread Offense+Big Ten= Lots of losses

Tigers
High: '06 World Series out of nowhere. Skipping out on a reception to go see the end of the Yankees Series, the night after watching Kenny Rogers shut them down.
Lows: 93-02 were bad. Very bad. But at least they might win a couple games. '03 however was wow. So terribly bad. Hard to watch.

Red Wings.
High: Utterly spoiled here. Arguably the best run franchise in all of sports, and have been a legitimate contender since i was 10 years old. Now im 30.
Low: The trade of Shawn Burr to Tampa for Marc Bergevin and Ben Hankinson

Pistons
HIgh: '02-'08. No superstars, just came out of nowhere after grant hill left to make it to 6 straight eastern conference finals, including the '04 title.
Lows: the insanely fast descent following the trade of Billups.

Lions
High: 4 in a row!!!
Lows: Post Exceeds Bandwidth Allowable by the entire internet.

New York Islanders

Highs:

- 4 straight stanley cups from 80-83.
- The 86 Easter Epic.
- The 1993 Run to the conference finals with a shocking upset over the pengiuns

Low:
- The 90's owership fiasco
- Mike Milbury
- The Darcy Tucker Cheapshot.
- The current situation with a last place team and a shit building, pretty much 1995 to 2011.

New York Jets:
- Most recent two back to back AFC champioship appearences.
- The 69 superbowl.


Lows:
- The fake spike
- The mud bowl
- Mo lewis's hit on Drew bledsoe in 2001
-Browning Nagle
- Rick Kotite
- Blair Thomas
- I could go on forever.......

New York Mets
Highs:
- The 86 World Series
- The 2001 game right after 9/11
- The 69 world series

Lows
- Back to back chokers in 2007 & 2008.
- Carlos Beltran
- Losing the 2006 NLCS.
- The wilpons becoming majority owners.
- CitiField

Seahawks:

High: Beating the Saints in the Wild Card game last week (the only reason i dont count the 2005 NFCCG win vs. Carolina is because of my low)

Low: Super Bowl XL

Celtics:
High: 2008 Finals win vs. the hated Lakers
Low: Game 7 of the Finals last year

Flames:

High: Beating the Sharks in the 2004 Western Conference Finals (this beats the 89 Cup win because I live in San Jose)

Low: Game 6, 2004 Stanley Cup - Gelinas' goal that didn't count and losing the game in OT with the Cup in the building

Giants:

High: 2010 World Series Champs

Low: Game 6, 2002 World Series

Yep. I think the death of Reggie Lewis was the lowest for me, as it was also the moment that really turned my Celtics fandom to nothing more than very casual.

As for the Broncos:
High: Super Bowl XXXII. I still have fond memories of all the people who predicted a Packers blowout having to eat crow.
Low: 1996 playoff debacle against Jacksonville. They really could/should have won three in a row.

college basketball

duke bluedevils

low point - 1990
just getting hammered by the pro team from vegas for the championship (this was the first year i ever followed college basketball as i saw hurley and mcafferty at the daper dan in pittsburgh the previous year and just followed them from the program of that game). also anytime they lose to carolina.

highpoint - anytime they beat carolina. championships while are a highpoint im much more content to see them compete with every team out there even though they never have a athlete (since hill or t davis back in the 90s)

NBA - lakers 2peat and three peat in the past decade
lowpoint - magic having to retire. i remember pulling off to the side of the road when they were announcing it and i was just stunned

hockey -
highpoint - seeing the pens win 3 cups
lowpoint - worrying about the team being sold to mr blackberry and leaving town

The Tim Duncan thing was just crushing as a C's fan. For that entire season they were tanking we thought about having Duncan next year, and then Pitino came here to coach Duncan. We had like 2 of the top 3 picks as far as lottery chances go, and Duncan goes to a team that was already good and just bad for one year because of injuries. We end up with Billups who they traded like 3 months later and Ron Mercer.

Bruins (hardcore fan until about 1993)

High: 88 and 90 Cup Runs, including finally beating Montreal
Low: WESLEY MISSED THE NET!!! To this day, I'll argue Glen Wesley sucked because he missed that fucking net. Doesn't matter that he played another 17 years, that one moment defined him for me.

Canucks (1993 on)

High: 94 Cup Run, including the 3-1 comeback against the Flames ending with Bure's game winner in OT of game 7, then forcing a game 7 after being down 3-1 to the Rangers
Low: Getting hosed in game 7 of said Cup Run, signing Mark Messier a few years later

Red Sox

High: 2004...no explanation needed
Low: Boone, Buckner

Dolphins
High: see 4/5
Low: see 4/5

Falcons - last 3 years regular season... 1998 Superbowl appearance (really the high point was beating the 15-1 Vikings in the Metrodome, then beating the Packers at Lambeau in Mike Vick's first year in the playoffs.... also getting to the NFC championship game (though the loss to the Eagles sucked)

Lows of the Low. - 1998 Superbowl, 1999 Jamal Anderson Knee explosion. Michael Vick's injury in 2004 (led to qbing by Doug Johnson and Kurt Kittner which let me to embarass myself saying things that shouldn't be said in public about their states of existance).... Michael Vick's dogfighting etc etc. (Includes Bobby Petrino... Joey Harrington and something called Byron Leftwich....yes horrible) 2007 was one of the low points in history.

Saturday Night.... Since Danny White beat the #1 seeded Falcons in 1980 they hadn't had a better opportunity to win a superbowl.... Skullfucked again as the #1 seed the second time in team history.

Thrashers - Entire history of the team is a low. This season so far is a high. Specifics, Dany Heatley the teams best player killing a guy and then shitting on the franchise.... then losing Kovalchuk....although it proved excellent that he turned down the money here.

Hawks... getting the 4 seed I guess was a high. Dominique and Spud Webb i n the early 90's.... other than that total crap. Last year's regular season was a lot of fun, mostly they are so boring no one watches.

Braves - Lows.... the 1980's (except Dale Murphy) Highs the 1990's in the regular season specifically 1991 and 1992 vs the Pirates in the NLCS.

Significant Lows -1991... and we'll see you tomorrow night. Jack Morris... the 1994 strike... losing to the Phillies in 1993....

Super low... Wholers to Leyritz blowing the 1996 World Series to the Yankees (and then the faceplant in 1999)

Other Highs - 1995 - the only professional championship in the history of Atlanta....but it still wasn't as special as 1991.



If you notice the theme, there are quite a few good regular seasons in the history of Atlanta sports teams.... They ALL WET THE BED in the playoffs... the only exception 1995 when they beat a fantastic Indians team.

Peeps, what about the Laettner shot to beat Kentucky?

Bobby Hurley and crew.... Wojo.... Grant...Langdon... Cherokee Parks...

Duke in the early 90's was mostly ridiculously awesome....they won last year and they probably win again this year.

Really the ACC regular season and ACC Tournaments were tremendous in the 90's.

oh, thats a highpoint no doubt. i was playing basketball at st ceilia and when we left went to my cousins house. i took a shit then walked into the room where everyone was giving me shit about duke going to lose to kentucky. i said, games not over. hill throws the pass, laet catches, pivots scores. eveyone was dead quiet. i left the room by saying, see...



had hurley not been in that car wreck i think he could easily have been another billups. wojo and langdon were great college players (and wojo a good coach) while parks was his own person. i used to play pickup at his highschool (i want to say it was mater dei?)



there are a few teams out there that no matter who they have are up for arguments about making a deep run in the tourney, coach k, msu, uconn being a small handfull. i just love college ball and will watch just about any team play any team, well, cept UNC

i cant complain at all about duke (other than that poor showing with UNLV) and i cant really say one point is higher than the other. back to back championships was impressive to say the least, but id be a fool to say luck didnt play a part in it

Probably the best team in Indian history too. Ugh.

I'm assuming you're too young to remember. But if not, how in the world can you rank this higher than 1984?

By the way, I skipped out on a wedding reception for my best friend and college roommate to catch the end of that Yankees' series as well.

Philadelphia Flyers:
Highs:
2004- Being at the Flyers-Senators brawl in March
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flyers%E2% ... tors_brawl
2010-Becoming only the fourth professional sports team in North America to come back from 3-0 in a series
Mid-Late '90s-Legion of Doom
Lows:
2006-2007-Worst season in team history
2004-Losing to Tampa in the ECFs (the only time I've ever cried after a sports loss)
Late '90s-The fall of Eric Lindros
2004-2005-Lockout

Philadelphia Phillies:
Highs:
2008-Present- Obvious reasons of awesomeness
'90s-'00s-Mike Lieberthal
2003-Going to the Phillies last victory at Veterans Stadium
2011-The Phantastic Four
Lows:
2009-Losing one of the greatest sportscasters of all time, Harry Kalas
1990s-The '93 Ws to 2001, when they started winning again

Philadelphia Eagles:
Highs:
The Donovan McNabb Era (except 2009)
The Michael Vick Era (2010)
2000s-Going to 5 NFC Championship games
Lows:
Never winning a Super Bowl

Philadelphia 76ers:
Highs:
Allen Iverson
2001 Finals against the Lakers
Lows:
Every season since then

Michigan Football:
Highs:
1997 Title
Lows:
Firing of Lloyd Carr
Not winning the Big Ten since '04

Not sure why this one is one here.

at the time it was appropriate and probably necessary, but he's the guy I grew up watching patrol the sidelines...it was not his actual firing or losing him as head coach, just the end of him at Michigan

I probably should have said "Lloyd Carr's final game as head coach beating Heisman Winner Tebow and Urban Meyer in their bowl game."

Minnesota Twins

Highs- 87/91 WS champs, Puckett's game 6 home run in 91, Jack Morris' CG SO in game 7 of 91, Target Field, contenders for much of the 00s, beating the Tigers for the AL Central in 09 in game 163 (one of the greatest modern games).
Lows- Kirby Puckett's career ending abruptly, late 90s teams, contraction talk at turn of the century, one-and-done playoffs for Gardenhire teams (especially the complete no-shows versus the yankees), losing to the White Sox in the extra game for the AL Central in 08 (a game that should have been played in Minnesota based on HtH instead of being decided by coin flip; that rule was changed for 2009).

Minnesota Vikings

Highs- 15-1 in 1998, Randy Moss, beating Packers at Lambeau in 2004-5 playoffs (Randy Moss mooning incident, too), Adrian Peterson, 2009 and Brett Favre
Lows- 1998-9 NFC CG loss to Atlanta after Gary Anderson missed his first field goal all year, 41-0 2000-1 NFC CG loss to the Giants, MNF loss to Packers via Antonio Freeman's ridiculous catch on the ground, Red McCombs, final reg season loss to 3-12 Arizona on last play of game (a 4th and 25 TD pass) to lose both the NFC North championship (after being at top for the entire season) and a playoff spot in 2003, Culpepper blowing out his knee and the Love Boat scandal in 2005, Brad Childress, 2009-10 NFC CG loss to the Saints in a game the Vikings absolutely gave away (fumbles, 12 men on the field, Favre's terrible pick), the fucking weird season that was 2010.

Saints:
hi: super bowl (duh)
low: starting 5-0 one year and missing the playoffs. Jim Mora sucked sometimes.

Tennessee:
hi:Winning the Championship ten year ago.
low: losing to Florida every year.

NY Giants:

High: 2007 Super Bowl (easily the high point of my entire sport life)
Low: Ray Handley, Dave Brown

NY Mets:

High: 1986 World Series
Low: Losing to the Yankees in the 2000 World Series

Villanova

High: 1985 NCAA Championship
Low: Phantom travel call against UNC in tournament (I forget the yr)