Best of 3 competition

[elwoodblues]

Pick 1 city and the best of their historical teams from Baseball, Basketball, and Football. Which city fares the best?

My suspicion is Chicago with the '85 Bears, one of the Jordan years of the Bulls, and some random cubs or sox team (I don't follow baseball at all.)

[Rick Diesel]

As much as I would hate to say so, I would take Boston, with the current Patriots, current Red Sox, and one of the Celtics teams with Bird, Mchale, Parish, D.J., Ainge, etc.

[whiskeytown]

San Francisco...

couple divisional titles in baseball....3 Superbowls....who gives a [censored] about basketball...

RB

[anisotropy]

Philadelphia:

1980 Phillies
1974 Flyers
1983 Sixers
2004 Eagles

Any city with a halfway decent sports tradition will be able to put together a very good list (Boston, New York, Chicago, Philly, et al.)

[M2d]

any answer that doesn't contain new york, for the combined efforts of the yankees, dodgers, giants, jets and knicks is not worth reading.

[istewart]

Pittsburgh, 1979 is one.

[snowden719]

There is an obviously correct answer and it has already been said, '85 Chicago Bears, best football team ever, 1906 Cubs that went 116-36 and one of the 5 best baseball teams ever, and the best basketball team of all time the 72-10 Bulls from the 95-96 season. Best football team, best basketball team, top 5 baseball team, it's Chicago in a walk.

[Koller]

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any answer that doesn't contain new york, for the combined efforts of the yankees, dodgers, giants, jets and knicks is not worth reading.

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+ Islanders (and Rangers)

[Shajen]

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any answer that doesn't contain new york, for the combined efforts of the yankees, dodgers, giants, jets and knicks is not worth reading.

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Any answer that contains these teams isn't worth reading.

(Hey, that is fun. I'll have to do that more often)

[Koller]

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Pick 1 city and the best of their historical teams from Baseball, Basketball, and Football.

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oops!

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[M2d]

well, here in the US, we like leagues that are actually active.

[Koller]

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well, here in the US, we like leagues that are actually active.




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[Bulldog]

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Philadelphia:

1980 Phillies
1974 Flyers
1983 Sixers
2004 Eagles

Any city with a halfway decent sports tradition will be able to put together a very good list (Boston, New York, Chicago, Philly, et al.)

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I'm from the Philly area, but I still have to say this is a weak list. The 1949 or 1960 Eagles would be a better choice than 2004, unless they win convincingly on Sunday. And the 1980 Phillies? They won the division on the next-to-last day of the season, squeaked through the NLCS with four extra-inning games winning the series 3-2, then beat an ordinary Royals' team in the Series.

[RogerZBT]

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There is an obviously correct answer and it has already been said, '85 Chicago Bears, best football team ever, 1906 Cubs that went 116-36 and one of the 5 best baseball teams ever, and the best basketball team of all time the 72-10 Bulls from the 95-96 season. Best football team, best basketball team, top 5 baseball team, it's Chicago in a walk.

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Any answer other than this one isn't worth reading.

[anisotropy]

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I'm from the Philly area, but I still have to say this is a weak list. The 1949 or 1960 Eagles would be a better choice than 2004, unless they win convincingly on Sunday. And the 1980 Phillies? They won the division on the next-to-last day of the season, squeaked through the NLCS with four extra-inning games winning the series 3-2, then beat an ordinary Royals' team in the Series.

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I almost went with the 1960 Eagles, and probably should have no matter how the current incarnation does on Sunday. As for the Phillies, they are the losingest team in the history of professional sports, so there's not much to choose from. I don't know any other year to choose. 1993? No way. 1964? That's probably more appropriate for Philly, but 1980 is the only ones to win it all.

[Bluffoon]

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There is an obviously correct answer and it has already been said, '85 Chicago Bears, best football team ever, 1906 Cubs that went 116-36 and one of the 5 best baseball teams ever, and the best basketball team of all time the 72-10 Bulls from the 95-96 season. Best football team, best basketball team, top 5 baseball team, it's Chicago in a walk.

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Any answer other than this one isn't worth reading.

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I'll give you the basketball team, but the Bears were not that great. Cmon Jim Mcmahon? Great defense but just another in a list of ok teams that had a good year.

And baseball... 1906 ???? What did they stuff the ball with feathers or something back then... Oh wait that was golf, still.... Any one of ten Yankees teams were far better than any chicago team from 1906.

[Shajen]

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but the Bears were not that great. Cmon Jim Mcmahon? Great defense but just another in a list of ok teams that had a good year.

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Were you in a coma in 1985? I mean, seriously. An ok team having a good year?

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[Bluffoon]

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but the Bears were not that great. Cmon Jim Mcmahon? Great defense but just another in a list of ok teams that had a good year.

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Were you in a coma in 1985? I mean, seriously. An ok team having a good year?

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The 85 bears I would compare to the ravens of a couple of years ago. Great defense, ok offense. Jim Mcmahon is a bum, sorry. I'd rather have Trent Dilfer as my Quarterback.

[RogerZBT]

Funny... I think the basketball team is less dominant that the football team. The '85 Bears were absolute MACHINE. If the biggest beef is McMahon, I'll take it.

Think about it this way. Is there any city that has teams that are in the top 10 all time in their sport? The ONLY city to qualify is Chicago with those 3 teams.

[jstnrgrs]

This is not even close:
1872 Braves
1873 Braves
1874 Braves
1875 Braves
1977 Braves
1878 Braves
1883 Braves
1891 Braves
1903 Red Sox
1912 Red Sox
1914 Braves
1915 Red Sox
1916 Red Sox
1918 Red Sox
1928 Providence Steam Roller
1956-57 Celtics
1958-59 Celtics
1959-60 Celtics
1960-61 Celtics
1961-62 Celtics
1962-63 Celtics
1963-64 Celtics
1964-65 Celtics
1965-66 Celtics
1967-68 Celtics
1968-69 Celtics
1973-74 Celtics
1975-76 Celtics
1980-81 Celtics
1983-84 Celtics
1985-86 Celtics
2001 Patriots
2003 Patriots
2004 Red Sox
2004 Patriots (after this Sunday)

[Shajen]

kind of a small gap there for wins in baseball though.

[RogerZBT]

What does that prove? That Boston has ~30 championships total? That's great. The Yankees alone have nearly that much. The discussion was about the best team from each sport that each city had to offer.

[Corey]

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San Francisco...
couple divisional titles in baseball....3 Superbowls....who gives a [censored] about basketball...


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Better choice would've been Bay Area:
Oakland's 1970's 3-peaters
Niners of the 80s
Rick Berry era of the Warriors.

As a homer, it's tough to admit that my teams pale in comparison to other cities.

[IndieMatty]

69 NY (Jets, Mets, Knicks)