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Worst Sports Break-ups

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by DanOregon, Sep 1, 2023.

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  1. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    Seeing the Pac-12 splinter makes me think of other sports entities, teams, whatever that "broke-up" either through stupidity, arrogance, greed, ego or whatever. The CART/IRL split seemed to do serious damage to open-wheel racing in the States that took a while to mend. The Jerry Jones/Jimmy Johnson split is still reverberating through Cowboyland decades later, don't know yet where the PGATour/LIV golf thing goes.
     
    DanOregon, Sep 1, 2023
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  2. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Joe Paterno and Penn State. They're STILL debating it in some circles.
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Sep 1, 2023
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  3. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Bobby Clarke and Eric Lindros.
     
    MisterCreosote, Sep 1, 2023
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  4. franticscribe

    franticscribe Well-Known Member

    I don't think anything can top the CART/IRL split. Open-wheel racing was the most popular form of racing in the United States for decades and the split allowed NASCAR to overtake it. It cratered the sport in a way that it's never fully recovered. The quality of the product today is extremely high, but it just can't break through.
     
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    franticscribe, Sep 1, 2023
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  5. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    Brooklyn and the Dodgers still resonates for old time New Yawkers.

    The Colts moving. The Browns moving (Cleveland not St. Louis.)
     
    maumann, Sep 1, 2023
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  6. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Rangers and Mike Keenan. One Stanley Cup in 83 years, and it was done by the guy who only coached them that one year.
     
    Baron Scicluna, Sep 1, 2023
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  7. da man

    da man Well-Known Member

    Yankees and Billy Martin. Again and again and again and...
     
    da man, Sep 1, 2023
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  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member



    Never realized this song has a 40 sec. intro - dang.
     
    DanOregon, Sep 1, 2023
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  9. Woody Long

    Woody Long Well-Known Member

    The breakup of the Mets and Tom Seaver.
     
    Woody Long, Sep 1, 2023
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  10. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    The Raiders and Oakland I.
    The Raiders and Oakland II.
     
    HanSenSE, Sep 1, 2023
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  11. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    oj and nicole
     
    DanielSimpsonDay, Sep 1, 2023
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  12. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Philadelphia and the A's, in 1915 and 1931, when championship teams were broken up for a variety of reasons, and again in 1954, when the franchise was sold by the Mack brothers after they'd run it into the ground by a combination of stupidity and greed.
     
    micropolitan guy, Sep 1, 2023
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