The curse of Atlanta sports
We're doomed ..... Abandon hope all ye who play here.
There's this apparent cloud of evil that hangs over virtually ever franchise in the Atlanta sports market — an ominously sinister presence that looks for the right opportunity to strike down any hopes of a turnaround.
Atlanta remains this funny anomaly where nearly all the pro teams are in a perpetual rebuilding year, a practice that dates back to the days when someone got the idea for a pick-up game in some moldering post-Civil War parking lot.
Every season, owners and coaches and players talk this fantastic party line about capitalizing on the success of the previous season. For once they're going to get their act together, win some games, bring it on big time.
Ok; I'm still waiting to see it happen out of some of you.
As hard as it might be to believe, I'm really a homer at heart for the majority of our locals. I enjoy the Braves (even when they don't have a post season), the Thrashers are fun, the Falcons are sorry and occasionally entertaining and our minor-league sports are fantastic and getting better everyday.
But come on ... how much can we be expected to put up with? If you haven't noticed, Charlie Brown eventually stopped trying to kick that lousy football, ok? There's really only so much that we can tolerate before we've more than had our fill.
This immediately ended campaign of the Atlanta Falcons is kind of the final straw for me. I've decided that for whatever reason, the team's ownership is simply no longer willing to do what it takes to win regular seasons back-to-back let alone the big one. What would it take, you ask? Well for starters, get the heck out of the way, stop meddling with key decisions and leave the heavy lifting to people who know what they're doing. Geez ... how hard is that to do?
And now another key sport leadership figure is getting out, someone with the integrity to know when the good 'ol days are done. Gosh, could it be that he wanted to maintain the clearly defined roles of the front offices that work? Why is that such a hard thing to do around here?
This city is full of fickle fans, move-ins and others who couldn't care less. I guess we've become a town where people are much more interested in seeing their favorite teams come to beat up the local heroes. Maybe that's happening more and more in other markets, but we're really in the high times of that trend here. It's just kind of a shame, but can you blame everyone for giving up after season upon season of disappointment?
I'm not going to give up on heading downtown to see the pros, but I'm much more likely to stay close to home to see the minor leagues doing it for pride. At least, I'll be close to the action ... even if they lose.
In your rant about pro teams in Atlanta you forgot about our nba team (not hard to do) which only furthers your point
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Atlanta is a city of business -not sports or civic pride. Most folks here are more proud of Coca-Cola and Delta than they are of the Falcons, Hawks, Braves or Thrashers. Front offices are run accordingly -and the results are what you would expect.
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