Introducing The Philly Sports Bracket of Pain
With March Madness being entirely non-existent in 2020, the need for tournaments and brackets is imperative. That’s why Philly Fan Life has decided to throw their hat in the ring of distracting sports fans with bracket content.
Since there’s no current or future sports to talk about at the moment, fans have been looking at the past to get their sports fix. An opportunity to get that wave of nostalgia and escape to the comfort of simpler times.
In Philadelphia there’s plenty of great moments to reminisce about, but for every great moment there’s a bunch of bad ones that outnumber it. To be a diehard sports fan is to know pain, and only few sports towns know pain as well as Philadelphia. It’s place that’s just too small to get the national representation it deserves like New York or Los Angeles, but also big enough to get mocked when things go wrong for the teams or the fans. And they obviously don’t have the championship pedigree to earn respect for the fan’s rabidness the way Boston does.
The numbers speak for themselves: Only two parades have gone down Broad Street since 1983 and each team can only claim two World Championships each since 1960. Amidst the few highs that are never taken for granted, there are plenty of lows, so how about the Philly fans on Twitter take this challenging time to figure what moment was the worst of them all?
Philly Fan Life is proud to present the Philly Sports Bracket of Pain, a 64-member tournament divided into four regions to decide the worst event in Philadelphia Sports History. Will the Eagles recent Super Bowl win be enough to ease the pain of those brutal losses in the NFC Championship game? Will the fresh pain of The Process Era beat out the shockingly bad losses in the 70s and 80s? Can the Flyers crown themselves as the new kings of pain now that they have the longest title drought in the city? And could enough Boomers vote on Twitter to anoint the 1964 Phillies Collapse as the true W.O.A.T.?
Find all that out in the coming days as Philly Fan Life brings you the Tournament of Pain!
Each region will be divided by the four major teams and fans will get to vote for each match-up via a Twitter poll from @PhillyFanLife. Eventually each team will have their own representative in the Final Four and we’ll finally figure what exactly the worst sports moment in the storied history of this city is.
Things may get so depressing that we may to make a Bracket of Joy after this, stay tuned!