Sentences with phrase «playoff team fans»

Not exact matches

If you're a fan of a team with a fringe chance of making the playoffs, consider the prudent thought of placing an emotional hedge bet, so that if your postseason hopes crash and burn on Sunday you'll at least make a profit off of your misery.

In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anyway.

And his team has consistently responded, winning games and a playoff series it wasn't supposed to win, at least according to fans or odds makers.

Of course, all of that would easily be fixed if the NCAA would just move to the one thing most fans want — an 8 - team playoff.

After an overachieving season with rookie Andrew Luck at the helm, Colts fans don't have much to complain about, even after the team's elimination from the playoffs at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens.

While Ravens fans can bask in their playoff victory, SB Nation's Baltimore Ravens blog, Baltimore Beat Down, asks the team to get ready to go back to work because another (and tougher) challenge awaits this weekend.

I'm not saying that I think Mularkey is a great or even good HC, but to essentially hope the team you are a fan of loses in the Playoffs is as my 3 - year - old daughter likes to say, «That's silly.

Despite this being the team's first playoff appearance since 2000, Bills fans are treating Sunday's Wild Card showdown like any other game — by putting each other through tables.

Both of these teams» fans should appreciate this experience after a 17 - year playoff drought in Buffalo and 10 years without a bid in Jacksonville.

This is a great time of the year for sports fans — and especially sports investors — as the baseball season is starting up, the hockey playoffs are heating up, and NBA teams are jockeying...

While offense rules the regular season, the perception among fans is that once the playoffs begin, teams turn up the defensive pressure.

Even though this Cincinnati Reds fan was probably upset that her team lost 6 - 4 and was bounced from the MLB playoffs, she...

Even though this Cincinnati Reds fan was probably upset that her team lost 6 - 4 and was bounced from the MLB playoffs, she can't be too disappointed after butt tapping San Francisco Giant's Brandon Belt.

Cubs fans can thank Jake Arrieta and a trio of dingers for keeping their team in the playoffs.

It's impossible to predict every little breakthrough (a hundred years ago, we'd never have envisioned painless dentistry, the designated hitter or Thighmaster), but we're expert enough (in sports, not so much medicine) to forecast that Vince McMahon's WWF will become the umbrella organization that regulates all major league sports (except for boxing, which will continue to be guided by good sense alone), and outcomes will be scripted to provide total fan satisfaction (read: fireworks, near - naked women on every sideline, no 8 - 8 playoff teams ever and especially no Yankees championships).

The reason so many Sixers» fans were on board with the process was because prior to that the team either didn't make the playoffs or was a 6 - 8 seed.

Both teams might make the playoffs, but for Boston fans this marks another category where the Red Sox are in the lead in addition to that whole divisional race thing.

The business model says to have a competitive team, make the playoffs every year, give the fans a little hope but never win it all.

Either way, we're getting another LCS round team that hasn't won a World Series in a long time (the Dodgers won in «88; the Nats, as you sussed out from never winning any playoff series, have never won at all), and that means a fan base's heart is breaking louder than usual Thursday.

Two days before the team's home playoff opener against the Atlanta Hawks, Wall and Beal joined hundreds of fans to celebrate the unveiling of the new and improved Ben's Chili Bowl mural.

Fans of teams in the Playoff will likely expect a national championship trip in the second week of January and have little incentive to travel for the undercard game the week before.

but there are 30 nba teams and 16 make the playoffs --- so 14 teams and their fan bases are required to experience the pain and agony of missing the playoffs while the 16 who made it are overjoyed.

Just like the Mavs swept the reigning champion Lakers out of last year's playoffs, the Thunder did the same to them, which OKC fans have to consider a good omen for a team with championship - or - bust type expectations.

After years of complaints about the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), the NCAA has finally caved into the wishes of fans nationwide by implementing a 4 - team playoff.

What many NorCal fans don't realize, the Southern Section has a long history of moving teams into a stronger playoff division once they've proven dominant at the lower playoff division.

Many college football fans have long rebelled against the thought of an eight - or 16 - team FBS playoff because of what it would do to the luster of the regular season.

While the Nuggets aren't a fundamentally different team if they finish as the No. 8 seed or end up a loss or two away from it, a playoff berth is crucial for ownership, for the fan base, and everyone involved.

Although the team was bounced from the playoffs in the divisional round (in large part due to an injury to quarterback Matt Schaub), the Texans have been deemed a sleeper Super Bowl contender by fans and analysts alike.

Although the matchup isn't riveting for non-NHL fans, there are star players (Crosby, Malkin, Kessel, Thornton, Pavelski), an up - and - coming head coach (Mike Sullivan), and two young goaltenders (Murray, Jones) who have led their teams throughout the playoffs.

On Saturday night, most fans and teams around the nation will be hoping for Wisconsin to lose which would open up the playoff field for others.

Fans just want hope and don't want folks to tell them their team is terrible.The Ravens did struggle with playoff bound teams and even had problems with others.

After years of complaints about the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), last season the NCAA finally caved into the long time wishes of College Football fans by implementing a 4 - team playoff.

The team celebrated the Packers playoff - clinching win over the Bears on Sunday in their Orlando hotel, except for one Chicago Bears fan wearing a Matt Forte jersey, who was lost in a word of sadness.

2: which playoff teams falls out next year 3: Who gets the most heat from pens fans next year Bonus question: who gets Dahlin, Edmonton, Edmonton or Edmonton?

Now their fans won't have to endlessly relive the memories of a collapse that baseball had never seen before, one where the top team in the majors played so poorly in the second half — and not the mathematical second half, either, since this is baseball we're talking about — that they missed out on the playoffs entirely.

The Pride fans came out deep to support this team and you can count me in to be on the bandwagon for the Pride as they are exciting to watch and I look forward to see how far they can go in CIF playoffs.

This also provides a huge boost to some of the smaller teams, particularly those that haven't made much of a run in the playoffs, as rooting for them suddenly get's easier when they represent an area near your home, giving those teams fans they might have never had before.

Yes, of course, we as fans would like to win them but more important is that the team are primed, focussed and ready to attack the playoff's head on.

Let's face it Bills fans, except for a miraculous play in the Ravens game, this team is not a playoff team.

Leeds is a sinking ship, and while the playoff places are a distant memory for Leeds fans, the point remains that while the pressure to make the playoffs might be off Heckingbottom, the pressure remains to actually look like a team that could, one day, actually make the playoffs.

With college basketball championships underway, pro basketball playoff teams taking shape, Spring training for baseball and the pro-football draft coming to kick, sports fans are in heaven!

Kelly is a fan of the Houston Texans, and he watched his team get knocked out of the playoffs 30 - 0 by the Kansas City Chiefs.

From a between - innings stretch to collect recyclables to discount tickets for transit riders to green giveaways, Major League Baseball clubs put an eco-friendly twist on many ballpark traditions for Earth Day — activities that will continue throughout the month and even, in some cases, all the way to the playoff chase.Instead of a bobblehead figure of their favorite player or a team - logoed «rally towel,» fans entering the stadiums of the Cincinnati Reds, the Cleveland Indians, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the San Diego Padres, the San Francisco Giants, and the Texas Rangers on special days during the season receive reusable shopping bags, metal water bottles, or baseball caps made entirely from recycled plastic.

So did some numb Green Bay Packer fans who watched their team get frozen out of the NFL playoffs by the San Francisco 49ers in near - zero temperatures, Israeli residents confined to homes by three feet of snow that fell in Jerusalem as the worst winter storm in decades swept through the Middle East, and a group of Australian climate scientists hell - bent upon documenting global warming aboard a Russian ship that got dangerously trapped in Antarctic sea ice.

Fans can get an all - access peek into the Florida Panthers» playoff push when «Home Team: Florida Panthers» debuts Thursday morning at 10 a.m. on Facebook, YouTube and NHL.com.

However, if you are a dedicated fan, is it so unreasonable to grow your own playoff beard, in solidarity and support of your team's efforts?