Seattle tops list of most miserable sports cities

Congratulations Seattle! The city is finally number one!

Bummer thing is this isn't a list you want to be number one on.

Seattle has been named the most miserable sports city in America.

Here's what the list was based on.

Where have U.S. sports fans suffered the most misery? Not futility, but the heartbreak that comes from building fans' hopes up only to let them down in the end. Sticking to sports towns with at least 75 cumulative seasons in the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball, we rank each by playoff failures (the deeper you lose in the playoffs, the more misery points) and championship droughts.

And here's why Seattle is number one:

Teams: Seahawks, Mariners, Sonics
Championship round record: 1-3
Semifinal round record: 4-7
Total Seasons/championships: 111/1
Last title: 1979

This year's 7-9 Seahawks snagged a bogus home playoff game thanks to a faulty seeding system that rewarded them for winning a weak division, but they promptly lost in Chicago the following week. Meantime, Kevin Durant and the Sonics are in Oklahoma City, and the Mariners, losers of 101 games last year, are still trying to reach a World Series after three trips to the ALCS. We're not counting the one-year run of baseball's Pilots in 1969.

Can you say ouch?

OUCH.

Here's the rest of the top 10.

2. Atlanta
3. Phoenix
4. Buffalo
5. San Diego
6. Houston
7. Kansas City
8. Cleveland
9. Denver
10. Cincinnati

Things that bug me about Seattle sports fans...

1. Winning is not life or death - There's a general "gee whiz, we're glad to be here" feeling from Seattle fans with their major professional teams (Mariners, Seahawks, Sonics... oh, oh wait). In Boston or New York, any sign of weakness is treated with a general outcry and an increase in the suicide rate. Seattle fans are just happy to have teams and talk about things like "how much they just love coming out to the ballpark" and "it's just great to root on the team."

In other words, it's a cheap owner's dream.

2. Fans are not critical of their teams - Now granted fans of Boston and New York can go way overboard with this, and I would dare say that the intense media pressure put on the Red Sox went a long way in the so-called curse. But in Seattle you can't say anything negative about the hometown teams unless they're in last place of their division. Take the Griffey signing... it hasn't exactly panned out, but you wont hear a peep about it. Now if you switch the tables and look at David Ortiz in Boston and fans are wondering when they're going to move him down in the lineup or out of it altogether. Nothing personal, Ortiz did a lot for the Red Sox, but you can't have the third batter in the lineup be hitting .220 with no home runs.

3. Fans expect bad things to happen, but dont complain about them - Fans knew the 2001 Seattle Mariners weren't winning the World Series. They won 116 games and yet everyone was reserved to the fact that they wouldn't make it through the post-season. And it wasn't as if they were dreading it either, they were just grateful the team had won 116 games. That's great loyalty, but what does it say for your franchise when a team finishes a season with the most wins in the history of baseball and their fans still can't get excited for the postseason?

And it's different from Boston pre-2004 - when fans sat shell-shocked in Fenway Park, expecting the world to come crashing down. It weighed above them emotionally.

Meanwhile in Seattle, everyone just shrugged their shoulders and went hiking.

So what bugs you about Seattle fans?