Here's one championship title we Cleveland fans can grasp and proudly hold aloft: Most Miserable. Boston fans no longer have their Curse to bemoan--and anyway, they've got those Patriots Super Bowl trophies. (Aargh!--Bill Belichick!) Chicago fans? Don't start. The Cubs, yes--but what about all those unbeatable Bulls teams? (Ugh!--The Shot!) No, Cleveland owns bragging rights when it comes to the biggest, longest, worst drought in professional sports championships. And it's not just The Fumble, The Drive, The Catch, Game Seven, and all our other big-game losses. We've endured enough bad luck, dumb trades, dud draft picks, and just plain goofy moments to keep us crying in our beers for decades. And they're all collected here. Could this little book end the worst championship drought in major league sports? Honestly, no. But it will give you something fun to read while you're waiting for the Browns, the Tribe, the Cavs, or someone in Cleveland to finally win the Big One! It may not take away the misery, but at least it offers a little humor to go with the groans!
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A great litttle book . . . captures the pain we've all suffered as Cleveland sports fans -- Kenny Roda; WKNR Sportstalk 850 AM, December 2, 2005
About the Author
Tim Long, a native Clevelander, is a graduate of St. Edward High School, John Carroll University, and Cleveland State Graduate School of Business. As a youth he became infected with serious cases of “Indians Fever” and “Browns Blues,” and learned quickly that rooting for Cleveland teams is not for the faint of heart. A Cleveland sports memorabilia collector and student of Cleveland sports for more than 30 years, he is also the author of Browns Memories, Indians Memories, and The Cleveland Sports Trivia Quiz.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Curses! Why Cleveland Sports Fans Deserve to Be Miserable: A Lifetime of Tough Breaks, Bad Luck, Goofs, Gaffes, and Blunders (Paperback)
this has some great anecdotal stories for those of us who grew up with the misery that accompanies being a cleveland sports fan but, by no means, is it good literature. it's entertaining, if not somewhat confounding because of the memories that it dredges up, if you want some light bathroom reading.
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Just What We Needed!,
This review is from: Curses! Why Cleveland Sports Fans Deserve to Be Miserable: A Lifetime of Tough Breaks, Bad Luck, Goofs, Gaffes, and Blunders (Paperback)
I don't believe in curses but something has been going on in Cleveland sports for most of my life and it hasn't been good. Finally someone has put the crazy, absurd and disappointing down on paper and I think it's great. I was too young to remember Herb Score and my family talks about Rocky Colavito like he was a saint. I remember I cried as a little kid when Brian Sipe's pass ended up as "Red Right 88". But there's other neat stuff in this book that's funny and not so well known that helps us Cleveland sports fans deal with our plight. Curses! is a fun and easy book that's a must for every Clevelander, sports fan or not.
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This review is from: Curses! Why Cleveland Sports Fans Deserve to Be Miserable: A Lifetime of Tough Breaks, Bad Luck, Goofs, Gaffes, and Blunders (Paperback)
Like the other reviewer said, this is good for light bathroom reading, but there's absolutely nothing in here that a Cleveland sports fan wouldn't already know. I suppose the younger you are, the better it might be, because you weren't around for a lot of the stuff. But Long is definitely "short" (har har) on details. This is mostly just a collection of news items.
(Also, the title is a bit misleading, in my opinion. It doesn't explain "Why Cleveland Sports Fans Deserve to Be Miserable." It explains why they are miserable, but the way it's worded makes it sound like the book will be a narrative that attmepts to justify the statement that Cleveland did something to bring this on itself. Nothing in here about that, just unrelated anecdotes that start and stop as if Long had just clipped them from newspaper columns.) Nothing particularly wrong with Curses. It's just unspectacular all around.
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