Which Pro Philly Sports Team Will Win First?

Right now Philly pro sports are at an all time low. Philadelphia's best shot at just making the playoffs for 2015 are a 5-7 Eagles team. Going into the last month of 2015 the best team in Philly was the 63-99 Phillies. Times are truly dark, but I am a glass half full kind guy, and a Philly pro sports team will win a championship by the end of the decade. The point of this blog is just ranking which team has the best chance at winning a championship before 2020.

4. Eagles

Now say this phrase out loud..."And the Super Bowl MVP is Sam Bradford." it just does not sound right. I like Chip Kelly as a coach, as a GM who knows the jury is still out, but the NFL is a QB driven league. Chip was right to role the dice with Bradford, because Foles will never win a Super Bowl. Through almost a full year of the Bradford experiment it does not look like he is not a franchise QB.  Chip understands that, and will continue looking for his guy, but until then the Eagles have the worst shot out of the four teams.

Just saying Sam Bradford looks exactly like a kid on Halloween dressed up as Sam Bradford.


3. Sixers

#InHinkieWeTrust or #TrustTheProcess that is all the Sixer's fan have. After the Sixers got Jah I was pretty cocky talking about how the Sixers will be legit in a few years. I made a bet with a Celtics fan saying the Sixers will win before the C's. With how well the C's have been playing, I may be a little nervous in me losing this bet, just a little. With the Sixers it all rests on next years draft. Ideally the Sixers get the first and the Lakers get the 4th pick, so the Sixers can take their pick and have the first and fourth. Knowing how the NBA draft is rigged I assume the Lakers will get the first overall pick and they get Ben Simmons, while the Sixers end up with the third overall pick again. The reason they are not fourth is they technically will have a shot to get Ben Simmons and that is all you can ask for with the 1-21 Sixers. According to my calculations the 76ers will win in 2021.

2. Phillies

This past season was rock bottom for the Phillies no other way to put it. They had lots of terrible players, or old players, or just assholes (Papelbon.) After the season, however the future looks pretty decent. They do not have an incompetent manager like Sandberg, they have some current major league talent on the roster with Franco and Nola, and currently have a top 10 maybe even top 5 farm system with players like JP Crawford and Jake Thompson. The Phillies are building, and with the number 1 overall pick in this draft the Phillies will have a deep farm system, and willing to pay when they need a player in free agency. The Phillies have a bright future and in 2019 the Phillies are winning it all, you heard it here first.

1. Flyers

The reason the Flyers are number 1 over the other 3 is simply they are farther along in the process. The Flyers already have their leader in the locker room with Captain Claude. They have a legitimate goalie in Mason even if he is struggling a bit right now. The two main reasons the Flyers are legitimate contenders in the near future is the prospects and Hextall. The Flyers main weakness is defense, but all the young guns are coming, and coming quick. Ghost is already one of, if not the best Flyer's defense men on the team, and there are still a slew of others coming. Th real reason I believe the Flyers will be the first to win is Hextall. He is the only GM out of the 4 I fully trust, and there is no close second in my opinion. Hextall helped the Kings win a cup, and he is bringing the same principles to the Flyers. He is building through the draft, and not being short sided and giving big contracts to old players like  a former GM of the Flyers *Cough* Holmgren *Cough.* With the way NHL playoffs are any seed can win, and my prediction is in 2018 the Flyers will be having a parade down Broad Street.


Just for the record if I put college teams in it I have Villanova winning it all this year, but they will probably lose before the sweet sixteen again and just rip my heart out, and make me cry like last year.