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North Carolina sports might be at an all-time low

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Panthers have no quarterback and are about to be blown up.

Canes suck and haven't won in seven games I believe.

Bobcats couldn't even score 60 tonight and lost by a million points.

DUKE might have the best football team in the state.

Tar Heels are about to start a scary new world without Tyler Hansbrough.

Um...we kind of suck everywhere.

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One of my dearest friends is a Newcastle supporter. Trust me, until you see your once great (or at least very good) team go through relegation, you know no pain.

Thank God no American sport makes our teams suffer so much.

I always knew about relegation, but not being a footie fan I don't pay much attention. Newcastle though? OUCH.

And for those of you not in the know, the English Premier League is like the NFL over there. But they also have lower divisions with smaller/crappier clubs. Sort of like minor leagues in a way. If a team doesn't perform well enough...they get booted to the lower league! It'd be like the Braves going down to AAA for an entire season or the Panthers being moved to Arena League! :lol:

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this is definitely true, you could maybe even add Braves' woes to this as most baseball fans in North Carolina are Braves fans. sucks to be us.

I will never, ever, EVER, in my life, root for a team from the city of Atlanta.

If the braves were playing the russians, I'm rooting for the russian.

I hate that city and its teams like nothing else.

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One of my dearest friends is a Newcastle supporter. Trust me, until you see your once great (or at least very good) team go through relegation, you know no pain.

Thank God no American sport makes our teams suffer so much.

Newcastle were never great. They were barely good. They're not a successful team, they just have a lot of deluded supporters because it's a big city.

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