Toughest championship to win?

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What is the hardest championship to win in North America?

  • The NFL's Super Bowl (Basketball)

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  • The NHL's Stanley Cup (Hockey)

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  • The MLB's World Series (Baseball)

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  • The NBA's Larry O Brien Trophy (Basketball)

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MikeRaw

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Out of the 4 Major sports in North America (basketball, baseball, football, hockey), which do you think has the hardest championship to earn? Is it the Stanley Cup? The Super Bowl? The World Series? Larry O Brien Championship? What do you think actually takes the most out of you to win, emotionally and physically? Take into account the actions you have to go through with your body to win it, the amount of games played, the effort it takes, the roles of the players, etc.
It's pretty tough IMO.
-On one hand, the World Series is tough, because you have to play 162 games, and it's tough as hell to even get in the playoffs, with so few spots. Even good teams miss the playoffs, then when you get in, you have to win alot of games.
-The Super Bowl, despite having not many games to get there, with only 16 season games, and playoffs being played in single-elimination, and not series', it still takes alot, because despite the lack of games, each game takes alot out of you. It's arguably the most gruelling sport of the 4 (tied with Hockey)
-The NBA Championship (see the NHL Stanley Cup)
-The Stanley Cup is extremely tough as well. It has 82 games, while being the same, or ever so slightly less grueling on the body as football, while, like I said, having over 5 times the amount of games. It also has 4 series in the playoffs, which, to win the Cup, may take you an additional 28 games on top of the 82 of the regular season. Games can also be closer than basketball or baseball.

To me, it's down to the NHL Stanley Cup, and the NFL Super Bowl. No disrespect to baseball or basketball, but, despite their large schedules, I feel they lack the same grinding and physical elements that hockey and football do. And this is coming from a baseball fan (Baseball is my 2nd favorite sport).

Out of the Super Bowl and Stanley Cup, I think I'm gonna have to go with the Stanley Cup.
82 games is more than the 16 that NFL teams play, and it has ALMOST the same amount of physicality per game as an NFL game. Multiply that by 82. Plus, in the playoffs, the 4 rounds of up to 7 games per round makes your chances of winning less, because even if you go up and win the first game of the series, you still have to win 3 more to advance.

That's my opinion, what's yours?
 

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There is only one possible answer to this and that is the Super Bowl there is no other choice besides that. Every other sport you have a 7 game series in NFL it is 1 game that you either win or you lose. You have to play your best and there are no second chances. You give your all for the Superbowl while in another sport you have to disperse it over 7 games.
 

Wordlife

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^I have to agree with that... but I was going to put the NHL championship but you brought up a damn good point there
 

MikeRaw

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There is only one possible answer to this and that is the Super Bowl there is no other choice besides that. Every other sport you have a 7 game series in NFL it is 1 game that you either win or you lose. You have to play your best and there are no second chances. You give your all for the Superbowl while in another sport you have to disperse it over 7 games.

I guess it just depends how you look at it.
You can look at it the way you did, where, the 1 game series makes it harder to win, because you only have once chance, and you have to bring your A game or you're out.
But you can also look at it, like I do as, ther'es th epossibility for a fluke, because it's only one game. A 7 game series makes sure it isn't a flue, and makes sure the best team wins, by several games. It take smore effort, and, again, makes sure there is no fluke.
 

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thats a tough question considering there are around 30 teams in each league (idk about hockey) id say they are all about the same. im leaning towards the superbowl cause there are so many more players that effect your team and you have to go out and sign a lot more players who allow you to win. but all teams in each sport have to get the same amount of players so i guess that might not have a big effect on it. i guess ill go with football because even the number one seeds rarely win it.