dumbest banners in sports

[@FivePointsVids]

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[@Look.me.up.on.youtube]

A light roast doesn't have more caffeine. It's the same as dark roast. I roast coffee for a living.

[@JusNoBS420]

I enjoyed grinding your beans 🫘

[@fredloftonab]

You forgot Oklahoma State and their “national championship” from 1945 that they bought.

[@ST0NE_206]

this one isn’t dumb, but I think the Seattle Kraken hanging up a Metropolitans 1917 Stanley Cup Champions banner is really cool, a nice tribute to that old team

[@willflint5014]

First U.S. team to win a cup as well.

[@AaronOnTheTrails]

They might as well claim it. I mean if the NFL is going to do that charade of the Ravens were an "expansion" team who "began" play in 1996 and the previous Brown's records count for the current team why not?

[@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace]

@@AaronOnTheTrails Baltimore did the same thing when the St. Louis Browns moved there. The Orioles don't recognize any of the Browns records.. and even tho the Browns were basically a cellar dwelling laughing stock for most of their existance, there was a time in the early 1920's where they had a good team (Missed winning the pennant by one game to the Yankees in 1922.) with one of the greatest hitters of all time, George Sisler. And even tho it was during WW2, they did win the AL pennant in 1944. Maybe Baltimore has something against the color brown?

[@AnimalClans]

The current day Ottawa Senators have banners commemorating the 9 Stanley Cups the original Senators won between 1903 and 1927.

[@j.peters1222]

I agree. A cool nod to the previous Seattle team.

[@logan_page]

The Falcons could’ve just said “2017 NFC Champions”

[@terrytitus5291]

That would have been fine

[@GatCat]

I'm sure they have that banner up but I was thinking the same thing.

[@newlife733]

I've been to the stadium for years and can tell you, that is fake.

[@benjaminingram4857]

Falcons are not an winning team who is surprised.😲

[@Kaliphate]

As a Mariner's fan, I 100% expected our "116 win season" banner to be up there. All it does is remind me that we literally had one of the best teams in all of baseball, and still didn't even _make the World Series_

[@cherokeeoutlaw2.011]

Such is baseball ⚾. Craziest sport around

[@captaiawesome2260]

I would of left that banner as an honorable mention, as setting an MLB record for the most wins in a regular season makes not that dumb of a banner. I say that’s quite the accomplishment.

[@CallMeMicahT]

116 games is really impressive.

[@briankilbane7043]

I remember the Indians playing that 01 squad and coming back from being down 14-2 in the SEVENTH

[@tomeknguyen9840]

The only MLB team that hasn't made to the World Series yet.

[@TheDeadPenguin2237]

I thought this was going to include the Edmonton Oilers putting up a banner where they won an online poll for “greatest team of all time”

[@TheSchmitt]

No way this actually happened. 😂

[@TheDeadPenguin2237]

@@TheSchmitt I shit you not m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6Dcn3WCqdqtn8k

[@iamzer0g]

For a while the Sharks put up “Western Conference Regular Season Champions” banners when they had the best record in the west going into the playoffs. It was definitely an eyesore once we actually won the West in 2016 and the team finally took them down a couple years back. I think the Predators did this too a few years back.

[@lemonator8813]

Sharks could probably raise a banner like "Best win% without a cup" and management would think it was a good idea...

[@waffles2waffles]

Predators are terrible, so it would make sense they would hoist a "We Had a Good Season" banner.

[@brandonbauer5012]

As a brewers fan, you missed them putting up a "2020 NL Wild Card" Banner behind home plate....it was an extended playoff field....They went 29-31...and got swept by the dodgers....

[@JDW1110]

My Blue Jays did the same. We were the 8 seed and were swept by the Rays. Got a banner at Rogers Centre for AL Wild Card Series

[@brandonbauer5012]

@@JDW1110 blue jays are my #2 and I'm sorry but unless you won your division a pennant or the wlrld series in 2020 you shouldn't raise a banner for it

[@JDW1110]

@@brandonbauer5012 Completly agree

[@jbj7599]

Brewers have 2 wild card banners then. Was embarrassed when they hung the first one, sure we finally made the playoffs but a banner?

[@dirtymike3329]

Lmfao

[@Ryan-sf8gb]

I was at Citi Field last month and saw the Mets had a “2016 Wild Card” banner. You know the wild card game they lost in heartbreaking fashion. I don’t understand that

[@nascarandrc8296]

2016 greatest season ever go cubs go

[@craigl4710]

the one where thor had a no-no for most of the game and then gillespie hit a 3-run bomb off familia... especially heartbreaking if you're a mets fan. go giants.

[@retsamcm]

They have a couple similar ones in Tmobile Park

[@robertkohl1167]

I'm a Mets fan and I hate that banner, I would take it down myself if I could get away with it, but a lot of teams hang Wild Card banners. I think even the Braves have 2010 and 2012 banners up in the outfield. Anyone who does it is tacky.

[@vinnyzan1]

I don't understand why any one would be a Mets fan with the yankees around. Maybe Im saying this, and it turn out to be their year.

[@Z64sports]

Having 1 banner with all the playoff years is cool but each one having their own is a bit too much imo

[@stephenmason9527]

I remember the first time I went to the University of Arkansas and saw their track. I swear they had banners all the way around a 400 meter circle 😄

[@ralphkotwica6184]

Sounds like a fan of a team that hasn’t won much lol

[@robertholston4708]

In 2017 the NHL celebrated its 100th anniversary. During the season there was a poll on the website for best team ever. The 1984 Edmonton Oilers won the poll. Edmonton raised a banner to commemorate the achievement.

[@christopherkopke7593]

I don't care what anyone says, nothing will ever beat the Detroit Lions and the most famous banner of all "Playoff Appearances"

[@michaeldavisnj88]

@Christopher Kopke Remember they also haven't won any playoff game since 1957.

[@FaithfulFumoFan23]

The Lions are so bad they don't even get clowned like other franchises in their tier. Imagine being so trash the only time you're even acknowledged is when you do make the playoffs once every 10-ish years. It's an expectation for them to be bad. When other teams are bad it's usually, "What's wrong with.." with the Lions it's "Yup, they're bad." And that's the end of the discussion.

[@FaithfulFumoFan23]

Nothing to cling to unlike other trash franchises like the Jaguars who have a Super Bowl appearance in their history and the Browns who at least sign players of note and have rosters that are in theory supposed to be competitive.

[@christopherjohnson1873]

As a Pats fan I support the 16-0 banner (I wish we kept it), and I would also support a 73-win banner for the Warriors. Both of those were accomplishments that absolutely are worthy of recognition/remembrance on their own. Further, I don't have a problem with division banners etc. either; especially for a team like the Braves who won the division a million years in a row. But a fortiori, if a division banner is acceptable, then it surely is also acceptable to hang a banner for one of the greatest seasons in the history of your sport.

[@Lance37a]

You went 16-0 but didn't win the championship putting a banner up is fraudulent.

[@hawawah8671]

I agree, I also think the near perfect banner is a bit humbling, which the Patriots probably still could benefit from. Six bowls in two decades, appearing in like ten of them. A sort of "memento mori" sort of reminder, don't let up because you can still lose. They could also get the same idea by hanging a 28-3 banner in their stadium.

[@cope847]

As a Pats hater, I don't see a problem with a perfect season banner. It's a very short list of teams that have done that. It's no different than when teams hang division title banners imo.

[@Sleepingfishie]

Support the record-setting regular season banner, even without a Ship, still a massive achievement that won't be easily done again.

[@mrmacross]

The Bulls handle this correctly, or at least handled it correctly. The Bulls hang division championship banners, which you could debate about if they're worth hanging, and added a "72" secondary banner below their 1996 division championship banner. All of their championship banners are consistent in layout with one another, so the then-record 72-win distinction is recognized separately from the NBA championships they won.

[@principalmcvicker6530]

_"... knowing Tropicana Field, those are probably load bearing banners."_ Lmao

[@dolfanchambers84]

UCF claimed a National Championship in 2017 because the Colley Matrix - an officially recognized NCAA National Champion Selector since 1992 - dubbed them National Champions. In the same way Alabama, Auburn, and other traditional schools have “claimed” National Championships to go along with consensus National Championships, UCF does too. Heck, if you want a more egregious example from the last decade, Auburn tried to sneakily claim 3 additional National Championships (1913, 1983, and 1993) shortly after losing the 2013 title game to FSU… only to walk it back by claiming they were just pointing out that the NCAA recognizes those teams as National Champions but NOT claiming them… but still keeps them up on the football team’s website under “Champions”.

[@GreenBayPayton]

I clicked immediately and expect the Predators to be here

[@vacay9128]

I was at the game they revealed it. Embarrassing.

[@FivePointsVids]

sorry man I missed that one

[@-linusthegoat-4825]

What did they do

[@andrewm.8228]

@@-linusthegoat-4825 They revealed a Western Conference Championship banner for the 2017-18 regular season when they won the Presidents trophy.

[@hawker7488]

@@andrewm.8228 And then got smoked in the second round by the Jets.

[@carsonyoung9965]

My favorite is Ole Miss that still has a sign for 2003 SEC West Champions, despite finishing second and not playing in the title game

[@coryshannon3815]

In terms of the CFP, I feel like the smaller conferences like the ones UCF and Cincinnati are in should do their best to try and get a team into the playoff, not because they can actually win it all (they most likely won't), but the money they'll get will help the conference out more. Even if you lose, that $50 Million or more to the conference for its team getting in the CFP will help each school build its program better.

[@OmegaTheGamer123]

As a Falcons fan, I'd hang a banner from the rafters of the stadium. "2016: YOU BLEW IT!!!!!"

[@otaviofrnazario]

I'd make one of the screens in the scoreboard run the Billy Madison meme nonstop

[@a_rocknrolladdict.0312]

A

[@buttrnugget6918]

In the Rogers center there is a banner that says 2020 wild card series the problem is they got swept by the rays in that series and for some reason it still hangs up there to remind everyone of that useless season

[@2XJG]

I remember seeing “1995 Wild Card Champions” for the Colorado Rockies back in the late 90s and thinking how desperate the team needed to be to affirm their club.

[@theMoerster]

At least that was a full series and not a single game eliminiation. Plus, they only started playing in 1993 so I'll give them a pass for putting up the first reasonable accomplishment they ever made.

[@jtbsax]

@@theMoerster There was no series. The division runner up with the best record got the wild card spot. The wild card started in '94 but there was a strike that year, so the Rockies were the first NL Wild Card team. Understandable they'd raise a banner. It was hard as hell to make the playoffs in baseball up until that point before the 3-division split and wild card. Simply making the playoffs was a huge accomplishment.

[@theMoerster]

@@jtbsax Crap...I was thinking they won the WC round. Forgot how recently the 2nd WC came into play. I stand corrected.

[@thelone0720]

My Rockies did that for real?

[@SteveJRogers]

Talk about attendance record banners? The Cleveland Guardians have baseball’s only triple digit retired number banner. 455 for a consecutive sellout streak at Jacobs Field during their heyday of the late 1990s. Could do whole episode on retired numbers for non uniform personnel, or non-number retirement honorees in a team’s retired number section (broadcast mics, old time logos for legends before numbers, names & even initials (KSM in Colorado for longtime Rockie executive Keli Scott McGregor upon his passing in 2010)

[@PittsburghMarky]

They don’t do it anymore, but when East Tennessee State University’s men’s basketball team played in their previous venue they had a banner commemorating the week in 1991 they were ranked tenth in the AP Poll.

[@lanabreeze]

This reminds me when the Tampa Bay Lightning hung two banners for individual game attendance records. One was for a regular season game and the other for a playoff game. Before Amalie Arena was built they use to play at Tropicana Field, a baseball stadium.

[@Zach-mw5so]

Sometimes I wish they’d play in Tropicana Field for hockey. They’d easily fill up the 27,000 seats or whatever for games.

[@Ianmccor]

The 2020 cancellation of the NCAA Tournament led to some weird banners as well. Winthrop hung a banner for saying that they earned an auto bid to a tournament that didn't happen in addition to the conference championship banner. South Carolina women's basketball also hung a banner for being the #1 ranked team in the country at the time the postseason was cancelled.

[@eastondebolt5569]

Florida state has one too

[@bens5661]

@@eastondebolt5569 theirs is worse, it's a banner for being one of the top 4 teams in the final poll.

[@pridelander06]

I can kinda see the South Carolina argument, like how early in college football national titles were based on final polls rather than CFP/BCS/etc.

[@conradcash1472]

I choose to recognize NCST as the 2019-2020 ACC Champion. They were set to play Duke and the Blue Devils pulled out, meaning NCST advanced. And at the time of the Tournament's cancelation, they had advanced past everyone else. Therefore I choose to call them the ACC Champion.

[@technole]

FSU's says NCAA Cancelled #4 final ranking. Personally just hanging ACC Tournament Champions would have been enough since they were awarded that trophy. So unfortunate.

[@jimfarmer6794]

The Expos had a banner for their first place “second half” finish when the season was split in 1981. The Reds had a banner that read, “1981 Best Record in Baseball” because they got robbed of a playoff spot from that same season.

[@SamtheBravesFan]

The Braves have extra pennants on the light tower for the years they made the playoffs via the wild card too. Carried that over from Turner Field.

[@traddthomas8645]

Can't wait for the 40/70 banner...

[@steverounds8574]

USC hung a banner for reaching the Elite-8 in 2021, while crosstown rival UCLA got to the Final Four. The Bruins only hang banners for National Championships, so they didn't even recognize their 2021 as banner worthy.

[@timoteoooo]

I’m very glad the 2019 Tampa Bay Lightning didn’t make an appearance in this video, I’d like to forget about them too

[@MrGUnit27]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Nashville Predators hanging 3 banners for their 2017-18 Presidents Trophy win. A moment so ridiculous that it became a meme

[@brandonfields613]

Falcons fan here, gotta say I can appreciate the loss after all these years. It kind of tells you something about life. Pride comes before the fall. Also you have to pick yourself back up. Also, a healthy dose of loyalty, to still believe in something that has let you down. That's all the lessons, besides that it still sucks haha.

[@teen_laqueefa]

28-3 is a real mentality toughening experience, I was the biggest Falcons fan that game, and by the end, I thought Matty Ice was a tard for not running the clock but he kept throwing

[@JoshuaZ.94]

I hope you see the falcons win a super bowl one of these years

[@waltercampbell9787]

As a packers fan I’m still not completely over our 2014 nfc championship game. Props to you for getting over a worse choke than ours

[@breighnerkoen]

Detroit lions should put one up that says “our former QB won a Super Bowl!”

[@studgerbil9081]

Cleveland retired the number 455 and hung it along with the other retired player numbers to honor the consecutive sell-out streak. Then they changed the name of the ballpark and then the name of the team, but that banner is still there.

[@mikewharton469]

I know they got taken down but for so many years the Lions had playoff banners hanging from Ford Field. Feel like they at least should have had a mention.

[@thenumberquelve158]

To be fair about the Colts banner, that WAS the Deflategate AFC Championship, so attempting to muster positivity about that season isn't the worst idea in the world. (I doubt they would have won with or without deflated footballs, given the brutal final score, but...)

[@JMTavares7]

The StL Cardinals have a ridiculous false Banner stating 2001 NL Central Champions. They tied the Astros at the end of the regular season but lost on tie-breaks and went into the playoffs as the wildcard. They even include this on in media materials that show photos of their banners in the background. Considering all the titles that team has it's very puzzling.

[@Sarkono13]

You should definitely have the Nashville Predators "Regular Season Western Conference Champions" banner and the Minnesota Wilds "Retired #1 fans" banner.

[@Kid-Pink_88.]

1:28 Ok there's no way i can ignore the incredible Daniel Jones impersonation by Five during the Benchwarmer Brew Ad. Even got a check down throw in there as he rolled 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Epic

[@c3920]

Colorado Avalanche retiring Ray Bourque's number even though he only played one season with the team.

[@CGrascal]

I remember UTree did a video about the Oilers and they hoisted a "100 Greatest Teams" banner in that video.

[@jcb5942]

I think the Colts 2014 AFC Finalist is a 'deflategate' joke.

[@riverwood6146]

POV: you actually make a banner that says blew a 28 - 3 lead

[@conman1495]

The best banner is UMBC celebrating their upset win over UVA with a first 16 seed to beat a 1 seed banner

[@krisgordon3116]

That's actually worth something though. The only time a 16 beat a 1.

[@conman1495]

@@krisgordon3116 true but it's a bit funny as well.

[@RushFanatic87]

I dunno, that was pretty badass lol

[@DanielOrteez]

@@krisgordon3116 Not only did they win, they blew them out! We knew one day a 16 was going to beat a 1 but not by 20 points.

[@krisgordon3116]

@@DanielOrteez righto!

[@91_C4_FL]

So glad UCF made number 1 on here.

[@ashkechum101]

Actually the ncaa recognizes the 2017 UCF as national champions so technically that banner is fine lol

[@MJCx777]

I applaud the UCF banner. They absolutely should have been included in the playoff. That banner is a middle finger to the dumb NCAA system

[@baronvg]

Agreed. Anything that shows disdain towards the NCAA is a win.

[@ADL21]

nah UCF just exposed the bias of the NCAA with their 2017 banner. They proved you can go undefeated, even win a bowl game, but be considered inferior to "1 loss Alabama"

[@MrAVGNdude]

The neighbors around Tropicana field definitely called the cops after that banner got hit. It sounds like a grenade going off lmaoo

[@JDW1110]

The Blue Jays actually have a 2020 AL Wild Card Series banner at Rogers Centre. Due to the Covid shortened 60-game season, It was an expanded wild card with 8 teams in the AL making it to play a best-of-3 series. The 8 seed Blue Jays lost 2-0 to the Rays. I don’t understand why that banner exists

[@waltercampbell9787]

Brewers were worse and did the same. Brewers went 29-31 and hung up a banner

[@big_dee33]

because they made the playoffs. where's the misunderstanding?

[@americanphilosophy2701]

7:15 this joke caught me off guard. Great analogy! Lol

[@joenobody571]

The pirates hanging 5 time world champions banners is an insult to the sport they have what one wild card win since 1992 the commissioner should fine them everyday till they take them down

[@honda_3335]

Disliking for not mentioning the Nashville Predators and their banners. For anyone who lives under a rock they won the presidents trophy (best regular season) and naturally put a banner up for it, but bizarrely included a “Regular season western conference champions” and “central division champions” which is not only redundant but very tacky.

[@MikeBrusca]

They took that 16-0 Banner down after they won SB49. Thank god. 😂😂😂

[@MP-dn4bs]

I got to hand it to college football. It's the sport that most approximates the real world. You know, where what your predecessors accomplished 40 years ago is an actual, and possibly one of the biggest factors in determining how much of a shot you get today.

[@baronvg]

I hope there’s a part 2 down the line. I have to believe there are way more dumb banners out there to laugh at.

[@Jame5man]

Nashville putting up a Regular Season Western Conference Champions banner?

[@hagggle3727]

Nashville predators have a banner for being the “regular season western conference champs” aka finished with the most points in the western conference but didn’t win the western conference win the playoffs

[@Jimmy-Mc]

Alabama has claimed several national titles where they lost their bowl game, and one with 2 regular season losses. UCF's title claim isn't nearly as bad as those.

[@Toxicity0069]

UCF claiming themselves as national champions just made them look like clowns. With the behavior of their fanbase, I'm amazed that the American Athletic Conference hasn't fined the school for intolerable fan behavior. UCF is an embarrassment to college football. There fans will spit on visiting fans and will flick off opposing players who get hurt during a game. The fanbase for UCF is way too toxic.

[@donrobles220]

@@Toxicity0069 you get no bitches bro

[@ryza6897]

1941 you're absolutely right, it's a trash claim. But the rest of them you have to remember back in the day they awarded the National Championship BEFORE bowl games. You're viewing those years through a modern lens when that's all the sport knew at the time. They're actually partly responsible for that change of awarding it after as they were awarded the title by UPI (who was widely recognized at the time same as the AP) before the bowl game and AP had already started awarding it after. Alabama lost to Notre Dame and AP gave it to ND so you had split champions and UPI as a direct result changed it after that game.

[@Jimmy-Mc]

@@ryza6897 there were multiple teams with better records, and rankings did exist back then and they weren't close to the top. 13-0 is a realistic claim at least

[@ryza6897]

@@Jimmy-Mc In 1941 absolutely. I agreed with that one. It's absolute bogus. They finished #20. The rest they were selected by a major selector as champions and had the record to go with it. They even got shafted in 1966 being the only undefeated and untied team in the country. ND and I think is was MSU played to a tie and they were named co-champions with Alabama being left out. The poll that named UCF champions in 2017 named Alabama champions in 2016, the year they lost to Clemson at the last second. Should Alabama claim that one, too?

[@nicksojka7457]

Honorable mention to the Nashville Predators for their "2017-18 Regular Season Western Conference Champions" banner

[@Rysofly]

That Cincy game with Bama was a lot closer then you think.

[@jasongerber6972]

The UCF national champion thing is awesome, it’s the ultimate troll

[@CoolHandLuke813]

It is funny if you view it as a troll. But there are plenty of delusional fans that actually believe it. They actually believe they’re the national champions. That’s what makes it stupid.

[@2drunk2drive]

@@CoolHandLuke813 Bro how many comments did you leave about this 😂😂 are you just some salty USF fan or something? UCF lives in your head rent free clearly

[@2drunk2drive]

It's crazy how stupid people are that they continue feed into it by getting so mad about it😂😂😂

[@CoolHandLuke813]

@@2drunk2drive And you’re following me around to every single one. Looks like I’m rent free in your head. 🤷‍♂️

[@NotThatTerrible]

very surprised the Predators hanging 3 banners that essentially said the same thing wasn't included

[@jshall14]

Back in the day the Bruins used to hang “Adams Division Champions” banners in the Boston Garden. It was a cheap ploy to compete with the Celtics and their actual championship banners.

[@techboy95]

5:55 I was eating when I was watching this while eating and immediately became nauseas at this point and couldn't swallow my food. Jesus that's one of the big moments in Atlanta where everyone remembers where they were when it happened.

[@MattBlack55]

Ole miss has 2003 SEC West Champions when they lost to LSU and LSU went to play in the SEC Championship game

[@AutoArtemAuto]

I honestly was expecting to see "Detroit Lions Made The Playoffs" banner on here.

[@melenzoferrer4786]

28-3 shall live on! I repeat, TWENTY-EIGHT TO FREAKING THREE!

[@Outta-hz1ej]

The Tampa Bay Lightning hung a banner up for their 2019 season where they won 62 games in the regular season, and ZERO in the playoffs

[@LeanMrfuzzles]

No, they hung a banner for the presidents trophy like literally every single team does. They don't have a banner that says 62 wins or anything like that.

[@valcaryon3]

It was a Presidents' Trophy banner. Don't be disingenuous.

[@Outta-hz1ej]

@@valcaryon3 "Winning" the regular season and getting swept is still an embarrassment.

[@LeanMrfuzzles]

@@Outta-hz1ej Then they went out and won 11 straight playoff series. Must've provided some sort of motivation or something.

[@valcaryon3]

@@Outta-hz1ej No one's saying it isn't. A president's trophy is still a common banner in the NHL, though, so it's not weird that the Bolts hung a banner despite the embarrassing loss.

[@RockSmithStudio]

UCF's "national championship" will always be hilarious

[@mrterp04]

Surprised that Tom Emanski’s never hung banners for his team’s back-to-back-to-back AAU National Championships.

[@badbirdkc]

One of the best Onion articles of all time was about how the Royals hired Tom Emanski as a coach to teach them how to play (circa 2005 when they were REALLY bad.)

[@dylanhall9470]

I'm a UCF alum, and I'm not saying we were national champions, but Winning 25 consecutive games... Would they have lost to Alabama? Probably, but Oklahoma gets destroyed by Alabama every time they play in the playoffs, so clearly the Big 12 isn't on the same level either. So UCF should have been given a chance in the playoffs. Those UCF teams were better than last year's Cincinnati team, just saying...

[@AlabamaBoy270]

UCF's claim isn't a bad one. The NCAA even recognizes the championship.

[@cl5619]

Detroit Lions are 1-12 in playoffs in 60+ years. Every time they make the playoffs and are one-and-done, the Lions add the playoff appearance date on their banner

[@alexknutson7286]

The Mariners have a banner that shows all three of their ALCS appearances (and losses)

[@chris2thejmedia]

2017 Superbowl will forever live in the back of my mind. Watched that game live the whole time as that lead was chipped away...28-3!!! Against the Pats! It's up there with the infamous "throw" by the seahawks against the same opponent. The Pats are just a curse to bird themed terms in my view

[@SCORPAIN88isme]

UCF finished 2017 #1 in the Colley Matrix, which the NCAA officially recognizes and used to declare national champions. Technically UCF were national champions in 2017.

[@warcraftlake7]

College football is only college where there is ni championship provided by the NCAA. Technically the trophy awarded isn't official. The official champion is declared by a group of polls. We have had NC awarded to 10-0-1 team whose tie was to a 10-0-1 team and the NC was 10-0-1 team and a 9-3 team. 1970 TOSU was really bad.

[@SCORPAIN88isme]

@@warcraftlake7 Yep! Lots of P5 schools have been doing the same thing for decades

[@Broadwaymungo]

@fivepointsvids I don't think the Patriots hanging a banner to commemorate an undefeated regular season is a bad look, insofar as they are the only other team in modern NFL history other than the '72 Dolphins to do that. They also won the AFC, obviously. Same thing with the Falcons. Absolutely hang an NFC Champions banner for the 28-3 game, but the sack record thing is absurd.

[@justinnzamora5366]

*reads the title of this video* I can't wait to hear FivePoints rip into the Nashville Predators. *finishes watching the video* How very surprising.

[@UAShortround]

There's four other NHL teams with that same type of banner.

[@benbroxterman336]

That auburn team beat both schools in the official national championship game. They were also playing lsu with a backup quarterback.

[@badbirdkc]

Back when Kansas City had an Arena Football team, the Brigade, the Chiefs Neil Smith was among the owners group. So when they played on Monday Night Football, they had a banner ceremony where the first year expansion team, which was actually the relocated New Orleans VooDoo after Katrina, officially "Retired" Smith's #90 jersey for the team. And then they got humiliated on national TV in one of the worst, sloppiest, penalty riddled AFL games I'd seen.

[@akgames5244]

Should’ve included the Predators hanging 3 random banners in a season where they lost in the 2nd round

[@nroadie]

Expected the Colts’ AFC finalist banner on this list

[@flightlessxlion2140]

Nashville predators hanging 3 banners for the same thing. I still find funny and was kinda expecting to be here. Part 2 maybe?

[@blueshky]

Rays fan here- the 2013 banner is hilarious and pathetic but the 2011 one? Just from the fact we were 8 games out in September, AND being down 8 runs in game 162 to the Yankees while Boston was winning, them them collapsing and losing to Baltimore and us coming back and winning in extras, yeah, that one is awesome. Lol.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

That entire night was awesome from my perspective as an Orioles fan. That kick-started our "almost" run from 2012-2016. It was an epic night for the AL East in general

[@blueshky]

@@MarloSoBalJr Robert Andino forever.

[@technole]

Banners should correspond to an actual award or trophy given. Winning a conference, tournament, or pennant kind of things. MLB wildcard is weird, and a bit of a stretch for an organization that doesn't have much to hang their hat on. More like trying to stretch accomplishments being the only one in AL East having not won a world series. Also declaring yourself a non-consensus national champion with only a peach bowl trophy is bad. It also did not help with recruiting, when you don't have a waffle cone in the trophy case to brag about.

[@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace]

On Opening Day 1905, the New York Giants raised a "World's Champion" banner (and wore uniforms that said "World Champions" across the front) even tho they refused to play in the World Series in 1904.

[@platinumdiamond7]

This may be a stupid question. But do you mean the New York Giants (NFL) or San Francisco Giants (MLB)?

[@LiveFromThePorcelainPalace]

@@platinumdiamond7 You're right. It's a stupid question. Hint: The NFL didn't exist before the 1920's

[@michaeldavisnj88]

@@platinumdiamond7 The NFL's Giants are officially called the New York Football Giants. The baseball Giants left NYC along with the Brooklyn Dodgers for California in 1958. The Dodgers are now based in Los Angeles.

[@danielb.burnham2382]

Thankfully they've smartened up and consolidated, but Providence College men's basketball used to hang a banner for each NCAA or NIT tournament appearance.

[@EthanRKassel]

Oh yeah, and the Taylor Swift “Most Sold Out Performances” banner at Staples.

[@eriknakamoto2647]

I was hoping this would be in the list! Us LA Kings fans blamed that banner for not making the playoffs until this past season!

[@calebhill90]

God the hunter biden diss 💀💀💀

[@obwls9495]

The Nashville Predators 2017-2018 (Regular Season) Western Conference Champions banner is the worst in all of sports!

[@Jayhawk92]

Oklahoma State did the same thing UCF did a long time ago. Only the national championship game wasn't played that year, and there were multiple undefeated teams

[@downtowndan9091]

The AFCA awarded the 1945 title to OKST retroactively so it is at least legitimate from one of the majorly recognized organizations (although we do overplay it’s significance). UCF’s only claim for 2017 is the Colley Matrix, which does not award trophies. OKST also won a natty in 2011 under the Colley Matrix but we don’t claim it because it’s not a legitimate title.

[@raptorspostgametalk]

As a Toronto fan it would be hilarious if the Leafs organization put up a banner for getting pass the first round if they don't get pass the 2nd round 🤣🤣

[@jamesrandall975]

Another dumb banner is inside Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington. A century before the Seattle Kraken of the NHL started playing at the arena, a team called the Seattle Metropolitans last played in the city 38 years before Climate Pledge opened. The team played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and won the Stanley Cup in 1917. (at the time, multiple leagues competed for the Stanley Cup.) The PCCA folded in 1924 and the Metropolitans went in the same direction. When the Kraken started playing in Climate Pledge, the team decided to hang a banner that celebrated the Metropolitans' Stanley Cup title when the latter NEVER EVEN PLAYED AT THE ARENA.

[@joemichigan4945]

When the 2020 basketball season got canceled FSU decided to hang up an AP Poll #4 banner

[@trained2live632]

I don’t know if anyone mentioned it but the Detroit Lions at one point hung banners for their playoff appearances. Each Banner had a different logo the lions used and the years they went to the playoffs when they used those logos.

[@dilusionalgoose5994]

“He disappeared like the pictures of our presidents son on Twitter”😭😂

[@mullamillamix]

We are going to gloss over the Nashville Predators “western conference regular season champions”?

[@amadorluis2008]

AFC Finalist banner is still hilarious

[@michaeldavisnj88]

That UCF coach Scott Frost since went back to his alma mater Nebraska but looks like even that may not work out for him. Their schedule is much easier than last season so he could not possibly afford another 3-9 season even if the losses are close.

[@CoasterKrazie]

Ozuna smacking that 2011 WC banner 😂

[@OwlGreene]

7:59 Hey....take it easy on my Terps. We haven't had a working "Fridge" in several years. I don't wanna hafta undo my "like". 🤣