ESPN Ranks Minnesota’s Sports Misery and it’s Pretty Bad, Except for This One Team

As a Minnesota sports fan, misery is our middle name. At this point, we never get our hopes up about anything. The Vikings could have the best season ever, we make it to the playoffs, and we'd all still say 'well, they're going to mess it up somehow'.

We're just so used to disappointment. However, there's one team of ours that does really well and doesn't cause us the sadness that the others do. We'll talk about them in a bit!

ALSO READ: Football and Bowling Collide at Minnesota's First Fowling Warehouse

ESPN Ranks MN Sports Teams Using the Sports Misery Index

ESPN has this hilarious tool called the Sports Misery Index. With it, you put in the teams you cheer for, and it'll tell you how much misery you suffer from on a scale of 0-100, 100 being the absolute most misery. The rankings are determined by the records of the last 15 years.

Get our free mobile app

As you can imagine, most of our Minnesota teams are pretty high on the rankings.

Where Minnesota Teams Rank on ESPN's Sports Misery Index

Let's start with the ranking they gave the Minnesota Vikings.

The Vikings got a score of 84/100 on the misery index, which is NOT good... However, there are teams that have it worse (isn't that the most Minnesotan thing to say?). The Vikings ranked as the 16th worst on the misery index.

Moving on the the Twins, they got a score of 88/100, even worse than the Vikings. They also ranked the 9th worst on the misery index out of all MLB teams.

The Wild also didn't do well, with a score of 83/100 and ranking as the 11th worst.

The Timberwolves got an 89/100, ranking as the 9th worst.

And Minnesota United FC, our men's soccer team, got a 61/100 and ranked as the 13th worst.

So, in order of most misery to least misery, we have the Timberwolves, Twins, Vikings, Wild, and United.

But there's one team we're missing, and that's the incredible Minnesota Lynx!

Our women's basketball team is so talented, and the Misery Index agrees, giving them a 0/100 on the misery scale.

If you're looking for a home team that's consistently really good to cheer for, check out a Lynx game!

Side note, the Minnesota Aurora FC, our women's soccer team, is too new to get a score yet.