loserville usa. as a lifelong hogs and falcons fan, that stings, mika. we ll talk all about it later. here in washington, we have former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. national affairs analyst, host and executive producer of showtime s the circus, and hell and high water podcast, john heilemann. and msnbc contributor, journalist, and author of the confidence code series, katty kay joins us. time to go to the big board, mika. let s go to steve kornacki. what a night. steve, talk about a crazy night. here ya go. this is what the result is. as you say, the republican, glenn youngkin, pulling out the victory in virginia. a year ago at this time, we were talking about how virginia had gone blue, had gone for joe biden by double digits, by ten points. now, the republican by two points over terry mcauliffe. how did youngkin do it?
mike lupica who is down in houston. mike, i m sure you remember back in the 1980s, the unkindest of cut but sports illustrated had a picture of atlanta fulton county stadium on it and the title was loserville usa. here we are 51 years later and in all of its major sports, atlanta has only one title and, last night, my brother and my son and we were all calling each other, thrilled that we were going to be able to double our championship output. not so fast. it turned out to be the greatest game of football ever played by the greatest football player of all time. but, joe, you know? sports, every hero requires a villain and so in atlanta today, they are looking at this as the greatest collapse of all time. i believe when you add it all up, because of the suspension for brady, because he missed the first four games, because his team ran the last 31 points of
seattle as the most miserable sports city, where championships go to die. they made 67 playoff experiences, managing only one title. the sonics fled seattle for oklahoma city a couple years ago. i was born in atlanta. that s second by the way. i followed in the 60s and 70s religiously the braves, the falcons, the hawks, the flames. they all lost. as bad as it is for seattle, they never had a picture of their stadium with a sports illustrated head line, loserville usa. but atlanta, god, they were horrible. they went to the playoffs for 14 years. i m talking about the 60s and 70s. they ve come around. mika s must-read opinion pages, next. but there s one that s so clever, it makes your skin look better even after you take it off.