Anyone else experience the roller-coaster ride of starting off Sunday morning with, perhaps, the greatest World Cup final we’ve ever seen and then ending it with what felt like the worst Chicago Blackhawks game of the season?
Or maybe just the worst day of the Blackhawks season — so far.
Anyway, for those unfamiliar with the story of Lionel Messi, the Cliffs Notes are that he’s been arguably the best soccer player in the world for the last decade-plus and won about every trophy that exists — except for the World Cup. And coming from a soccer-crazed nation like Argentina that had won it twice before, Messi’s career had felt sort of incomplete without one.