As John Oliver pointed out in the season finale of Last Week Tonight, 2016 has been a particularly bad year. It certainly has been from a Cincinnati Bearcat perspective. It started with the brutal two-game stretch that ended the men’s basketball season last spring and continued with the dismal and offensively-inept football team this fall.
Even before the football team sputtered, 2016 (and the fall of 2015) had already featured a number of excruciating setbacks and disappointments.
But even with all the storm clouds, there has been plenty to be thankful for as a Bearcats fan.