Futility breeds discontent.
Nothing is truer in sports or in a marriage. In sports, no matter how successful your team was in the past or how many championships the franchise has won, if you have several bad seasons in a row, anyone in the organization can be shown the door. And if your wife comes home and the power is off, the hero you were earlier has minimal merit today.
Which brings us to the “Cleveland Sports Curse.”
The City of Cleveland has been known for futility with its sports teams for many decades. Anybody who followed sports became well-educated about when the last time a team from Cleveland had won any title.