If you’re a Chicago sports fan under the age of 30, you’ve been conditioned to expect to lose. Especially when you’re down big. You joke about it in school or at work. Your family’s so cynical about sports that your cynicism transcends sports and impacts other parts of your life.
So you’re in your apartment the night before the Christmas Eve. You can’t see your family this year. You turn on BTN and have you’re forced to watch the end of an OSU-Rutgers game that had been over for 20 minutes. And when they finally switch it over to Illinois-Penn State, the Illini are down 19-4.