It is not fun to watch Northwestern football right now. It is not that the Wildcats are struggling at 1-6; even Northwestern fans who have come on in this opulent golden age of winning seasons and bowl berths and quarterbacks somehow getting drafted into the National Football League, the program's historical ineptitude remains baked into the program. In every generation, every Northwestern fan is obligated to see herself as if she had thrown the goalposts into the lake after the 29th consecutive defeat.
sucking at football
OK I'm not done with this, there's a line where they finally beat Northern Illinois after losing 34 consecutive games and they take the goal posts to the university president's house where, as Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tom Philp describes, he came out on a balcony "almost like a dictator, like Mussolini, and he said 'can you cats growl'" and then they all growled exactly like this:
many years that there are actual short documentaries about this
Northwestern's season is not depressing only because of the losing but because of the way it is happening.