Why do we keep doing this to ourselves every single season — showing up, caring, getting our hopes up in August only to watch it fall apart by October, and then doing the exact same thing again next year without hesitation? There's something genuinely irrational about sports loyalty that has nothing to do with logic and everything to do with identity. Come be miserable together — what's the loss that still stings the most, years later?
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The suffering is the community, that's the point
Every single season. I don't know why either.