Dan Steinberg wrote about the Redskins' loss to the Buccaneers last weekend in this piece for the Washington Post. Undoubtedly it applies to plenty of places - Bottom Eight college teams, perennial fifty-loss NBA teams, even the opponent of DC that particular day, Tampa Bay.
Meanwhile, halfway across the country, Chicago fans exhibit the same resentment and disenchantment over their seemingly hopeless situation in this piece for MMQB by SI's Robert Klemko. The tie-in for losing NFL teams, most of the time, is frustration with a quarterbacking situation, for one reason or another. The Redskins paid dearly to get the rights Robert Griffin III; the Bears thought they had their franchise quarterback for the next decade in Jay Cutler. Both players are now targets of the overflowing hostilities of the hometown patrons, tired of watching their mistake-prone team lose consistently to the star QBs they see on TV every week - Manning, Brady, Rodgers, Brees, Wilson, Luck, Stafford, Roethlisberger,...
The truth remains: if someone always wins, year after year, somewhere there's most likely another team that always loses. Year after year...after year.
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