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An Evening With Cub Fans In Scotland: The Craigs Of Rockford, Richard C. Crepeau
An Evening With Cub Fans In Scotland: The Craigs Of Rockford, Richard C. Crepeau
On Sport and Society
Cub fans are a unique species. Attachment to losing is taken to a level of religious fanaticism by the Cub faithful. Of course the charm of the Cubs is not simply that they lose, but that they are lovable losers. This is what inspires undying devotion in their fans. Indeed if the Cubs were to do the improbable, nay the impossible, and win a World Series I suspect Cub fans would lose the essence of their Cubness.