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Bears quarterback Rex Grossman

Inside a Chicago Fan's Super Bowl Scuffle

[7 March 2007]

by Chris Catania

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Chicago sports fans suffer from a chronic self-induced nostalgic obsession, passed down from generation-to-generation, which destroys any chance for realistic expectations.

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Wow, I will never, ever understand why people consider sports moments to be “life moments” for them, or why a non-player would ever be in a “depressing gridlock” over a game. The mystical devotion to sports is something I find really confounding and, to be honest, pathetic.

Comment by Tommy Atkins — March 7, 2007 @ 3:43 pm

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