re: #100 HappyWarrior
Yeah. It’s the tough times that truly test your fandom. My Orioles are just getting off their worst season ever four years after playing for the pennant.
I was 12 the first year of the Patriots’ existence. I was 37 when they got demolished in their first Super Bowl. I was 48 when they lost their second Super Bowl. I was 53 when they won their first Super Bowl.
Red Sox? My parents lived and died without ever seeing them win a World Series (folks were both born in 1919; Sox went from 1918 to 2004 without winning one.) I was 56 before I saw them win one.
Think I qualify as a true fan?