Among the things Clevelanders have to feel miserable about these days, sports shouldn’t be high on the list. The Cavs, Indians, and Browns have finally blessed us with a trifecta of non-suckitude. And with banks collapsing, the county commissioners giving away billions of dollars, and our economy playing like the Kansas City Royals, you might say we have more important stuff to worry about.
Still. Over the last 25 years, no city’s sports fans have suffered the way Cleveland’s have. That’s why C-Notes nearly threw itself off the Prog’s Party Deck when it read Forbes’ list of “America’s 10 Most Miserable Sports Cities.” It seems the business magazine’s resident pointy-heads consider our suffering only the eighth most excruciating the country. Eighth!
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2008.