Champion Chicago
Over the past couple of months, I have been looking at what Chicago sport fans say about their players, teams, and management through different avenues such as articles, social media, and other places on the internet. What it tells me is that there is a vocal subsection that is invested in ways that seem unbelievable. I try to give these "passionate" fans the benefit of the doubt. They are embroiled in the twists and turns that come with being a sports fan, but then I see the sense of community that sport promotes not feeding into the goodwill of people. It is feeding into the panic and despair that feeds into paranoia and negativity. There was the incident from 2003 with Steve Bartman that should have called for a reflection of sports fans everywhere and not just Chicago Cubs fans. A realization that there is more to the sport than people playing for entertainment and escape from the unnerving reality outside the stadium. The fact that it took a championship that was never