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(05-09-2019, 12:14 AM)lone bengal Wrote: I personally love the Bengals being underdogs this season and always being underdogs in general. I'm 30 years old and live in New England and I've never seen my team win a single playoff game,while my friends take winning six superbowls for granted.  I think that's what the silver lining of being a Bengals fan for me is, that one day all the pain and suffering the team has put us through will be worth it one day when they win the superbowl and shock the world as the ultimate underdog. Imagine being a Cubs fan and winning the world series for the first time in over 100 years the feeling must have been incredible. I think embracing the underdog as a team and fan base can be a good thing. I loved the Philadelphia Eagles the year they won the superbowl and when the Giants knocked of the undefeated Patriots. Embrace the underdog !

The thing with the Cubs is before winning the WS they went out and got both the top GM and the top manager in baseball and then broke the bank bringing in high-priced talent to bolster years of in-house development.

The Cubs weren't the underdogs when they won, they were more akin the the Browns this year because people were convinced that no amount of GM/manager/talent could turn that cursed franchise around.  I was standing in the upper deck at Wrigley in the winter of 2011 telling prospective season ticket buyers that there was a good chance Theo was going to do what it takes to up the value of any tickets they buy and that it was a reasonable investment.  Hey, I was right for a change! 

The underdogs of baseball are the Pittsburgh Pirates.  Lordy, they're the underdoggiest team there is and they ain't so popular and they don't do much winning.