Here’s one of sports journalism’s dirty little secrets: Losing locker rooms are often more compelling.
If you’re working a big game with a choice of covering the winners or losers, you’re liable to get more interesting storytelling, more raw and vivid emotion, on the losing side.
Oh, everything is sunshine and flowers across the hall, where the winners are hugging, laughing and celebrating their dreams coming true. That’s fun to be around. The world is perfect in there. Yay!
But life isn’t like that. It’s a long trail of ups and downs. The losers are learning the hard way.