You think 2020 was bad?
You’re right, of course. It was pretty awful.
But then 2021 came around and — oh, by the way, you realize we’re just talking sports here, right?
Cubs fans rang in the new year with bags under their eyes from all the crying over the Yu Darvish trade and the stark realization that the good times are over. Notre Dame was manhandled again in a College Football Playoff semifinal on New Year’s Day, this time by Alabama. The Bears were manhandled by the dreaded Packers two days later in their regular-season finale, only to disgrace themselves further a week after that in New Orleans in a playoff game they had — let’s face it — no earthly business participating in.