Sports can be cruel, and investing emotionally in the performance of any team is going to bite you at some point. There are just not many good endings.
But, like when you finally hit a sweet golf shot amid a full morning of hacking the ball around, it makes everything worthwhile and you invest emotionally all over again.
My condolences to those of our readers who live and die with the Cincinnati Bengals and the San Francisco 49ers, who each saw their team’s season end on Sunday, but in quite different ways.
For Ohio State fans who back the 49ers, the game seemed over before it began.