Cheering for a bad team isn’t easy. Most of the time, it’s actually pretty difficult. Twenty minutes into the Sens’ 2021 season opener, it really did look like this was going to be a rough night. Being a bad team is embarrassing enough, but losing to the Leafs? Come on. Even we have standards.
But here’s the one really, really nice thing about cheering for a team that is abjectly terrible: whenever someone loses to you, it is extremely funny. Like, losing to the 2017 Ottawa Senators? Understandable. You still have some dignity left. But losing to the 2021 Ottawa Senators?