Being a fan of a sports team, in any sport, puts you in difficult situations sometimes. It makes you always want victory, no matter what and no matter who it’s against. It makes wanting what’s best for the team in the long run really tough when it means sacrificing the short term.
Especially when that best thing is losing. But that’s where the Philadelphia Eagles are now.
All the optimism Eagles fans had in August is gone, replaced with equal levels of frustration and disbelief. No one saw this coming, not even that one know-it-all friend everyone has.