They write books about sports curses in other cities, Chicago with the billy goat and Boston with the Bambino. Cincinnati doesn’t have literature to assuage its pain.
It does have this tweet, however, from sports talk show host Mo Egger:
How many more kicks to the balls do we have to take?
— Mo Egger (@MoEgger1530) March 19, 2016
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That about covers it. As we learned again Friday night in the NCAA Tournament with the Cincinnati Bearcats’ excruciating 78-76 loss to Saint Joseph's, the Queen City is not just cursed in a single, romanticized sport.