What happens when your team keeps losing?

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Collectively, 2024 was the worst year for Chicago sports teams. Chicago fans are used to remaining faithful to some loveable losers. But the younger generation of sports fans aren’t as forgiving.

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0:31.4	It's Curious City, where we take your questions about Chicago and the region, and investigate.
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0:38.1	Explore.
0:38.9	From WBEZ.
0:43.3	What's up, Chicago?
0:44.5	I'm Erin Allen.
0:45.9	If you're a Chicago sports fan, I know you got your heartbroken one too many times last year.
0:51.7	2024 was, in fact, the overall worst Chicago sports year in the city's history.
0:58.7	Today, Katie O'Brien takes a look at what it means to be the losers year after year.
1:10.1	We Chicago sports fans have taken our fair share of beatings over the years and still manage to cling to some irrational optimism.
1:17.4	It's fine. We'll rebuild. Just need to make some changes to the offense and hire a new coach. We'll be back. It's fine. Well, it ain't fine for anybody.
1:30.3	Chicago's Big five franchises, the Bears, Blackhawks, Bulls, White Sox, and Cubs lost roughly two-thirds of the games they played last year.
1:37.3	So as the 2024 seasons were coming to a close, curious citizen Carson Poole started to wonder.
1:43.3	Has it ever been this bad across the board for Chicago sports teams?
1:49.0	Well, Carson, there's a very short answer to your question.
1:53.0	No.
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