The Deuce: The toxicity of those fanbases manifests itself in rabid home crowds too though.

That’s the weird part of where we seem to be at now. We’re not even getting the positive byproduct of that craziness, we’re just a bunch of miserable fucks who are waiting for a reason to complain.

I will say that being 0-2 in home games against Big Ten teams with a pulse this season doesn’t help with any of this though.

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and we’re WAY more sane than, say, Kentucky’s or IU’s to name 2

Every school’s online base is nuts

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I know roughy has written about this but there's a lot of Chicago area pro-sports types that are mad/frustrated because they also follow pro teams that mostly disappoint. And I think we also have a lot of townies that might love the teams but maybe not the UI as a whole? Other stuff going on like the older pro-Chief types, etc.

And of course we're all so "thirsty" because we've come close to the pinnacle at times only to tumble back down soon after.

And the irony of course is we're probably in the best position we've ever been in but it's hard to overcome all that.