Curious Hair wrote:
USA wrote:
Jordan retired from the Bulls thirteen years before Rose tore his knee up against Philadelphia. Next March it will have been thirteen years since Rose tore his knee up against Philadelphia.
Closer to 14, the injury was 2012. 2011 was the conference final. Still, though, where does the time go?
I guess one of the aspects of tanking as a strategy is that you can have these dark ages that last decades and it feels like nothing. You could say the same about the Sox and Bears since 2012 too. The 2018 Bears season will be less recent to the present day than the Packers’ NFC Championship loss was to the 2018. What’s happened in the meantime? Fat load of nothing. Sitting around watching quarterbacks fail to develop.
Everyone thought NBA/NFL/MLB Hell was being moderately competitive year after year. Good enough to make the playoffs but not good enough to win it all. Well OK that’s what 2000-2010 was in Chicago and it featured more excitement in any single year than we’ve had from the Sox, Bulls and Bears cumulatively 2012-present.
That 2018 Bears team has achieved mythical status in my recollection. Why? They got bounced immediately from the playoffs. Its because everything that surrounds it is shit.