Hail the Underdogs

I’ve always had a place in my heart for the downtrodden. I attended Northwestern University back when the football team was so awful that defeating equally cruddy Illinois was cause for tearing down the goalposts and for the campus radio to play Tom Petty’s “Even the Losers.”

I’m also a fan of the Cubs baseball and Tottenham soccer clubs—organizations with well-worn records in futility. But rejoicing when your lovable losers finally succeed is