Sports futility

Hard to believe, but the prime story in Google News about game shows right now concerns the Detroit Lions.

You may not be much of a football fan (like me) but you may still have heard about the Lions' record of futility when it comes to Super Bowl appearances. Well, actually there haven't been any Super Bowl appearances for the poor Detroiters. Jeopardy couldn't resist rubbing it in...

As of 2018, this NFC North team had never even made the Super Bowl, much less won it. But by 2030? Gotta happen, right?

To make the team's humiliation even worse, the pictured contestant immediately nailed the Lions as the not-so-successful team. Okay, all sports franchises have their ups and downs. My hometown baseball team, the Texas Rangers, have never won the World Series, though they did get to the Fall Classic a couple times. (One appearance was an excruciatingly close loss to the Cardinals in 2011.)

Sports are trivial, anyway, though lots of money changes hands in the business. And sometimes quiz shows just have to rub it in when a team has endured a bad five or six (or more) decades. Who knows, by 2030 everything may be different, no?