Narrative changes for Cubs fans and their Series champions
CHICAGO — They spoke of heartbreak and black cats and goats. And finally, Chicago Cubs fans spoke with pride about winning it all.
This is new territory for these long-suffering fans and it showed on Thursday, the day after the Cubs wrapped up their first World Series championship since 1908 with a Game 7, extra-inning thriller in Cleveland against the Indians. Amid all the celebrating and relief and joy ahead of Friday’s big downtown parade, there was a bit of confusion on just how to proceed.
After all, 108 years of falling short is a long time.
“That just dawned on me yesterday that Chicago’s not going to have that reputation anymore of lovable losers,” said Peggy Herrington, 49, of Chicago. “We’re not going to fall back on that and think about the goats or anything.”