10 most miserable NFL fanbases

We are in the midst of June, which is great because every NFL team and their fans think they have a shot at the brass ring. In June, almost no injury is too disruptive, no new signing is really bad, no retiring player is the end of the world.

Everyone has a shot.

Which for some fans, is about as good as they will feel all year. They’ll watch as their team practices hard all summer, only to fall apart once things get real come September.

They root for teams perpetually in reboot-mode, teams which are too good to scrap it all and rebuild but also too bad to really contend. They root for teams which have been hoping for a playoff spot, much less a Super Bowl appearance, for decades but never see it happen.

In some cases, they cheer for teams which might not be there to cheer for much longer.

Despite all this, these fans will hang in there. They’ll keep cheering for their teams come hell or high water – even if, in some cases, their teams have moved.

That doesn’t mean that, come Week 8 or so, the NFL season hasn’t become a miserable slog for them, especially if their team has had an especially bad first half and isn’t in the race any longer. They hang in there, because that’s what you do as a fan. You don’t switch teams, you don’t give up on the sport and you don’t burn your coach in effigy.

You hang in there, even if you’re completely miserable.

Next: San Diego Chargers