LeBron James is the antidote to the continuing awfulness of Boston sports fans | Golf News and Tour Information [Video]

I want to talk about Boston sports fans, but first, here’s a crazy stat about lottery winners, pulled from ThinkProgress:

“Those who win may not be much better off, however. The National Endowment for Financial Education estimates that as much as 70 percent of those who land sudden windfalls lose the money within several years. Lottery winnings have led some to drugs, bankruptcy, and family fractures.”

It turns out that becoming very rich overnight, without any experience, can be really bad for someone from modest circumstances, since they have no idea how to manage that much money and tend to go hog wild until it’s all gone.

This is how I, a native New Yorker, feel about the sports fans of Boston. They spent decades developing their identity as a group of loyal losers, even going so far as to claim they were cursed (this despite having the most successful NBA …