Here’s how you know we live in the universe designed only to give us pain:
Cockeye QB falls in the end zone and flips the ball desperately towards his RB and gets a positive play instead of a safety. In any other universe that’s a safety or a touchdown and we win.
Meanwhile, a clock operator forgets to run clock. For a brief period of time, it looks like that mistake will amazingly help Nebraska. Instead we turn the ball over, and the opponent uses those extra seconds to send out a backup field goal kicker to make his first of the season.
At some point, this shit is no longer luck. We watch teams make inexplicable plays every week. We watch them seemingly recover every one of their fumbles - and ours. We watch them win reviews when the announcers say there is no way they will.
The program is constitutionally unable to find itself on the right side of a break. It is just soul crushing.