{"product_id":"roseanne-abc-tv-1988-97-lanford-gazette-cubs-win-2010-is-our-year-newspaper","title":"Roseanne (ABC TV, 1988-97) Lanford Gazette 'Cubs Win! 2010 Is Our Year' Newspaper","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpoiler: 2010 was not their year. Neither was 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, or 2015.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is an \u003cstrong\u003eoriginal production-made Lanford Gazette prop newspaper\u003c\/strong\u003e from \u003cem\u003eRoseanne\u003c\/em\u003e (ABC, 1988–97), custom printed for the production by The Earl Hays Press. Made in 1994, this newspaper features a joke future-dated headline from the year 2010 - sixteen years away at the time - reading \u003cstrong\u003e\"Cubs Win! 2010 Is Our Year,\"\u003c\/strong\u003e a wry nod to the Chicago Cubs' legendary, seemingly endless championship drought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf course, 2010 came and went without a Cubs title. So did every other year until \u003cstrong\u003e2016\u003c\/strong\u003e, when the Cubs finally ended their \u003cstrong\u003e108-year World Series drought\u003c\/strong\u003e - the longest in the history of American professional sports. The last time they had won before that was \u003cstrong\u003e1908\u003c\/strong\u003e. The prop newspaper's joke aged for 22 years before the punchline finally landed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a reproduction. This is a genuine production-made prop, pulled directly from the Earl Hays Press archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAs seen in:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eRoseanne\u003c\/em\u003e (ABC, 1988–97) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly one available. When it sells, it's gone.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDisplay it. Frame it. One of the most unintentionally prophetic prop newspapers in television history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes our EHP Certificate of Authenticity and is guaranteed for life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDid you know?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eRoseanne\u003c\/em\u003e ran for nine seasons on ABC from 1988 to 1997, set in the fictional working-class town of Lanford, Illinois, somewhere in the Chicago area. The show was one of the highest-rated series of its era, regularly drawing over 20 million viewers, and is widely regarded as one of the most authentic portrayals of working-class American family life in television history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack to the Future Part II (1989) also predicted a Cubs win in the 2010s. They only missed it by one year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Earl Hays Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52544672825525,"sku":null,"price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1010\/2787\/2949\/files\/RoseannePropNP.jpg?v=1779380787","url":"https:\/\/ehprops.com\/products\/roseanne-abc-tv-1988-97-lanford-gazette-cubs-win-2010-is-our-year-newspaper","provider":"The Earl Hays Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}