about futile Cubs teams that hadn’t won a National League pennant in more than seven decades or a World Series in nearly 11 decades.

Yet, next to the Yankees, the Cubs were the America’s Team of baseball minus a few dozen championships.

So, what if the Cubs actually do win this season’s World Series … and then another soon after … then another sometime …?

Cubs players will be coming into your family room on TV and selling you everything from soft drinks to underwear to luxury automobiles.

The Cubs supposedly are primed for sustained success that could extend into the middle of the 2020s.

For that to be the forecast, the Cubs must have a youthful core expected to stay in place for a while.

Fans already have gotten to know Cubs players and will get to know them even better, the way Bears fans knew Refrigerator Perry and Jim McMahon and Bulls fans knew Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.

Print and TV media will tell everyone everything they possibly could want to know about Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo.

Cubs fans will find out what the Kyles — Hendricks and Schwarber — eat for breakfast; where Javier Baez and Willson Contreras expend their boundless energy after leaving work; whether Joe Maddon can fix everything at home like he does at the ballpark.

Those questions will be answered not only locally but nationally and maybe even internationally.

Older Cubs fans scattered around America and the world will be joined by new ones here, there and everywhere.

Together they will elevate the Cubs to the same level as the ’80s Bears and the ’90s Bulls … and then above them.

When that Bears circus and those Bulls rock stars arrived in another town, fans waited for them at the team hotel, greeted the team bus and hoped for autographs or perhaps just a glimpse.

Ah, but that’s getting ahead of ourselves, isn’t it?

The Cubs still have to win a World Series to reach the widespread notoriety of those Bears and Bulls teams.

But it is interesting to ponder who the juggler in the Cubs’ circus would be and who the drummer in their rock band would be.

mimrem@dailyherald.com