Possible Clues:

• Hail diminished, but it's still bleak
• It is sombre to raise one's spirits on the foreign ship
• Always left during game if pessimistic
• Bleak
• Gridiron fans without their leaders!
• Invariably a number going into a game will appear gloomy
• Depressing game involving Stanley Gardner?
• Depressing advice to overenthusiastic supporters?
• Stare, beginning to end, in game that's miserable
• Dreary toast the French consumed