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If Bengals mortgaged a ring for 20 years of failure, they'd have roughly 3 rings instead of firmly 0. Most teams just do the failure part. Be happy your team won in recent memory
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joe football posted:If your team has never won a championship in your lifetime, winning a championship is really important After that I think I'd want consistent competence.
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wandler20 posted:You're nuts. The Bucs were poo poo for 20 years after they won their first SB and I wouldn't trade it away for that. I remember the Krafts saying that at one point after the Ravens won it all more recently and the Pats hadn't in a while (at the time). Basically, "Where are they now? they missed the playoffs X straight years." Now, when you have the GOAT, I think you can do that, because you aren't just making the playoffs; every year feels like it's possible to win a Super Bowl. I just doubt it works for anyone else because you need to suck to get draft picks to get playmakers on rookie contracts to build competitive teams.
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watching a pretty good team feels good and fun. it's not about an accomplishment. i know my team has not won it but i am just as big a fan of another team that has won the second most titles in their sport. the championship isn't my accomplishment so i would never look back 12 years ago and have a good time for a full season because of thinking of that time 12 years ago. it doesn't matter to me. it's the same as what norm said about gambling. why the attraction? most people would think it's the wins that keep the gambler going, but any gambler knows that this is not true. as you place your chips on the craps table, you feel anxiety and impatience. when the red dice hit the green felt with a thunk and you're declared the winner and the chips are pushed toward you, you feel relief. relief is all and relief is fine but hardly what a man would give the whole rest of his life to gain. it has to be something else. and the best i've come up with is this: it is a particular moment. a magic moment that occurs after the placing of a bet and before the result of that bet. it is after the red dice are thrown but before they lie still on the green felt where they fall. it is when the dice are in the air and as long as they are there, time stops. as long as the red dice are in the air, the gambler has hope. and hope is a wonderful thing to be addicted to. whopper whopper whopper whopper. if you feel different that's fine. not trying to say how it is for everybody Cavauro fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Tbh after the horrible chiefs bucs super bowl I was relieved to lose in the playoffs last year. Having a team to root for to make games interesting and watching close games that you usually win are the best seasons to me. If every game was a blowout that my team won, I’d stop watching every week. I sometimes have as much fun rooting against a team (bengals or bucs) or rooting for an underdog (jags last week) as I do watching my favorite team.
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Ort posted:Tbh after the horrible chiefs bucs super bowl I was relieved to lose in the playoffs last year. Having a team to root for to make games interesting and watching close games that you usually win are the best seasons to me. If every game was a blowout that my team won, I’d stop watching every week. I sometimes have as much fun rooting against a team (bengals or bucs) or rooting for an underdog (jags last week) as I do watching my favorite team. Kawalimus you're posting on the wrong account
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Who will or can ever stop these juggernaut bengala
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I like it when my team wins and competes for Superbowls. It's neato
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TheBizzness posted:What if they have won a championship but it was 50 years ago and you hadn’t been born yet You get disappointed year after year with the Blazers wasting Damian Lillard's prime.
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sweet thursday posted:Who will or can ever stop these juggernaut bengala ....And that's just Josh Allen, our backs and receivers fumble too!
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The Eagles were competitive more often than not for the better part of two decades before 2017, and while it always sucked to see them lose in the playoffs (or miss a trip to them entirely), it was still a fun team to watch, and you could count on them to be worth checking out every week. They hadn't won a championship since the middle of the 20th century, but they were good enough to make you think Maybe This Year, and that was nice. Wins were great, losses stung. Then 2017 happened, and it was the coolest loving thing on the planet, and suddenly the wins were somehow a little less great and the losses didn't sting at all. Only this past year have I really come back around to feeling anywhere close to those pre-2017 years, and even now there's nowhere near the same sense of "holy poo poo I hope to hell we somehow make this happen." It'd be awesome, without a doubt, and they've been super exciting to watch this year, obviously, but the desperation isn't there anymore and it has made the whole thing less of an emotional roller coaster.
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Toaster Beef posted:The Eagles were competitive more often than not for the better part of two decades before 2017, and while it always sucked to see them lose in the playoffs (or miss a trip to them entirely), it was still a fun team to watch, and you could count on them to be worth checking out every week. They hadn't won a championship since the middle of the 20th century, but they were good enough to make you think Maybe This Year, and that was nice. Wins were great, losses stung.
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2007 and 2011 replays have gotten me through a lot of lean seasons this last decade.
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Diva Cupcake posted:I think this is probably where I'm at. I've never even seen a Super Bowl appearance (0/4 in AFCCG) in my life so I'd be willing to go through literally what I've always gone through for a Super Bowl win. If they win a super bowl it's house money for the rest of my life.
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To me it goes away for a few years maybe, but as soon as you have a new crop of players it starts all over again. Because the Ravens may have won twice since I started watching, but the current set of key players have not. And we need to keep improving our overall record and playoff record which have faltered.
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Pain of Mind posted:Winning always feels so transient that I would prefer 10 solid playoff years in a row with no superbowls than 1 superbowl and then being in the basement for years. As a fan of a team who had a super bowl followed by 10 years of spectacular failure lmao no you wouldn't, championships rule davecrazy posted:2007 and 2011 replays have gotten me through a lot of lean seasons this last decade. I've fully accepted that I'll probably never experience a win as high as 2007 and I will treasure it for the rest of my life Febreeze fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Pain of Mind posted:Winning always feels so transient that I would prefer 10 solid playoff years in a row with no superbowls than 1 superbowl and then being in the basement for years. 2015 is worth the literal hell of the recent years
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Yah, GB has been doing the whole "just be consistently good but not get a ring" for the past 12 years and the fan base wants to riot. I'll take another ring and then 5 years of being poo poo, thank you very much.
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I have accepted that the Seahawks will never reach a Super Bowl again, but we got one at least, and that's helped me sleep through all the playoff losses since.
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Anti-Hero posted:Yah, GB has been doing the whole "just be consistently good but not get a ring" for the past 12 years and the fan base wants to riot. I'll take another ring and then 5 years of being poo poo, thank you very much. The Packers won a Super Bowl in recent memory
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Manoueverable posted:I have accepted that the Seahawks will never reach a Super Bowl again, but we got one at least, and that's helped me sleep through all the playoff losses since. At least we didn't have to worry about watching a playoff loss last year 
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I started getting antsy again in about year 8 of the Ravens decade of spectacular failure
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I mean, I was like 8 when this game was played and it still gets me fired up. Jerry Rice untouched fumbling away a sure TD. The fake punt LT picking off Montana for the pick 6 as Montana got removed from reality. All the 2 back formations...two backs everywhere... Harry Carson Gatorade bath Parcells AND Belichick Madden...Summerall This stuff is like crack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z-niWc7yUM davecrazy fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Anti-Hero posted:Yah, GB has been doing the whole "just be consistently good but not get a ring" for the past 12 years and the fan base wants to riot. I'll take another ring and then 5 years of being poo poo, thank you very much. They’ve at still consistently had a chance and gave you fun seasons where you could be invested the whole time. The alternative is probably “going all in”, still not winning the SB and then a few seasons of actual misery
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I have watched all 5 Niners SB victories. Embarrassing John Elway and Dan Marino were my favorite ones.
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davecrazy posted:2007 and 2011 replays have gotten me through a lot of lean seasons this last decade. I subsist on 2015 and for some reason 2013 is a blackhole in my memory. I have no idea what happened then. It's hard to say.
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Russell Gage has a neck injury, but at least is able to move his arms and legs. Hope that garbage time TD was worth it, Tom!
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I turned 18 the year the Pats won their first SB so I've certainly got enough memories to coast on forever even if they are poo poo for the rest of my life (which they probably will be lol). rip my kids though. They were both alive for 28-3 and the Rams SB but not old enough to remember them. "Technically lived through 2 Brady super bowl wins" will have to be enough for the next generation.
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Nervous posted:You get disappointed year after year with the Blazers wasting
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CharlestheHammer posted:The Packers won a Super Bowl in recent memory Correct, and people all over reddit (I know, I know) gripe about how terrible the team is for not winning more. Even though we got one in recent memory and we've only missed the playoffs twice (?) since then. Personally I'd be fine with going all in and turning in to a pumpkin like the Eagles after '17, (and the '21 Rams) but I can see why the Front Office chooses to do business the way they do.
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mcmagic posted:If they win a super bowl it's house money for the rest of my life. You know we see your probes about the Yankees right?
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As a Chris Paul fan who will likely never see him win a title, all those downplaying the importance of the title are making me Sports Mad. I know it's a basketball thing but no, consistently good to very good isn't a replacement for seeing a team or player you love win it all. The Harden Choke and the Milwaukee Series have pretty much broken me at this point. 
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AndrewP posted:They’ve at still consistently had a chance and gave you fun seasons where you could be invested the whole time. They’ve had a first round bye 5 times since their last Superbowl and have made the Superbowl zero times since then. That includes blowing two NFC championships that should have been in the bag and two NFC championships where they got blown out. They’re like the Oklahoma of the NFL, cruising through the regular season in a bad division only to get bounced in embarrassing fashion from the playoffs. It’s better than being consistently terrible but constantly getting hyped up and then coming up short would also be frustrating.
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Febreeze posted:
This is how I feel about the seahawks broncos superbowl. I was 25 living in the city with a bunch of my best friends wrapping up college. Responsible for just myself and my dog. Watching an all time rear end whooping where it was just a celebration from literally the first snap. Bussed downtown to celebrate after, was one of those people waiting for lights to change before crossing, and partying all night. A top 5 day in my life after wedding and children being born. I doubt I will see the like of it again. Tears in the rain etc.
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Anti-Hero posted:Personally I'd be fine with going all in and turning in to a pumpkin like the Eagles after '17 Packer fans are so spoiled they think making the playoffs four out of five years is turning into a pumpkin.
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I think different mentalities are required to enjoy sports depending upon whether your team is usually successful and sometimes or often wins titles, has up and down seasons but is sometimes a contender or is usually bad to mediocre. It’s obviously pretty easy to be a fan of the Patriots or Alabama or the Warriors having a run of titles. The trick is deriving enjoyment as a fan of the Bears or Commanders or Lions. You have to be able to enjoy individual wins or great players that come through or memorable plays.
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SamuraiFoochs posted:As a Chris Paul fan who will likely never see him win a title, all those downplaying the importance of the title are making me Sports Mad. I know it's a basketball thing but no, consistently good to very good isn't a replacement for seeing a team or player you love win it all. The Harden Choke and the Milwaukee Series have pretty much broken me at this point. hope you figure it out and stop having sports ruin your life consistently. maybe a chris paul title would actually make you realize something 2 or 3 years later. that's not something happening to you; it's you. it's a horrible disaster to pretty much be at a place where nothing short of a championship actively does harm to you. that's all. just feels very  about the whole thing
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Cavauro posted:it's a horrible disaster to pretty much be at a place where nothing short of a championship actively does harm to you. that's all. just feels very Yeah, pinning every last bit of enjoyment you might get out of a football season on the chances of your team doing something that 31 out of 32 teams won't do just sounds miserable.
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lmao at thinking playoffs every couple years for 5 years is the dark period. Jets haven't made the playoffs in 12 years or hosted a playoff game in 20. Dolphins and Raiders haven't won a playoff game in 20/21 years. Lions haven't won a playoff game in 31 years. It can always get bleaker and more desperate.
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Cavauro posted:hope you figure it out and stop having sports ruin your life consistently. maybe a chris paul title would actually make you realize something 2 or 3 years later. that's not something happening to you; it's you. Anyone want to see a dead body
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