When your sports team sucks

[Sherlock77]

First game of the CFL playoffs (football), we barely got into the playoffs to begin with and we are being slaughtered... We suck!

Alright, the entire season has been spotty, with only six wins, after years of great teams, and it seemed to come out of nowhere... Our quarterback who was supposed to be a good player (coming into the season) just didn't deliver all season when other teams had much better quarterbacks

I feel like my sense of civic pride has taken a huge hit all season anyway... I'm just embarrassed

 

[Cryptid]

“We”?

Are you on the team?

 

[Sherlock77]

“We”?

Are you on the team?

I feel like it sometimes, for me it's part of my civic pride, and there wasn't much of that this year, heck sports teams here haven't done much in any recent years for that matter...

And it feels like a metaphor for my life, I've never been all that successful at anything I've done, certainly in terms of accomplishments...

 

[Cryptid]

It may be better to not base any sense of self-worth on the performance of a sports team or player. Otherwise, it puts control of your moods into someone else's hands.

 

[Mary Terry]

First game of the CFL playoffs (football), we barely got into the playoffs to begin with and we are being slaughtered... We suck!

Alright, the entire season has been spotty, with only six wins, after years of great teams, and it seemed to come out of nowhere... Our quarterback who was supposed to be a good player (coming into the season) just didn't deliver all season when other teams had much better quarterbacks

I feel like my sense of civic pride has taken a huge hit all season anyway... I'm just embarrassed

I understand the sense of embarrassment. When I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s, the Saints football team was so bad that fans wore brown paper bags over their heads at games to conceal their identity. It was a joke and also a rebuke to the Saints about their poor performance. The team is better now but, like all sports teams, they vary from year to year so devoted fans just have to suffer through the bad years.

 

[tazz]

I support Boston Red Sox so I don't experience this problem...

 

[Sherlock77]

It may be better to not base any sense of self-worth on the performance of a sports team or player. Otherwise, it puts control of your moods into someone else's hands.

I do agree, just a moment of disappointment last night... There is more to a city than just sports, perhaps...

 

[Sherlock77]

I understand the sense of embarrassment. When I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s, the Saints football team was so bad that fans wore brown paper bags over their heads at games to conceal their identity. It was a joke and also a rebuke to the Saints about their poor performance. The team is better now but, like all sports teams, they vary from year to year so devoted fans just have to suffer through the bad years.

I listened to the call in show after the game, a lot of rather unhappy fans with many aspects of the team this year...

 

[Judge]

I'll trade you. You can have the Las Vegas Raiders. Presently at five losses and three wins.

And they just sacked the head coach and general manager.

But WE get to keep the stadium they play in.

 

[Judge]

I understand the sense of embarrassment. When I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s, the Saints football team was so bad that fans wore brown paper bags over their heads at games to conceal their identity. It was a joke and also a rebuke to the Saints about their poor performance. The team is better now but, like all sports teams, they vary from year to year so devoted fans just have to suffer through the bad years.

Seems a mistake that the Raiders dumped Derek Carr who seems to be holding his own with the Saints.

 

[Forest Cat]

It may be better to not base any sense of self-worth on the performance of a sports team or player. Otherwise, it puts control of your moods into someone else's hands.

It's important to cheer for the local team. When it's Winter Olympics time, I cheer my team on and sing patriotic songs of victory. They represent my country so I think it's good to support them. And it's always fun to watch them kick the worlds butt.

 

[Forest Cat]

When I lived in New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1980s, the Saints football team was so bad that fans wore brown paper bags over their heads at games to conceal their identity.

lol wow! So funny.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

It's important to cheer for the local team. When it's Winter Olympics time, I cheer my team on and sing patriotic songs of victory. They represent my country so I think it's good to support them. And it's always fun to watch them kick the worlds butt.

Well, in SC-skiing, nordic combined, and biathalon. Sometimes the summer games seem more professionally oriented than the winter games and especially in XC skiing I can appreciate the endurance that it takes.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Where I come from, there was a huge, cult-like fanbase for the Raiders. The merch looks cool, but from what I heard they would lose all the time. Don't tell that to the fans though. They would beat someone up for even suggesting that.

I don't know much about them any more. Other than the fact that they moved to Vegas. My cousins still are obsessed with them.

 

[AndyFBlues]

I enjoy watching football and soccer on occasion. But after the game is over, I return to the real world. For those who have a financial interest in the sport, it is a business. For me it's just a game.

That being said, some folks in the sports world have used their high profile positions to bring public attention to worthy causes, which I find very commendable.

 

[Cryptid]

My interest in sports extends only to the final score. Even then, unless I have money riding on the outcome, it is not at all important to me. The only times I ever attended a match was when it occurred outside my dorm room (which overlooked the footie pitch), or when someone else bought the tickets and invited me along.

Matches are interesting to watch, but each one looks the same as all the rest -- just different uniforms.

 

[Mary Terry]

Seems a mistake that the Raiders dumped Derek Carr who seems to be holding his own with the Saints.

Give it a year or two and the Saints a/k/a the "Ain'ts" will nosedive again.

 

[Judge]

Where I come from, there was a huge, cult-like fanbase for the Raiders. The merch looks cool, but from what I heard they would lose all the time. Don't tell that to the fans though. They would beat someone up for even suggesting that.

I don't know much about them any more. Other than the fact that they moved to Vegas. My cousins still are obsessed with them.

Luckily for Nevada public relations, the original "Raider Nation" doesn't really exist any more. Though I still recall when it did, coming into contact with them decades ago at a game at the dreaded Kezar Stadium in The City.

Trying to watch the Raiders versus the Niners in person proved futile, with all the broken bottles and epithets flying over our heads. It wasn't a spectator event, but more like being in the middle of a war. And to think it was supposed to be just a friendly football game across the bay.

 

[Forest Cat]

Well, in SC-skiing, nordic combined, and biathalon. Sometimes the summer games seem more professionally oriented than the winter games and especially in XC skiing I can appreciate the endurance that it takes.

Have you seen the IKEA biathlon? This really should be an Olympic event

 

[tazz]

Trying to watch the Raiders versus the Niners in person proved futile, with all the broken bottles and epithets flying over our heads. It wasn't a spectator event, but more like being in the middle of a war. And to think it was supposed to be just a friendly football game across the bay

Sounds like your average premier league match...