What's the alternative to acceptance?
We can find a winner that better suits our needs for contending. Or we accept things out of our control and realize we're just along for the ride.
The Dallas Cowboys of the 70's and 90's are just history, built by different people. I would prefer to be in my 20's or 40's as I was then but I am not and can't go find a new body so I am stuck with this one in it's 70's. I can either accept that or piss and moan about it and end up being a 71 year old pissin' moaner.
Someone on the old forum described being a Cowboys fan, and it was much worse then, as being in love with a bad woman that treats you like crap but you just can't quit her. Oh, you can pack your bags and drive around all day but come nighttime, you just gravitate back home and into that bed that you've shared for so long. That's me, visionary, I've tried and I can't quit her, too much history and memories with her. And if anyone outside the family badmouths her, I'll defend her to the end.
Love the old days, 20 years of winning seasons and 5 trips in the first 20 years but she started to age in the last 20, not as pretty as she once was but she can still get dolled up every now and then to remind me of what she once looked like. But, I am resigned to the fact that she may never be really pretty again but then I remember I didn't just sign on to be there when she was pretty and others love really ugly ones but we all share that one thing that is so hard to understand how it arrived and why it won't leave, loyalty.