tyke1doe
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notherbob;2518176 said:You are right, it's a choice but in order not to feel crushed when the team loses, you have to give up some of the elation when they win. Everything has a price.
If you're playing the game you should experience the full range of emotions but if you are watching someone else play for a team you are not part of, you need to exercise control over your emotions from the start otherwise you're setting yourself up for an inevitable disaster over something you had no control over or influence upon.
People need to learn to put themselves first and take mcare of their own feelings because the teams certainly aren't going to - they hagve their own problems.
Translation: People need to get a life or a better perspective on life.
Yes, be a fan. Be upset if your team wins or loses. But hopefully you have enough of a life to realize that whether the Cowboys win and lose that's not one of life's most important things.
I can say before I was married and had children, and before the Cowboys won Super Bowls, I was more emotional about loses. I never cried or anything, but I recall the Leon Lett Thanksgiving Day blunder left me without an appetite. I just went to my childhood room (was at my parent's house) and went to sleep.
But as I started to discover more important things in life (and having tasted victory vicariously through the 92, 93 and 95 Super Bowl wins), I've become better balanced in how I handle wins and loses.