We can and do.
My question is why do people feel the need to rain on people's parade?
I can easily explain why I don't like people raining on others parade. It's fairly simple. I think people should enjoy there pastime 100%. Allowing negativity creep in will not add to their enjoyment.
So many fans have allowed negativity to water down the thrills of victory with fears of the agony of defeat. A fun entertainment outlet can become an unhealthy obsession in some cases. (I live in the Philly market haha)
We all have every right to say almost anything we feel. That what makes this place so great.
I appreciate your perspective.
Fair point. I think the armchair GM/coach role is one that many fans love to play as it gets them even more involved in the sport. The polar extreme would be the fan that just looks at the box score and yells "Yay!" when his team has won. A byproduct of people wanting to dive deeper and analyze the team is the urge to critique or disagree with what the real management is doing. It has powered an industry of sports talk radio. It splits off into the tangent that is fantasy sports. Many times people aren't "raining on the parade" when they disagree with things. They are just expressing a viewpoint like "I wouldn't have spent a top 5 pick on a historically short lived position like running back that often features late picks or free agents with equal production." (Hands glasses to lackey sitting nearby to have them cleaned.)
As for Philly fans, they often have some parade rain in their DNA. It's just the nature of the beast in that area. My wife's whole family is from Bucks County.
I'm not hoping for Zeke to fail to see people rue. In a perfect world he runs for 2K behind the loaded Dallas line. I just have reservations that he was a great use of draft resources. I don't even think he was the best back in the Big Ten last year. Michigan players (acknowledging the rival hate of course) even said so. Barkley, from Penn State, should be a real sight to watch especially if he can run behind a 1-A offensive line.
And as for the early anointing, I'm simply old enough to know that you have to prove it over time, whether it's raining or sunny. RGIII was the greatest QB ever drafted by Washington a few years ago. Colin Kaepernick was the new prototype for the position. Morris Claiborne was the next Deion. How quickly things can change.
