Why you bash your own team

[Denim Chicken]

Your scared. Plane and simple. You are scared to be optimistic because you could be wrong. You may loose some credibility; you may be disappointed. You tout reality as a shield, but in reality there is no conceivable way you can really predict what will happen in the next game or the game after that, so you hedge your bets and bash the team with an added caveat: ‘hope I’m wrong’.

I am not blind. I see the deficiencies and I see patterns. I also realize that I, as a fan, have no power to change anything. I am not a coach, coordinator, or an owner. I am a fan. The definition of a fan is ‘an enthusiastic admirer or follower’. When I watch a game, I root for my team to win. I believe that they can win. Sometimes we do and sometimes we don’t, but I can’t imagine getting any joy going into a game and believing my favorite team will lose. I can’t imagine getting joy out of bashing the players I root for or the organization I love. If we won it all, while you discredited the team all year, could you enjoy the victory?

That what fans of other teams do, they badmouth the Cowboys. Many of you have joined them. Many of you have been praising our enemies. Many of you have been constantly harping on negative themes—searching for negatives—to the point where I wonder if you get any joy whatsoever from watching this team. If you don’t, I think you need to ask yourself why you still follow this team. Nobody is forcing you and you can leave anytime.

Fandom is like a marriage, you have good times and you have bad times. Do you believe you marriage will fail when going through the hard times? Do you bash your wife and praise a harlot? Do you give up? Reevaluate how you feel. Some of you need counseling, some of you need a divorce.

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[casmith07]

Masochism?

 

[burmafrd]

Masochism?

possibly

 

[WV Cowboy]

Fandom is like a marriage, you have good times and you have bad times. Do you believe you marriage will fail when going through the hard times? Do you bash your wife and praise a harlot? Do you give up? Reevaluate how you feel. Some of you need counseling, some of you need a divorce.

"Fandom" is absolutely nothing like marriage.

My wife has vowed her loyalty to me, and has never varied from that for 37+ years.

The Cowboys don't even know I exist.

Try again.

 

[superpunk]

cool story bro

Once you let the forum up from your pseudo-psychiatrist couch maybe you'll realize that people bash the team because we're 3-3, we've been a .500 team for a decade...and no matter how the cast of characters changes year after year we come out and establish that "Dallas Cowboys football" is code for mistake-filled, stupid football that leads to the aforementioned .500 ball records.

And people need a place to vent. Not all of us can have werm hats.

 

[casmith07]

cool story bro

Once you let the forum up from your pseudo-psychiatrist couch maybe you'll realize that people bash the team because we're 3-3, we've been a .500 team for a decade...and no matter how the cast of characters changes year after year we come out and establish that "Dallas Cowboys football" is code for mistake-filled, stupid football that leads to the aforementioned .500 ball records.

And people need a place to vent. Not all of us can have werm hats.

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[Denim Chicken]

cool story bro

Once you let the forum up from your pseudo-psychiatrist couch maybe you'll realize that people bash the team because we're 3-3, we've been a .500 team for a decade...and no matter how the cast of characters changes year after year we come out and establish that "Dallas Cowboys football" is code for mistake-filled, stupid football that leads to the aforementioned .500 ball records.

And people need a place to vent. Not all of us can have werm hats.

Do you enjoy watching the Cowboys?

 

[Yoshimitsu]

What a load of nonsense. I don't care for the optimism crowd or realist. Because whether the cowboys win or lose it doesn't affect my life. THIS IS ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE.

The fact you compared fandom with marriage is completely ********. The cowboys damn sure don't cook for me or love me back. Or any other needs if you know what i'm saying.

But the point is i have control of those things and personal interactions with another person. Fandom? Its just a game of hope when you have no influence or power to affect the outcome at all. You are living an vicarious existence with fandom.

 

[casmith07]

Do you enjoy watching the Cowboys?

Does a snake have hips?

 

[burmafrd]

Does a snake have hips?

does a chicken have lips?

 

[superpunk]

Do you enjoy watching the Cowboys?

 

[Denim Chicken]

What a load of nonsense. I don't care for the optimism crowd or realist. Because whether the cowboys win or lose it doesn't affect my life. THIS IS ENTERTAINMENT PEOPLE.

The fact you compared fandom with marriage is completely ********. The cowboys damn sure don't cook for me or love me back. Or any other needs if you know what i'm saying.

But the point is i have control of those things and personal interactions with another person. Fandom? Its just a game of hope when you have no influence or power to affect the outcome at all. You are living an vicarious existence with fandom.

That is exactly what I was saying. If it pains you to watch this team why do you do it? Entertainment should bring you joy, no?

Also, the marriage thing is a metaphor. Not saying being a fan is being married to the team, just saying that some attributes are similar.

 

[casmith07]

does a chicken have lips?

Does Dolly Parton sleep on her stomach?

 

[Yoshimitsu]

That is exactly what I was saying. If it pains you to watch this team why do you do it? Entertainment should bring you joy, no?

Also, the marriage thing is a metaphor. Not saying being a fan is being married to the team, just saying that some attributes are similar.

I don't feel pain at all. To be quite honest i don't care. I have other important matters i enjoy then to get down just because a group of men lost a football game that get paid millions in the process to do it. I watch the game for entertainment and the sake of sport.

Do i have opinions to what i think is wrong or right with the team? Yes i do. But that is all they are is my humble opinions. When the cowboys start screwing up i actually start laughing and think to myself. "They guys on CZ are going nuts right now"

Its all a game. Everything is joy to me. Even when the team sucks.

 

[Hostile]

I don't feel pain at all. To be quite honest i don't care. I have other important matters i enjoy then to get down just because a group of men lost a football game that get paid millions in the process to do it. I watch the game for entertainment and the sake of sport.

Do i have opinions to what i think is wrong or right with the team? Yes i do. But that is all they are is my humble opinions. When the cowboys start screwing up i actually start laughing and think to myself. "They guys on CZ are going nuts right now"

Its all a game. Everything is joy to me. Even when the team sucks.

I just really like everything about this post.

I refuse to let wins get me too high or losses to get me too low. I love the game itself.

 

[superpunk]

I don't feel pain at all. To be quite honest i don't care. I have other important matters i enjoy then to get down just because a group of men lost a football game that get paid millions in the process to do it. I watch the game for entertainment and the sake of sport.

Do i have opinions to what i think is wrong or right with the team? Yes i do. But that is all they are is my humble opinions. When the cowboys start screwing up i actually start laughing and think to myself. "They guys on CZ are going nuts right now"

Its all a game. Everything is joy to me. Even when the team sucks.

You're not a real fan if you don't litter this forum with angst-filled overly-dramatic posts about how your fellow fans *should* be acting. Get with the program bro.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I don't feel pain at all. To be quite honest i don't care. I have other important matters i enjoy then to get down just because a group of men lost a football game that get paid millions in the process to do it. I watch the game for entertainment and the sake of sport.

Do i have opinions to what i think is wrong or right with the team? Yes i do. But that is all they are is my humble opinions. When the cowboys start screwing up i actually start laughing and think to myself. "They guys on CZ are going nuts right now"

Its all a game. Everything is joy to me. Even when the team sucks.

Yeah, I'm the same way, but the Cowboys are still my favorite team. If they lose, I'll admit I'm disapointed. But I don't get obsessive, trying to break down every mistake so I can beat my chest and yell at those who believe that the next game could be a win.

 

[links18]

Y but in reality there is no conceivable way you can really predict what will happen in the next game or the game after that, so you hedge your bets and bash the team with an added caveat: ‘hope I’m wrong’.

No conceivable way? Prior record, past performance, stats, etc. provide no guide at all? Reality is always unpredictable, but to adopt the kind of attitude you suggest is to give up on rationalism altogether.

 

[Denim Chicken]

No conceivable way? Prior record, past performance, stats, etc. provide no guide at all? Reality is always unpredictable, but to adopt the kind of attitude you suggest is to give up on rationalism altogether.

And what, pray tell, am i suggesting?

 

[superpunk]

No conceivable way? Prior record, past performance, stats, etc. provide no guide at all? Reality is always unpredictable, but to adopt the kind of attitude you suggest is to give up on rationalism altogether.

Fairly certain when Vegas sets the lines they are just throwing old gum at a wall of numbers and seeing where it sticks.