Re: NFL 2015-2016 Season - Maybe extra points actually ... matter? Wha
Now, you know, you're still wrong, right? I am assuming that's the reason you're kind of tip toeing around. Correct me if I'm wrong.
There wasn't any tip toeing there. You set the bar for good/bad season, and now that they haven't gotten there on any of the points you selected, you still want to claim victory for being right? Per your bar, they won't have a winning season, no playoffs, and can't point at the major injury caveat you put in there. But you were still right? How's that work?
Seems like my comment about the Raiders staying stuck at mediocre and failing to get above 8-8 again was pretty much spot on. Reasons for optimism, but no change to results yet. Not to say things aren't showing signs of turning around, but since you'd have made a big deal about it if i was wrong and they finished 9-7 or better, made the playoffs, etc. should at least acknowledge you wiffed on this one this year. I could add in the challenges to masculinity that you seem to prefer, but you get the idea. Sack up and admit I wasn't wrong.
Like there wasn't a massive swelling in the number of Pats' fans when Brady led them to his first SB win back in 2002 or whenever it was. BTW, no doubt that wave of new fans also caught you up in it's wake? Am I right? Tell the truth.
Can't argue some of that, as like you said, any championship run will garner some of that. Just because you're ancient doesn't mean that everyone else is a 'tween, though. I watched through plenty of shitty Patriots seasons with my family prior to Brady. Shitty, crumby teams in a dumpy stadium that were never going anywhere. The run in '95 (loss to green bay) was probably the era where i started to watch more on my own, independently of them though. Which would have also been when i was about 14. Bandwagon probably got going in 01/02, let a few people off after a crappy 02 season, and then filled back up after the 03/04 back to back wins. Would like to think that if you were looking for signs of optimism instead of a bandwagon to hop on, you'd have gotten on with Bledsoe and Parcells, though. that's when the franchise started the process of not sucking/being an embarrassment.
So no, didn't hop on with Brady. Thanks for asking. Spent plenty of years getting pissed at Bledsoe for throwing up a jump ball every time he was about to get sacked, adding an interception to the list of shit that went wrong with the play. His worst quality...
The only difference between thousands and thousands of Pats and Seahawk fans over the last 15 years, is the Pats bandwagoners probably have about an 11 year head start.
For some people, that's true. of course, you can't use that to denigrate Pats fans while denying it's a factor for Seahawks fans, can you? Personally find the 12th Man stuff a little sickly sweet, but like I said, feel the same way about the garbage Red Sox fans in the pink bedazzled hats, so there you go.
End of the day, it was STILL pretty tone deaf to complain about a rule/set up that benefited their team just a couple years prior. Don't have to dig into the film archives, wasn't before the league merger, not even pre-internet; it was 2010.
Would you tolerate a new Pats fan in 2005 bitching about a Tuck Rule call that went against them in a game (hypothetical, although there WAS a tuck rule call that went against the Pats earlier in 2001, which is why it was less shocking in the playoffs, but anyway), oblivious to the 2001-2002 playoffs? I'm sure you'd just let it go without comment, and think no less of the guy
That said, not sure how you don't pick them to at least go to the Superbowl at this point, they're very hot right now, and don't seem to be suffering many of the same injuries that are killing everyone else. Maybe they'll stumble, but gotta at least like their chances. On the AFC side, still like the Patriots (if they can stop losing key people), but Steelers are a definite wild card that I hope they get to avoid, because they look hot right now.