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| ehm wrote: | | I still have faith in the Cavs and Lebron though, and he's going to stay. Fuck all the haters, this city will be held high one day. I've been a firm believer in that all my life, and it will start with the attitude of the fans and the people. I can understand the angst the fans have, but there has to be an underlying faith, not this turncoat "ah shit just another loss fuckk it" bullshit. That's not the attitude that wins. |
Try living through Red Right 88, The Drive, The Fumble and Jordan - not to mention the last two years of the Cavs giving away 2 rings - before you chime in and start calling people "turncoat". Sorry, I'm choosing to live in reality for the next 39 years to offset the previous 39 being spent in total denial of reality. People of my era have earned the right to tune out. I've gone to games, bought merchandise damn near every year of my life, kept up hope, choked down all the heartache & humiliation, so you'll have to excuse my indignation when I say kindly take that attitude somewhere else. 
The fury from everyone stems from this having been the greatest opportunity since '64 to win a ring for the city since Kosar, and maybe ever. And for whatever combination of reasons, whether it was heart, coaching, supporting cast, elbow or all of the above, they fucking tanked it. 99% of other NBA teams in other cities don't do that. The best teams in the regular season win the fucking ring. Only in Cleveland can the team with the 2-time MVP and best overall record take as big of a shit as the Cavs just did. It's not turncoat or fairweather or anything else - it's being fed the fuck up with having your hopes dashed time after time after time after time after time after time.
| curved.space.labs wrote: | well that's just it - I'd been an actual hardcore fan since I was able to comprehend the game...basically since I was 9 or 10 and started giving a shit about it. I probably invested more time and energy into knowing everything about the franchise than 95% of the rest of the fans - from knowing the roster inside and out, the coaching staff, the schemes, our stats all season long...you name it.
I'm someone who got DirecTV in NY as soon as we moved there JUST for Sunday Ticket so we could watch the Browns return to the league. I followed through thick and thin...from Sipe & Alzado to Kosar & Langhorne & Slaughter to MDP & E-Rock...I went to the friggin' practices every training camp, ffs. I'd watch the draft, follow every single analysis, record any sports show that even made mention of them...
They've been more my team than most people I've met in my life.
And that being said, it is absolutely insane that the team I've given so much to in my life can't get it's head out of it's own asshole, so I'm tuning the fuck out.
The Browns have been shit since they came back in the league even moreso than the prior 30 years after the '64 Championship, and it's not going to change. No professional franchise has done less with whatever talent they've possessed than the Browns, and they never had that much - no matter how much we all wanted to convince ourselves as loyal fans. We all said, "yeah, man - this is the year - look at our team!", but the cold, hard fact of the matter is that was pure delusion. Deep down, I think everyone knows the deal but just won't admit it to themselves out of some strange sense of guilt.
Not saying I'm never going to follow them again, but for the love of fuck, get it together. And I have earned that right to tune 'em out and come back when they can actually field a real NFL team that can compete exactly because I've given so much and never received anything back except misery and letdown. I've earned the right to say "Fuck you, Lerner", and play a MusicMan Stingray and smoke doobies until such time they can finally give me something in return.
Just not holding my breath. Did that all this time and it got me zilch...so....
I know what's going to happen on 98% of the plays before they happen. I already know the outcome....difference is in the last 10 years, I'd actually try to convince myself the outcome would be different. It's nothing but false hope. |
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