Focus please. This latest discussion about why your team is all-time great worthy is about Clyde Gates. Not once in your example did anyone already proclaim Gates was great.
Hope. It's a funny thing. I know for a fact you have hope that the Jets season will be more like their elite years (sarcasm) rather than .500.
do you have to take every word literally? the point is the Gates talk was nonstop about how good he would be and now that he is gone he sucks just like so many before him. Whether it was telling me how great Calvin pace was when rumors had Miami signing him then telling me how he sucked when we signed him or how great a coach Saban was going to be or Cameron, Sparano and now Philbin. How great Daunte was, Green, Henne,... How great Hartline was going to be become, gates, etc...