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I remember in the 1990s, early 2000, I would hugley anticipate the new football season. Each loss seemed to hurt. Even when we were 'good', the season usaully ended in horror. As I was watching yet another debacle, my friend(Giant fan) commented to me, where is the old fiery guy I knew, hung on every play, broke stuff, excitable. He noted the last about 4-5 years, my enthusiam and demeanor during games, has diminished immensly. he said, are u getting older, or have the Fins crushed ur spirit. I basically said, there have been so many crushing losses, I expect bad things at this point, and its gonna take alot to change things, anyone else feel this way.
 
If you let it bring you down.........it will. sure I like, and want, to see the Fins win, but it's not the end of the world if they lose. That's the way I see it, anyway!! I could be wrong and looked at as not a true fan because I don't go breaking stuff or acting like a complete fool if the Dolphins lose, but I really don't care. I know for myself the team that I am a fan of and that's the Miami Dolphins. Always have...always will. Gotta keep things in perspective.
 
FinFan84 said:
I remember in the 1990s, early 2000, I would hugley anticipate the new football season. Each loss seemed to hurt. Even when we were 'good', the season usaully ended in horror. As I was watching yet another debacle, my friend(Giant fan) commented to me, where is the old fiery guy I knew, hung on every play, broke stuff, excitable. He noted the last about 4-5 years, my enthusiam and demeanor during games, has diminished immensly. he said, are u getting older, or have the Fins crushed ur spirit. I basically said, there have been so many crushing losses, I expect bad things at this point, and its gonna take alot to change things, anyone else feel this way.
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take 1 game at a time... forget about last week... concentrate on this week... go find some football amnesia and use it... Jets game, what Jets game... I thought we were playing the Cardinals
 
I disagree.. I was up more for this season's opener than I have been for an opener in about a decade.

That's just me.
 
FinFan84 said:
I remember in the 1990s, early 2000, I would hugley anticipate the new football season. Each loss seemed to hurt. Even when we were 'good', the season usaully ended in horror. As I was watching yet another debacle, my friend(Giant fan) commented to me, where is the old fiery guy I knew, hung on every play, broke stuff, excitable. He noted the last about 4-5 years, my enthusiam and demeanor during games, has diminished immensly. he said, are u getting older, or have the Fins crushed ur spirit. I basically said, there have been so many crushing losses, I expect bad things at this point, and its gonna take alot to change things, anyone else feel this way.
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I understand you but to give you a little hope. I am a NFL sunday ticket guy, last year i went with the Radio NFL pass. After week one I called and demanded my money back because I knew- felt it down deep Miami would do nothing of note and it made me sick to my stomach and somehwere down deep i was hoping i was making a statement- i demanded a better product (i know it meant nothing)

Heck my insanity even went as far as sending Capers a letter saying that you and everyone on YOUR defense doesnt deserve to work in the NFL and that he was a disgrace to our orginaztion. (yes i know it was never read)

But this last loss felt different. My son wanted to turn the game off at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. I explained that this team is not last years team.
1.I dont see them folding. (and they didnt)
2.This team will learn from their mistakes
3.This team will grow together and eventually stars will start to emerge.

and even after a loss, my fire is starting to grow.

Of course this is just a feeling- but my feelings have been right too often to ignore.
 
Greyboy said:
I disagree.. I was up more for this season's opener than I have been for an opener in about a decade.

That's just me.
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thats crazy. i was up for the opener as well, but after the game, it was just like another game. 4-5 years ago a loss ****ed my whole week up. now its like nothing. whatever almost. i dont want to be like that either.

btw, i cant possibly fathem you being more up for this game then 02 season....i was estatic beyond comprehension about rickys first year.
 
I hadn't been as excited as I was on sunday for a while but at the end of that game I was kicking and screaming just like I would when we were in the playoff hunt and Fiedler would throw game ending INT's.
 
When your not expecting wins, your not upset over losses. Its not that big of a surprise to think your spirit is a bit diminished at this point. Its also a bit realistic. I mean, after 6-10, then 1-15, now 0-1, i mean, how pumped canyou possibly be?
 
I wasn't getting as mad as I use to. The losing has slowly gotten to me, that and I guess I just don't have much Dolphins stuff left to break:( I was pretty fired up at the end when they got that stop on D and got the ball back and then I was pretty nuts when Ricky made that catch and got out of bounds I thought they were going to do it.
 
Ed Norton said:
I wasn't getting as mad as I use to. The losing has slowly gotten to me, that and I guess I just don't have much Dolphins stuff left to break:( I was pretty fired up at the end when they got that stop on D and got the ball back and then I was pretty nuts when Ricky made that catch and got out of bounds I thought they were going to do it.
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me too bro. Which means, its still there. The more we see, the more the passion returns.
 
I still get fired up before gametime only difference is for years this team has stunk so the enthusiasm dissapears as the game goes on and the mistakes begin to mount. We won just 1 stinkin game last year and IMO I didnt believe they would win many of those games I watched while waiting for them to blow it. And they always blew it so its tough to stay up when you keep seeing the same mistakes you have been seeing for years.
 
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