Patjew

I'm proud and ashamed to say that I remember almost no details from what happened on the field that day. I even had to look up the score.

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TrueBeliever

You know, these are very good points. Again, I have to bring up the stupid Packer fans, who talk about "blah blah every game at Lambeau Field is sold out for the last 60 years, back in 1991 the Pats were lucky to get 20,000 fans at a game." It could be argued that maybe we have better things to do with our time than watch our team get the crap beat out of it. Unlike in 90% of Wisconsin.

Seriously though, when do you say it just ain't worth it to even go? It's one thing to be a total fairweather fan who only goes when the team is a perennial Super Bowl contender and winning most games by 42-10. I generally like to know that my team can at least put up a good show of it when I go to a game. Like when the wife and I went to the Pats-Chargers game in 2005 as part of our honeymoon, thinking that would be a good game. It was a lousy game, and not in the Pats' favor. Considering they were back-to-back league champs, they looked like they hardly belonged on the same field as the Bolts that day. If the Pats were playing like that most games, I don't think we would have been as eager to fit that game into our honeymoon plans.

Some years back I read an editorial, maybe in Sports Illustrated, saying that the Chicago Cubs were destined to be one of the worst franchises in base-ball because so much of their fan base just keeps showing up to games because they love Wrigley Field. The writer even went so far as to argue that the Cubs should get a new ballpark to force themselves to get better. That's a bit extreme, but I can see why it makes sense. If your fans are going to keep coming every year, and your main concern is profit, what's to motivate you to make the team any better? Look at the Bengals, fer cryin' out loud. As long as Mike Brown is making enough money every year, he could care less that his team is a perennial doormat.

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Mike the Brit

You'd think so. Revenue sharing is guaranteed money -- just show up for work, loaf on the job, get paid. But it doesn't work that way completely. Just look at the perennial doormat Saints -- and the Cardinals made the Superbowl the year before. Says a lot for the pride and ambition of the coaches.

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lillestroom

People say how bad the Pats were when they made the bowl first time round.

But geez... the Cardinals are an average team. Warner was on his last legs, Fitzy is a great WR and they've never had a ground game. The D has been completely average.