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Hey, Brownfan, I've seen your posts over the months and enjoyed them. Yeah this one looks like... what can I say... yeah, the best term is you've lost perspective. But great posts in the past, and looking forward to good posts when you return.

Do what you need to do, all the best on the music track (which might really be where your head needs to be right now.)

PFnV

Oh please. I understand being upset about a loss, but I hope you'll realize in a few days you're being a bit of a drama queen.

Here's the newsflash that everyone who roots for a team not called the Yankees understands since about age 7:

BEING A SPORTS FAN IS A TOUGH GIG.

That's the bottom line. The losing sucks way more than the winning feels good, and no amount of winning is ever enough. Love your team, root them on, and then bend over and get ready to take it hard, because that's what being a sports fan really is all about in the end.

The funny thing about your post is that you suggest that you have a choice whether or not to be a patriots fan. If you do, then you're a lot luckier than many of us, and you probably should just move along. Why anyone other than a masochist would, as an adult, voluntarily submit to being a sports fanatic is beyond me. I don't have a choice, like you apparently do. So your choice is not an option for me. Once upon a time, I'd get ride for 2.5 hours back and forth with my dad, and then spend 4 hours in the freezing cold with him, a couple of times a year. And for that day, I had him all to myself. And painted on the field was the word "Patriots" and that was the end. I never had a choice. So if you do, congratulations -- back the Fu*k out, and do it now, because as sure as I'm sitting here, I can promise you that being a fan will continue to hold virtually continuous heartbreak. That's the fact. Sports is a tough gig.

I suspect that like all of us, you don't have a choice and you're just venting. Which I can appreciate. So get it out of your system, and see you in a week.

Please don't lose hope. We've made it further than we did last year. This is an exciting and talented team w/a lot of potential. We're so lucky to have what we have. Here's to looking forward to the off-season of moves and DA BEARS kicking Peyton's sorry *****$$$!!!

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Does anyone remember the stretch between 1998 and 2001 when Boston didnt have one team play a single playoff game? Or the Championship drought the city had from 1986 to 2001?

Lets have perspective.

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Maybe not the Pats, Im pretty sure every single other Boston team was in the playoffs at least once from 98 to 2001. I know the Sox were, they had the Pedro God performance in 99.

Seels said:

Maybe not the Pats, Im pretty sure every single other Boston team was in the playoffs at least once from 98 to 2001. I know the Sox were, they had the Pedro God performance in 99.

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I stand corrected. Oct 1999 through Jan 19,2002 (snow game) there wasnt one playoff game played amongst the 4 teams. thanks for catching that

good riddance

this is where the men are separated from the boys

we lost playoff games two years in a row and you wanna re-examine your life? did you do that when we beat the Eagles???

just go away and don't give us a dramatic exit...

Your pathetic.


This post should be moved to the Visiting Locker Room forum.

Bf80, I feel your pain. It hurts for sure. This is the worst I've felt for about 53 weeks. I guess that makes me pretty lucky, overall. Perspective is the key here. We'll get over it and move on.

we all hurt to different extents

let's leave some slack out there and get ready for 2007!

Definitely sucks but we have SB 36,38,39, playoff games are supposed to be tough - you don't win them all. It's really bad but it's the reason teams don't win 3 out of 4 very often.

You need some perspective man. If you're using the football season as an excuse not to get your music career going, it's just that, an excuse. The real world is way more important than football games. Straighten yourself out and don't get fired over a football game. That's just nuts.

Today was a very disappoiting loss but the Pats CAN be in it again next year with the right moves.

I felt the same way for about 15-20 minutes. Felt like death, like I was going to cry.

Then I walked outside my room, kicked some trashcans down, watched some Seinfeld, grabbed some food, and now I'm good. Not only that, but I've decided to root for the Colts in the Super Bowl. Hey, we've had so much glory over the past few years... they feel the way we do right now every other year. Let's share, right?

We'll be back. As long as we have #12.

I'm thinking about burning my Klecko jersey in effigy though.

whatever it takes to compete for another title next year

Brownfan80 said:

Call me fair weather call me whatever you will. F*ck you. I'm tired of putting quite the energy into this team that I do. I realize now that my time could have probably been better spent. I'm also an aspiring musician that has put my music completely on hold every ****ing football season, and I'm tired of it.


I'm probably going to get into a huge fight with all the **** talking Dolphins fans at my work tomorrow. Might get fired. Whatever, I don't care.

I'm so upset right now I just wish I could die.

I'm taking a break from this board, patsfans, and from the Patriots in general... until I figure out how to make a loss feel like no big deal then I have no room to ever root for a sports team again.

I swear. I feel like murder.
I feel like death to someone is the only answer. And that's not healthy.

**** you Chargers fans that'll get a kick out of this, you don't know what it feels like since you've never been in this position.

We're all human, we all deserve to feel right, and I don't feel right and that's not healthy. I don't feel healthy. Too much of my life rides on the Patriots.

I'd post this on patsfans to but it's been hacked or whatever again (errors out the ass). Whatever. I need to get my head right and now is not the time.

****.

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I hope that you find a happy place. I have been a fan enough long enough to appreciate what the team accomplished this year. I am not satisfied with the outcome, but you can't win it all every year. I remember many losing seasons, do you?

all this loss does for me is put my life in perspective. Like the poster that talked about his daughter, there are other things in this world (although I know we dont like to admit it) than just patriots football. i live and die with this team just like everyone else, I have a splitting headache from simply watching the game, not screaming, but watching the game.

There are more things in my life though, just as I am sure there are things in your life you care about, like your music. Im telling you, this is rough. I thought i would never feel worse in my entire life than how I felt after the Denver game last year, but i do feel worse. But tommorow I am going to wake up and go to my classes and then go to work, and live my life again. It will take a while to get over, but it will all be worth it next season.

Seriously though, if your not a fan of the Pats after this season then you clearly were never a true fan. There are many Pats fans that suffered through much much much (x1000000) worse than anything that has happened during the last 6 years.

All this *****ing and moaning reminds me of Yankee fans who feel it is their destiny to win every year. You win some, you lose some, but in the end the Pats have Brady and BB who will still be here next year.

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Seriously though, if your not a fan of the Pats after this season then you clearly were never a true fan. There are many Pats fans that suffered through much much much (x1000000) worse than anything that has happened during the last 6 years.

All this *****ing and moaning reminds me of Yankee fans who feel it is their destiny to win every year. You win some, you lose some, but in the end the Pats have Brady and BB who will still be here next year.

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!thank you!

At the start of the playoffs, i felt my productivity in the office dropped, just like many of you. I was just going through the motions. Just before the Colts game, I was wrestling with a particular legal problem. When the Colts won, I was greatly disappointed. After prayer, my mind sort of cleared. When I looked again at the legal problem I was studying, I noticed a very good legal argument that I didn't see before. Life goes on. When God closes a door, He opens another. Still, I have very high hopes for the Pats future. Let's all look forward to free agency, draft, rookie minicamp, training camp. Go Pats.:rocker:

Brownfan80 said:

Call me fair weather call me whatever you will. F*ck you. I'm tired of putting quite the energy into this team that I do. I realize now that my time could have probably been better spent. I'm also an aspiring musician that has put my music completely on hold every ****ing football season, and I'm tired of it.


I'm probably going to get into a huge fight with all the **** talking Dolphins fans at my work tomorrow. Might get fired. Whatever, I don't care.

I'm so upset right now I just wish I could die.

I'm taking a break from this board, patsfans, and from the Patriots in general... until I figure out how to make a loss feel like no big deal then I have no room to ever root for a sports team again.

I swear. I feel like murder.
I feel like death to someone is the only answer. And that's not healthy.

**** you Chargers fans that'll get a kick out of this, you don't know what it feels like since you've never been in this position.

We're all human, we all deserve to feel right, and I don't feel right and that's not healthy. I don't feel healthy. Too much of my life rides on the Patriots.

I'd post this on patsfans to but it's been hacked or whatever again (errors out the ass). Whatever. I need to get my head right and now is not the time.

****.

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is this was it really bothering you in your life? my guess is there are some other issues to deal with here. i shared some laughs and good coversation with a co worker just mins after the game ended, and with a freind later that night. i had a fine time sunday night. its just a football game, life goes on.

Seymour93 said:

Exactly.

I felt the same as Brownfan for about 10 minutes after the INT, but then reality hits you - we don't have a devine right to win everything and we did a a pretty damn good job this season when you think about it. This team has problems (and we still should've won) but who else would you rather have to fix them than BB and Pioli?

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Does anybody know that Belichick will be back next year? This was the final season of his contract and I never heard anything of an extension...