don't get me wrong. i'm on a F U haters train too. but it's obvious that we are a spoiled fan base. we should be. brady and bb spoiled us.
but seriously who gives a #@# if media ball washes rodgers? i mean talk about being so damn spoiled. we have bigger fish to fry. eyes\ and i wish pats fans stop dissing other great players. rodgers is a great friggin player.
I disagree that we're a spoiled fanbase. Our expectations are where they are because of how the team's played over the last 20 years. We expect winning and greatness because that's what we get, and sports radio can't survive with "rah rah go team" stuff, so they have to dig into negativity in order to get listeners.
If they suck and have a bad game, it's ok to say that they suck and had a bad game. That's not being spoiled. This isn't college, they're being paid to perform. There isn't a college presence here, so our fanbase is a professional sports fanbase, so that's the mentality.
It's like, when people complain that Brady's "still in the game" if they're way ahead. My response is always, "If Brady's afraid of getting hit, he should retire, he gets paid to get hit too".
So no, I don't think we're spoiled. I think there are plenty of us who can sit back and reflect on what we're witnessing at times - but for the most part, the time for that is when it's all over. And, it's not over yet. You know, it sucks the Lions have never made the Super Bowl, sure, but I'm supposed to feel badly about that? That their owners and coaches and management and players except for like Barry Sanders and Lem Barney over the last 50 years have sucked? That's not my problem, and I don't think I should feel bad about that, and I don't think it makes me spoiled to not think "Wow, sure am glad I'm not the Lions".
The Lions are irrelevant to me.
You're right that Rodgers is a very good-to-great player, and fun to watch at times. I don't think I saw a single person in this thread say he "sucks", I think they're just tired of people calling him the Greatest of All-Time, when he doesn't have that kind of resume yet.
Also, the facts that Aaron Rodgers has never come back from more than 9 points down, has just 9 4th-quarter comebacks in 7+ years as a starter, a 2-5 playoff record if you take out 2010 (which you can't, it's just for argument, that he got hot in 2010), one of those wins being against Joe Webb, and two of the biggest playoff choke jobs ever (including just that year) - Those things are allowed to be brought up too, even if they're not in the media, ever. Those, to me, also go to his legacy, and into the discussion as to whether or not he deserves to be "Greatest of All Time".
To me, he's not, and he's going to have to do some pretty amazing things to get into that discussion, in my mind.
