The thesis of the post isn't to emulate anything. It's that if any teams fans show gratitude loyalty and commitment to any player who has ever played it should be patriot fans to Brady and too many of them do not appreciate what they have had.
What should I do as a Patriots fan who has these emotional states as regards Tom Brady, but am aware of empirical considerations that have changed, and continue to change, year after year?
I stipulate of course that
when the change comes is not mine to know. We don't have empirical evidence now. We also don't know the Foxborough calculus that determines when "a year too early is," and whether this calculus is the same for TFB as for everybody else.
All stipulated. I have man love for Brady, let's even say it's greater than yours. But my gray matter is capable of projecting possible futures. What am I to do, when our emotional states are identical as regards Brady, yet mine is tempered by knowledge of future uncertainties, and most likely "models" of how the Patriots have managed future downside risk?
Should I be ruled solely by my emotion, or should I entertain "clumps of outcomes" where, to my layman's eye, the uncertainties have greater chances of collapsing into actual events?
Your emotions are the heart of being a fan, read, fanatic. So are mine, so are all of ours.
I've seen potatoes on here impugning my Brady-love for the sin of listening to the analytical side of my brain. I freely admit it could be wrong, and that Brady is magic. But in every other case, the QB has not been magic or immortal. Ask "Magic Man" Majkowski. Ask his usurper, Brett Favrevrah. As the pre-Brady Brady, and Brady's hero, Joe Montana.
Your man-love for Brady is scheduled to change. There are three norns in Greek mythology who are presently watching Brady's career. One spins out the yarn of his career, one measures it, and one cuts it. Yes, the Norns now watch football.
Cope.
JG only comes into play because
to the extent that he fits the bill as successor (which might well be overexxagerated,) one question for future scenarios is answered.
To gauge this function of the JG variable, of course, there are confounding factors:
(1) He might be made of glass, and the coaching staff might have so judged him - and this is a head fake
(2) He might be fairly durable, which the coaching staff thinks is likely the deal - and asking high picks is selling high (but nobody's buying)
(3) They might be trying to keep him warm,
just in case.
(4) They might really really want to see what he can do, because the future is coming.
These are again big variables, as to how we place JG in any Brady conversation.
But whatever it's about it's not about how you have a bigger man crush on TFB than everybody else. It's about watching these developments with our eyes open, whatever our hearts say.
And I'm really, really sorry about Bernie Kosar. Not to mention Drew Bledsoe.
Don't talk short-term to me. "The day may come when the body of Brady fails, but this is not that day!" Okay I'm with you. We're not talking about today, we're talking about tomorrow, and when tomorrow comes.
Because however long or glorious the day, the night comes.
At some point we're just looking for the best possible Morning In New England.
It. Will. Happen.
And YES I love Tom freakin Brady - despite the fact that you and I both know he would never give a crap about meeting you, me, or anybody else on this board. We're part of the machine that pays for him. To him, we're ants in the way for the foundation of his next home, more or less. Then on a ******** talk basis, we related to him and him to us in a loving way.
You. Are. His. Fan. You mean nothing to him. You and I owe nothing to him. He doesn't really love us. Individually he doesn't know us or know of us. He does not give a ****, and neither could you if you were him. Too many people to "love."
He's the unprecedentedly successful QB of the team I follow. If we're thinking clearly, isn't that
it?
I LOVE watching what he's done. I
LOVE arguing against any idiot still claiming that his accolades aren't all they're cracked up to be. I am rooting for one, two, 5 superbowls more with the Patriots. The legend builds and builds and builds, huzzah! The dumb part of my brain is tickled.
But when it becomes Team Interest vs. Brady Interest, I'm a team fan, not a Brady fan.
We'll miss you when TFB goes.
(and yeah this thread is still going)
