How Does a Pats Win or Loss Affect Your Life?

[Halifax_Pats_Fan]

I am not gonna lie the day after the final loss I get down and stay down for about a couple days....I think a big part of it is because football is over for the year. After mid-week I snap the hell out of it. Probably is how the players feel too.

The fact that is it the coldest weeks o the year doesn't help. If I was down in Miami i'd be like....'ok that's life, I'm going to head to the beach and chill'.

We all love our team...

 

[PittPatriot]

Simmons wrote about someone he found laying in the street after SB36 in New Orleans. He went over to the guy to ask him if he was alright. The guy rolled over, tears streaming down his face and kept saying “The Patriots won the Super Bowl”- over and over.

Don’t get me wrong: we are all hard core Patriots fans here...
But what sane person would be crying while lying in the street overcome with joy?
Or maybe Bill Simmons just manufactured an anecdote to sell his point of how huge that Patriots win was.

 

[Patjew]

Don’t get me wrong: we are all hard core Patriots fans here...
But what sane person would be crying while lying in the street overcome with joy?
Or maybe Bill Simmons just manufactured an anecdote to sell his point of how huge that Patriots win was.

Simmons is a ****. Sooooo lame.

But TBH I cried after SBs 36 and 51, though only in my home... NEVER on the street.

 

[bormio]

Don’t get me wrong: we are all hard core Patriots fans here...
But what sane person would be crying while lying in the street overcome with joy?
Or maybe Bill Simmons just manufactured an anecdote to sell his point of how huge that Patriots win was.

Maybe someone who was drunk. And maybe he did make it up. But some people do cry with joy. Especially if they have had a lot of heartache before.

 

[Coolade2]

Good question for gamblers... This guy Ill contact could use his winnings for a lap dance that would actually make his **** bigger.

once it's over..........zero difference......it's entertainment.......

it's not like my **** grows any bigger if they win

Either way for me.. my gf and I are going to Palawan island the next day. So I created a built in " move on it was a good season " ... Just in case..!!

Win and I’ll have $1,380 more than I do now. Lose and I don’t have to pay any attention to football til April. I ride the win high longer than the loss low.

Yup. Laying money down makes for juicy response to this thread. What? Only 1380.?

 

[obgod3]

I dont care anymore...its a dam football game...doesnt change anything the day after....nothing at all.....after the SB win against the Falcons nothing will ever eclipse it...

Whatever.....Monday doesnt change.

 

[Coolade2]

I remember the toughest losses were .... 42, Ravens when Ridley was knocked out by Pollard., Jets when Welker was benched... Wait.. they all sucked.

 

[Kdo5]

It matters not after a few glasses of whiskey.

 

[brdmaverick]

I wish I could say it doesn’t effect me, but damn I just care too much. Of course 5 super bowl wins makes any loss these days far more bearable

If it’s a painful loss that comes down to a key play at the end that will eat at me all off season

 

[primetime]

once it's over..........zero difference......it's entertainment.......

it's not like my **** grows any bigger if they win

Clearly you aren't a real fan because my **** grows bigger if they win

 

[edkk323]

I am in China. I never missed a single game in the past five years. The time zone is about 12-13 hour difference.
With that said, we all need to stop over identifying with a professional team. We can all learn their passion, hard-working spirit and perseverance, but not being so result-orientated.

 

[primetime]

I'll admit I felt like **** and had some horror dreams after last year's Super Bowl but I went to work the next day and had no issues. As with most hobbies, any negative feelings nowadays stemming from football are largely reflections of negative issues in my life more generally as opposed to frustrations with football in general. When the Patriots lost last year I even portrayed it to my wonderful wife as a miserable experience that made going to my boring job the next morning worse.

When I was younger I cared more. When they lost to the Giants in 2007-8, I was so, so mad.

That's the weird thing about Super Bowl Sunday. At least losing the AFCCG tomorrow, I'd get Monday off (as I did the last time they lost that game). With the Super Bowl, win or lose, gotta work the next day and very few peiple give a **** about the outcome. (Well, I'm a fed, so maybe this year I'll still be on unpaid furlough. Which would still suck for other reasons. But even so my job is better now than it was a year ago.)

And that's the lesson, nobody else gives a ****. Your friends, your colleagues. And they're right not to, it's just a ****ing game. Hell that's why I post here, a few people who give a **** and I can commiserate with. Even if I think most of you are ****ing nutjobs whose opinions are very wrong, I can commiserate with you. And some of you are great!

Also like... And this is the thing. None of us can affect the outcome of this game. It has nothing to do with us. We literally don't matter at all. We're pure spectators. It's not like we tried and lost. We just watched! Wby should we even care? We don't matter! And you know what? That should be freeing. Instead it's horrifying. And we post on embarrasingly stupid fan forums with true weirdos and psychos in order to try to make up for our powerlessness.

 

[edkk323]

Clearly you aren't a real fan because my **** grows bigger if they win

You forgot the moments your wee wee went backwards because you were so nervous.

 

[Hyped]

I dont care anymore...its a dam football game...doesnt change anything the day after....nothing at all.....after the SB win against the Falcons nothing will ever eclipse it...

Whatever.....Monday doesnt change.

After we won SB 51 with me in attendance....my wife and I had to hustle back to Dallas to catch a 7AM flight. The flight ended up being delayed all day until around 2PM local time. Normally, that would infuriate me to no end.....but not that day. I watched CNN showing clips of the superbowl over and over again while napping on the floor in the terminal. I was in pure bliss that day and nothing could get me down. That was a Monday that changed.

Side note: After dropping the rental car off at around 5AM we took a shuttle to the terminal with one other couple seated across from us decked out in Falcons gear....they looked like they were walking dead....I felt bad. And that ride to the terminal was a long and awkward one.....

 

[primetime]

You forgot the moments your wee wee went backwards because you were so nervous.

I like this implication that my **** even responds to outside stimulus anymore as opposed to just being some early to mid-30s yogurt slinging babymaker. I don't even mean that as a complaint, that's just how ****s seem to go after your 20s unless you're a pervert (and if you are, good for you*)

* depending on your perversion

 

[Quest4SevenHomie]

I am a passionate fan in the moment. Yet I no longer miss a day of work following a loss (2015 AFCCG), nor am I on cloud nine a few days after a big win. (SB 51 was amazing. Yet as each day went by following said game, I noticed I wasn't any less stressed about bills, my job, & family).

How do you react after a win or loss?

Each playoff and super bowl loss STILL has a reminiscent effect on me. It DOESN'T go away. Especially to that Papa John's douchenozzle, Peyton Manning.

Yes as others have mentioned, SB42 was the ABSOLUTE worst. It had a tremendous amount of impact on my mental health. I never moved on. Still haven't, to be honest. Life was just void.

I remember a classmate telling me something about how the NFL rigged that game by allowing Giants Sean O'Hara to hold onto (looked like a chokehold to me) the Patriots defender which gave Eli Manning the opportunity to throw the ball to Tyree. It was a gift to the Mara's. It made a better storyline to gift the Mara's than the at-time "cheating" Patriots (spygate).


The comeback against Atlanta was just amazing. It was literally a thriller. Absolutely breathtaking in the literal sense. So many people mocked and doubted the Patriots. The world laughed at our misfortune and misery. They labeled us cheaters and said things like "Haha, cheaters never prosper", "The Deflatriots are losing 28-3 because the their balls are deflated", "Patriots are losing because they can't spy anymore".

All hope was lost by half time...or so we thought. The most epic comeback of all time was about to unfold right in front of everyone's eyes. The haters and doubters were left speechless. Their jaws had dropped to the ground. Their eyes must be deceiving them because there was NO WAY the Patriots could comeback from a 25 point deficit. It must wasn't possible. Oh but it was. And it was glorious as I recall losing my voice for the rest of the week for all the shouting and screaming I had done from the sheer emotional shock of seeing the Edelman catch ruled a catch and James White's goal line TD call stand and the Patriots winning 34-28 in OT.

This one was it. We NEEDED this win. After years and years of losing to fluke plays, it was finally OUR TURN.

Of course, tragedy would occur once again when the Patriots went on to lose to the Eagles rematch. It was just insufferable having to see memes of Brady once again losing at the hands of the officials.

 

[edkk323]

I like this implication that my **** even responds to outside stimulus anymore as opposed to just being some early to mid-30s yogurt slinging babymaker. I don't even mean that as a complaint, that's just how ****s seem to go after your 20s unless you're a pervert (and if you are, good for you*)

* depending on your perversion

Hey! Stop being so result-orientated. You know what drives you. All that matters is the HEART.

 

[TB_Helmet]

I'll admit I felt like **** and had some horror dreams after last year's Super Bowl but I went to work the next day and had no issues. As with most hobbies, any negative feelings nowadays stemming from football are largely reflections of negative issues in my life more generally as opposed to frustrations with football in general. When the Patriots lost last year I even portrayed it to my wonderful wife as a miserable experience that made going to my boring job the next morning worse.

When I was younger I cared more. When they lost to the Giants in 2007-8, I was so, so mad.

That's the weird thing about Super Bowl Sunday. At least losing the AFCCG tomorrow, I'd get Monday off (as I did the last time they lost that game). With the Super Bowl, win or lose, gotta work the next day and very few peiple give a **** about the outcome. (Well, I'm a fed, so maybe this year I'll still be on unpaid furlough. Which would still suck for other reasons. But even so my job is better now than it was a year ago.)

And that's the lesson, nobody else gives a ****. Your friends, your colleagues. And they're right not to, it's just a ****ing game. Hell that's why I post here, a few people who give a **** and I can commiserate with. Even if I think most of you are ****ing nutjobs whose opinions are very wrong, I can commiserate with you. And some of you are great!

Also like... And this is the thing. None of us can affect the outcome of this game. It has nothing to do with us. We literally don't matter at all. We're pure spectators. It's not like we tried and lost. We just watched! Wby should we even care? We don't matter! And you know what? That should be freeing. Instead it's horrifying. And we post on embarrasingly stupid fan forums with true weirdos and psychos in order to try to make up for our powerlessness.

Good post man. Good luck with the job situation.

 

[supafly]

Simmons is a ****. Sooooo lame.

But TBH I cried after SBs 36 and 51, though only in my home... NEVER on the street.

My allergies may have made my eyes well up a bit after a certain 28-3 comeback SB recap on “Inside the NFL” where they show the behind the scenes footage.

Maybe.

 

[Jangles]

doesn’t bother me nearly as much as it used to

Although that could be general apathy towards the league as a whole. I’m pretty certain once Tom retires I’ll care even less.