Hello all. Been a while.

There has to be a psychological clynical term for the way I feel about this team. Its almost like I really , really do want them to win but since I know more often than not they wont, I want them to lose and lose painfully.

The opener aginst the Ravens I was at a memorial golf scramble for one of my ol' buds. Me and all my friends have been doing it since 2001 and it is usually done the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. It was bumped back a week for Sunday week #1 of the NFL season. Initially, we were all even kinda bummed about the scheduling conflict at the local golf course but we all went ahead anyway and had a great time. I had a radio in my cart and as the Ravens started sticking it to the Bungs, laughing, I turned the game off, downed a beer and had one of the best days Ive had all summer. Later, at the bar that sponsered the scramble, I heard the final. I didnt give a damn. In fact I was disappointed that it wasnt worse. I dont give a sh!t anymore.

"There has to be a psychological clinical term for the way I feel about this team."

One possibility might be extreme ambiguity. A better one is probably compensation. From Wikipedia:

"In psychology, compensation is a strategy whereby one covers up, consciously or unconsciously, weaknesses, frustrations, desires, feelings of inadequacy or incompetence in one life area through the gratification or (drive towards) excellence in another area."

Now, in the way of recommended therapy, let me ask you something. Do you have ready access to any psychotropic drugs in your line of work? If yes, don't forget to share with your MBS brethren.

-psychostats

I think those are just fancy ways of saying the man came to his senses. The only rational thing to do is stop caring about a team that has not cared in the alst 15 plus years.


Good for you man!!

Ditto that for me med.

I want them to get pounded every week this year. I don't know if they will or not, but I want it to happen. Every day this week I hear about how terrible Al Davis is. That team was in the Super Bowl a few years ago for crying out loud!

The Bengals are the worst run organization in the NFL by a mile. This Benson signing confirms that.

I wrote on my Facebook today.... I hope they lose every game this year. I give up. 20 years packed with plenty of chances....

I know what you mean Med. Bengals Sundays are very different for me this year. I don't even get upset anymore. My wife noted that I was unexpectedly very calm after the Cleveland loss.

I have weathered the 90s and I still cared a lot. Why is this year different? Marvin has had more success than anybody since Wyche, but I am sure he is a bad coach.

I will admit I was wrong, we should hyave taken this Skins offer (which by the way was NOT 2 1st Rd picks, it was one 1st and a conditional that Chad would have never met this year).

There are so many major holes on this roster, despite some very talented football players. TJ, Chad, Carson, Whitworth, JJ, Leon Hall (getting better), Rivers, Ndukwe.

We need in this order:

1. A new C -the best one should be available early in the 2nd
2. A new OT - my vote for next year's 1st rounder
3. A new DT
4. A new DT
5. A new RB

I pray Chad turns it on late, so we can trade him and re-sign TJ

There are 10 types of people in this world, those who undertsand binary, and those who do not.

Man,
Besides being at the Giants game, and seeing how that finished, I have not watched or listened to one minute of the season. We aren't good enough to appear on the NFL network replay.

Enter Henry and Benson this week. Good thing they are on the road. The line (spread) is laughable. Either this will light a spark, or will will be a utter disaster.

The debate should be fun.

Kudos to New Jersey's Don Bosco Prep, defeating De La Salle on the West Coast.

Old UCLA roommate Troy Polamalu picked off one from his safety spot to nip a potential fourth-quarter winning drive with a 26-yard return in the first game.. ~Misinformed Hobson

"But every decision made in this building is ultimately his decision.

"Kudos to New Jersey's Don Bosco Prep, defeating De La Salle on the West Coast."


I've actually seen De La Salle play out here about 4 or 5 years ago. They had a 10 year streak where they DIDN'T LOSE A GAME. So, I drive into the parking lot where the parking fee is something like $2.00 (it would have been $5 in Ohio).....and I'm thinking there won't be a parking space to be had or park in the mud--BS. The parking lot was half empty. So I figure that this is California--these people car pooled or something.

You would have thought that their games would have been sold out and not a ticket to be found like Ohio? LMAO--50-100 fans were there @ the game total. DLS were playing a team that was 5-0. They were 6-0. De La Salle is a huge school too. You would think that DLS' stands would look something like Welcome Stadium or even close to Lakota West's stands. We go--and it looks more like West Milton's stands. And those stands are a 1/4 full. The visiting stands looks like a t-ball park's stands--about 5 tiered high and about 3 people sitting in the stands.

It was a joke. And there are kids on these teams getting recruited by major programs like USC, California, and Notre Dame. Almost every kid starting is getting recruited by D-1A Programs--and NOBODY'S THERE WATCHING. It's a total and complete joke. Nobody cares. It's nothing like the "Friday Night Lights" reality that you get in Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

In fact, my girlfriend and I were watching Friday Night Lights when it first came out. She says something like--HS Football is nothing like this, is it? As I was sitting there nodding my head in approval of the movie's happenings, I said to her--that's funny, I thought this movie was based on a true story in Texas or Ohio.







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