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Quote:Acceptance. We see so many fewer threads now after loses. I think everyone is beyond caring right now

This.  

 

Fewer people are posting on the message board, the gameday thread has maybe 100 people watching it compared to years' past when you would have 300-400 people or more.  

 

The entire fanbase is apathetic.  

I reached apathy last year. I don't think I've focused and paid attention to an entire games since week 2. I used to watch and rewatched anything Jaguar related without fail, now I watch in the background

Quote:Where are you?


 

Quote:Where are you?



"The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with this Jaguar team. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief."



I'm at acceptance.........

Laughter, its the stage after acceptance only available to Jaguars fans who like icrecream with sprink1es!

I would describe myself as a nihilist jaguars fan at the moment.

Quote:I think im on stage 6:

 

"LOL"

this.

Quote:Where are you?



"The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with this Jaguar team. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief."



I'm at acceptance.........

 

I am on the 12 step program every Sunday... to my fridge...where I keep my moonshine.... 

Quote: What was the final straw for you in giving up being a Dolphins fan?


In my youth, the Dolphins were a model franchise, much like the Patriots became this century. In essence, the two franchises traded places.

It was the Ted ginn Jr. Pick.


That was it for me. I realized then that this team was lost and I didn't want to watch that anymore. Compounded by the fact that I had no ties to the city of Miami, and I was done.


I was a huge marino fan. Still am. And I loved watching Ricky Williams run. But I just couldn't watch that team anymore. Besides that one division championship when Brady was out the entire year, they have been mediocre or bad since I gave up on them. So I feel like I made the right choice.

Quote:It was the Ted ginn Jr. Pick.


That was it for me. I realized then that this team was lost and I didn't want to watch that anymore. Compounded by the fact that I had no ties to the city of Miami, and I was done.


I was a huge marino fan. Still am. And I loved watching Ricky Williams run. But I just couldn't watch that team anymore. Besides that one division championship when Brady was out the entire year, they have been mediocre or bad since I gave up on them. So I feel like I made the right choice.

 

  Passing on Patrick Willis turned out to be a huge mistake by the Dolphins in that draft.   

 

  I recall many other Dolphins fans being disturbed by the Ted Ginn Jr.  selection,   Some wanted Brady Quinn,  who didn't pan out.   But the pick of Ginn certainly symbolized how much the Dolphins Franchise declined from the Don Shula days.   Ginn is still in the NFL but that doesn't erase the mistake the Dolphins made.

 

  Dan Marino was very enjoyable to watch unless you were the fan of the other team.   His natural passing skills were amongst the best I've ever seen.

Quote: Passing on Patrick Willis turned out to be a huge mistake by the Dolphins in that draft.


I recall many other Dolphins fans being disturbed by the Ted Ginn Jr. selection, Some wanted Brady Quinn, who didn't pan out. But the pick of Ginn certainly symbolized how much the Dolphins Franchise declined from the Don Shula days. Ginn is still in the NFL but that doesn't erase the mistake the Dolphins made.


Dan Marino was very enjoyable to watch unless you were the fan of the other team. His natural passing skills were amongst the best I've ever seen.

You gotta remember that he also got his leg destroyed in the bcs championship game that year.


I kept giving the dolphin front office pass after pass. But wasting that pick just did it for me.


That summer I moved to fernandina beach and was convinced to buy season tickets. I've been a die hard ever since.


Imagine... If I would have been a season ticket holder in any other year, I may not have been such a hard core fan.


But that 2007 season was a magical time. It was a great year all around. Same year my wife and I decided to move in together.

Quote:I think im on stage 6:


"LOL"

Atleast it's not suicide.

Quote:I think im on stage 6:


"LOL"

I was about to say acceptance but this sums up my feelings better

Where does "bludgeoned into submission" fall in the spectrum?

Quote:Where does "bludgeoned into submission" fall in the spectrum?

 

I believe that puts you in the Rick Grimes category of acceptance, after meeting Negan and Lucille

Quote:I am on the 12 step program every Sunday... to my fridge...where I keep my moonshine....




Mmmmm........moonshine. My favorite is Howling Moon, only available here in the western North Carolina mountains.

(Acceptance. We see so many fewer threads now after loses. I think everyone is beyond caring right now)

 

 

 

Since most are trash anyway, this is a good thing

Denial.

 

Constant denial.

Quote:I believe that puts you in the Rick Grimes category of acceptance, after meeting Negan and Lucille

Sigh.  I would appreciate that a lot more if I ever watched/read Walking Dead.

Bullseye it has indeed been quite a year...   you are no longer observing

 

Thanks for those threads and happy holidays.

The Five Stages of Gus