I'm not quite as vociferous about it as Kodiak, but I was thinking about it last night before the game.

It's really all about 1999, and I've decided 20 years is enough for a grudge. Other grudges are edging it out for competition, and I can only bear so much. In many ways, the Tacks have followed a track similar to our own - getting close, but not quite there, and enduring humiliating seasons trying and failing to find that elusive franchise QB. They swung and whiffed on Mariotta and Locker the same way we swung and missed on Bortles and Gabbert. They've built good defenses only to squander them on bad teams. We both had to put up with a bunch of Mularkey, too.

And here's what's left from 1999, aside from cities and fans, for both teams: Nothing. The owners, players, coaches are all gone. The stadiums are rebuilt. Their underrated QB from 1999 is dead, ours acheived not quite HOF but at least is still with us. Fred and Eddie are both respected elders of the NFL community. Bad boy Albert Haynesworth flamed out. Jeff Fisher (Lord Mullet) too, to the point where I'm not sure he'd get a job in the NFL. Coughlin has fallen from complete reverence due to being just as weird now as he was then.

Our AFCS brothers Sammy, 'chop, and Carrbombed (give him back his name already!) are some of the coolest posters on the board. I'm officially letting this grudge go, y'all, but I'll keep the friendly ribbing going.

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