Congrats Fishy

[tykurez]

If you’re even still alive? #vikings

 

[Fishy]

Thank you.

For one more week, I’m alive.

I cannot imagine what fresh hell next week will bring to balance this out.

 

[Deepster]

Thank you.

For one more week, I’m alive.

I cannot imagine what fresh hell next week will bring to balance this out.

As a Jets fan, don’t let your guard down for a second. They’re looking to tear your heart out.

 

[Fishy]

As a Jets fan, don’t let your guard down for a second. They’re looking to tear your heart out.

Everything with the Vikings turns on one simple phrase....

During any particular game or season, when I think to myself, “This could finally happen...”, everything goes to hell.

I thought that at halftime. Things went to hell. Things will go to hell again.

And if they don’t go to hell next week, Belichick is out there somewhere...

 

[jibsey]

That was one helluva game.

 

[Dove]

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Everything with the Vikings turns on one simple phrase....

During any particular game or season, when I think to myself, “This could finally happen...”, everything goes to hell.

I thought that at halftime. Things went to hell. Things will go to hell again.

And if they don’t go to hell next week, Belichick is out there somewhere...

By 2004, I was a tapped out 40 year Red Sox fan and could not bring myself to watch. When the Yankees led 3-0 in the ALCS, I comforted myself for not caring. I watched each of their 4 consecutive victories starting no earlier than the 7th inning. I recall nothing of the World Series and believe I watched very little. When the Red Sox won finally won, it was profoundly anticlimactic.

2 years later, a dear friend gave me a season recap DVD that he'd picked up for a couple bucks at some Boston metro bargain outlet. It took me 4 more years to watch it and the whole time I was afraid of how it would turn out. Baseball season starts later and later in October every year.
I wish better for you.
Did you at least freeze last night's pizza?

 

[Deepster]

By 2004, I was a tapped out 40 year Red Sox fan and could not bring myself to watch. When the Yankees led 3-0 in the ALCS, I comforted myself for not caring. I watched each of their 4 consecutive victories starting no earlier than the 7th inning. I recall nothing of the World Series and believe I watched very little. When the Red Sox won finally won, it was profoundly anticlimactic.

2 years later, a dear friend gave me a season recap DVD that he'd picked up for a couple bucks at some Boston metro bargain outlet. It took me 4 more years to watch it and the whole time I was afraid of how it would turn out. Baseball season starts later and later in October every year.
I wish better for you.
Did you at least freeze last night's pizza?

So, 6 years after they won, you were afraid it was a lie and the DVD would prove otherwise?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

So, 6 years after they won, you were afraid it was a lie and the DVD would prove otherwise?

Half the time I watch Hagler-Leonard I think it's going to get called for Marvin.

Should I have written "literally" so you'd know it wasn't?

 

[Hoophound]

So, 6 years after they won, you were afraid it was a lie and the DVD would prove otherwise?

That's normal. I still get nervous watching the 99' title game.

 

[Deepster]

That's normal. I still get nervous watching the 99' title game.

That’s just dumb. I don’t play along with that over dramatic nonsense.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

That’s just dumb. I don’t play along with that over dramatic nonsense.

I'm the family member who visits my mother's grave site near a police substation originally established after gun violence off Park Street in Hartford. When it comes to over dramatic nonsense, different strokes for different folks.

 

[Deepster]

I'm the family member who visits my mother's grave site near a police substation originally established after gun violence off Park Street in Hartford. When it comes to over dramatic nonsense, different strokes for different folks.

So, you get nervous watching a game you’ve know the actual outcome of for 18 years and you then bring visiting your moms grave into the discussion. Sounds fine.

 

[Hoophound]

Its just a subconscious thing. For whatever reason, I feel anxious rewatching big games. Pretty sure it is partially biological too. I can't help it.

I get a little sick watching live games, especially big games. My face gets hot, mouth dry and eventually I get a bad headache.

 

[HooperScooper]

Its just a subconscious thing. For whatever reason, I feel anxious rewatching big games. Pretty sure it is partially biological too. I can't help it.

I get a little sick watching live games, especially big games. My face gets hot, mouth dry and eventually I get a bad headache.

Doesn't sound pleasant. I think I'd pick something else to occupy my free time if that happened to me.

 

[Deepster]

Its just a subconscious thing. For whatever reason, I feel anxious rewatching big games. Pretty sure it is partially biological too. I can't help it.

I get a little sick watching live games, especially big games. My face gets hot, mouth dry and eventually I get a bad headache.

Do you think that makes you a super Fan?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Its just a subconscious thing. For whatever reason, I feel anxious rewatching big games. Pretty sure it is partially biological too. I can't help it.

I get a little sick watching live games, especially big games. My face gets hot, mouth dry and eventually I get a bad headache.

Things of this sort are not at all uncommon with human beings. That's why I self-effacingly shared my own pecadillo after reading the OP with its own anxious take on, "if you think it affects the mojo..."

Here we've uncovered some illogical & irrational time-distorted and reality-compromised stuff that can't mount a defense against the too literal, the humorless, the uncomprehending, the judgmental, or the sarcastic mind, which sometimes shows up in a single person who has elsewhere displayed the kinds of distortions explored by behavioral psychologists. Of course some people dismiss those social scientists as charlatans. Who's to say?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

So, you get nervous watching a game you’ve know the actual outcome of for 18 years and you then bring visiting your moms grave into the discussion. Sounds fine.

Thank you.

 

[Hoophound]

Do you think that makes you a super Fan?

No. I'd say it makes me a person that gets some sort of stress response from close games that makes me feel crappy.

 

[Adios]

Weather forecast for Sunday is 50s in Philly. I am hoping Case Keenum gets frozen. Should be below 50 by game time.

Enjoy the game, Fishy. Might as well get a ticket to the game.