Thursday, January 18, 2007
Why fans seem to care more
Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo on New York City’s best sports talk radio station 66WFAN often says that fans care more than players. A team’s players are able to recover from seemingly tragic endings to seasons faster. Fans crushed hopes hangovers last longer.
Here is an example of how this phenomen works from Chicago Tribune reporter John Mullin. Followed by a terrific explanation of part of the why from Chicago Bears defensive end Alex Brown...
{excerpted from the Chicago Tribune}
”Bears players have admitted frustration at times over the doubters and questioners of their play and results this season. The problem is in part that few of them are intimately familiar with the history of disappointment that has beset Chicago fans, making them slow to trust or believe even in the teams they desperately want to do well.
But the psychic fan damage done by losses in NFC Championship games like 1988 or flops in divisional playoffs the previous two times Bears teams got there are difficult for some to understand.
"I guess I just don't think like that," defensive end Alex Brown said. "I don't think last year is going to affect this year or what happened 20 years ago is going to affect this year. I don't think that because the last time the Bears were in the NFC championship this [loss] happened, that it's going to happen this time. I don't think like that. We're completely different people even from last year. We have a lot of the same people but it's a completely different mindset."
Who says University Florida football educa-mah-cations don’t yield results?
See this link for the whole article Chicago Tribune on Bears football
See this link Congress focusing on only the most important issues
Here is an example of how this phenomen works from Chicago Tribune reporter John Mullin. Followed by a terrific explanation of part of the why from Chicago Bears defensive end Alex Brown...
{excerpted from the Chicago Tribune}
”Bears players have admitted frustration at times over the doubters and questioners of their play and results this season. The problem is in part that few of them are intimately familiar with the history of disappointment that has beset Chicago fans, making them slow to trust or believe even in the teams they desperately want to do well.
But the psychic fan damage done by losses in NFC Championship games like 1988 or flops in divisional playoffs the previous two times Bears teams got there are difficult for some to understand.
"I guess I just don't think like that," defensive end Alex Brown said. "I don't think last year is going to affect this year or what happened 20 years ago is going to affect this year. I don't think that because the last time the Bears were in the NFC championship this [loss] happened, that it's going to happen this time. I don't think like that. We're completely different people even from last year. We have a lot of the same people but it's a completely different mindset."
Who says University Florida football educa-mah-cations don’t yield results?
See this link for the whole article Chicago Tribune on Bears football
See this link Congress focusing on only the most important issues
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Comments:
Aar - your link to the congress article is broken - it's got your blogger address stuck in there somehow before the actual link. Hi, btw. Moved the blog. Still going to maintain the website at some point, but no more journaling there.
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Yes, sorry about that with the link.
It's fixed.
Strange really. I feel like sometimes Blogger wants one to put the http://address inside of quotes " " and other times or possibly with other particular sites? it doesn't want the quotes " " around it.
I don't understand, but the link is re-enabled.
I was being a bit facetious. Congress is doing useless shit. Though, I am enthused about many of the things the House has done especially raising the minimum wage and lowering the interest rate on student loans. See this for quick summary I am not so sure how much, if any, of what they pumped out gets through the Senate. {Bush has veto, too, should he choose to wield it, and then surely they would struggle to override his will in the Senate.}
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Yes, sorry about that with the link.
It's fixed.
Strange really. I feel like sometimes Blogger wants one to put the http://address inside of quotes " " and other times or possibly with other particular sites? it doesn't want the quotes " " around it.
I don't understand, but the link is re-enabled.
I was being a bit facetious. Congress is doing useless shit. Though, I am enthused about many of the things the House has done especially raising the minimum wage and lowering the interest rate on student loans. See this for quick summary I am not so sure how much, if any, of what they pumped out gets through the Senate. {Bush has veto, too, should he choose to wield it, and then surely they would struggle to override his will in the Senate.}
