Liar, Liar
I felt like this deserved a post.
It happens every year. It's been happening since 1939. Hyped anticipation leading to ultimate let down. Whether it's sooner or later it's always sometime. I've never seen a group of people fill all their hopes with such a sure let down. The resiliency to failure is uncanny. The false hope given by outsiders can only be seen as collusion w/ the organization in order to generate revenue.
This is the world of Aggie football. Every stinkin' year we're picked as the sleeper, the team that is picked to surprise everyone and win our conference, maybe even have a shot at the national title. We're suppossed to have had a killer recruiting class, or a bunch of returning starters, or an improved quarterback...but all of those things are forward looking phenomena. They never manifest themselves. Every year we're picked to do something much greater than we're capable of. If people were more realistic about the situation then I don't think this would bug me so much. If the analysts would just come out and say we have a mediocre team that isn't capable of beating Texas, or stopping Adrian Peterson, or playing defense against Tech, then I wouldn't go into the season w/ such high hopes. But no, they say we have the POTENTIAL to do all of this. Potential doesn't get anyone anywhere.
I'm bitter.
posted by Jeff @ 4:47 PM
6 Comments:
aggie football is emotionally exhausting...
i gave it up long ago.
alwyas assume we will go down in burning flames. but little flames, more like smoldering, because you don't recognize it at first, but it will come... oh, it will come.
two percenters!!! where's your blind, uninformed faith?? Where!?!?
Heh... yeah, I don't really want to think about football for a while. That game last Saturday was such a letdown.
at least you didn't travel to clemson to watch them lose and be filled with utter shame in a sea of orange...you didn't, right? i watched the game in washington, georgia with a bunch of georgia fans whose team actually wins games. must be nice to be them.
supporting a sports team is always a draining experience. When england plays in a football tournament (and that's proper football, not the sissy american variety haha) the whole country goes nuts in anticipation that they might actually win, but when they lose the country goes into a state of mourning, and everyone calls for the manager to resign....every time.
Everywhere you put "aggie" you could put "Auburn" and know that not only can I sympathize with you, I empathize more than you know...the biggest difference is that those predictions come true about once per decade (1983, 1994 & 2004) so we get this grand moment of glory followed by 9 years of, "Why can't we stay at that level?"
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