One way to look at it is the way Pirates fans have viewed individual baseball games for much of the last 20 seasons, prior to 2013. That is, as individual contests that can be interesting and entertaining in and of themselves, and ones that could be very satisfying for you should your team win it. The fact that there may be little or no hope for post-season gold shouldn't diminish your enjoyment or the entertainment value of that particular game.
Of course, it doesn't seem to be working that way here in Pittsburgh, where Steelers fans have gotten so spoiled with success over the years that the idea of an ordinary-to-lousy season is unacceptable. I am still astounded that an actual WIN, as occurred last week over the Bills, generated so little, in fact, absolutley ZERO buzz and conversation among the Steelers so-called faithful (see http://grandstander.blogspot.com/2013/11/hey-steelers-fans-how-deep-is-your-love.html ).
As for today, the Lions come in at 6-3 and in first place in their division, and they bring to Heinz Field perhaps the very best wide receiver in football today, Calvin Johnson.
I, for one, am looking forward to this game, to watching Johnson play, to see how the Steelers might contain (or try to contain) him, and to see if they can, temporarily at least, throw a monkey wrench into the Lions march to the play-offs. And wouldn't it be nice to hang a loss on Lions coach Jim Schwartz, who seems to be a semi-berserk, unlikable kind of guy?
If I was betting, I wouldn't go with the Steelers, but that doesn't mean I won't be rooting for them today just as much as if they were undefeated and on the way to the Playoffs.
No comments:
Post a Comment