Sunday's home opener, in which the Tampa Bay Buccaneers decimated the Dallas Cowboys 19-3, was one of those games that can make fans feel a twinge of pain in their gut.
Even the non-followers can imagine the embarrassment of having to call a major league sports franchise their team when all that the players and staff could muster in the first game of the season was a lousy field goal. It's the NFL equivalent of a little league soccer team letting a shutout underdog score a goal even if they'd accidentally scored itNow just imagine how the diehard fans feel in the shadow of such an embarrassing performance.
The problem is that the Cowboys' fan base doesn't experience these stages one at a time during a season. They experience them in an assortment of orders and over and over again. It's like grieving the loss of a loved one whose corpse keeps reanimating and dying again and again. Trick plays work out one of two ways: spectacularly well or bad enough to merit anxiety medication. They scream of desperation and depression. You might as well have a Nirvana tribute band sing the National Anthem.Don't ask a question to which you don't wanna hear the answer. You're not helping anyone, least of all yourself. All you're doing is giving yourself more reasons to eat a whole bowl of Rotel queso while staring at a blank wall after the game.
This feeling usually creeps up in the late third or early fourth quarter when the refs' flags get thrown like stack of plates at a Greek wedding. Make sure the discontentment is moving toward acceptance and not back toward anger, or you'll just end up in another emotional loop. There's a reason refs throw flags. At some point, one team will need something with which to dab their crying eyes and blow their noses.
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