I agree with you DB but for some on here, and most of us full time posters know who they are, they are being very serious in how much they hate the team and pretty much everything it does. Tone doesn't carry over text so some times it can be very hard to tell who's playing and who truly is convinced that the sky is falling and we're all standing under it. Add to that we seemed to have gotten a lot of new people out of no where who only seem to have shown up to tell us how much everything sucks and the negativity around here has started to out weight anything even remotely positive. I mean we fire OB and rather than celebrating many almost immediately pivoted to talking about the evils of Easterby. To the point some almost seem to be sorry OB was gone and mad "Easterby got him fired". I would have thought that would be cause to build statues of the guy. I will grant you it is hard to get excited when just as you have any kind of hope your franchise QB, that supposedly you locked down like a good little team, turns around and wants traded before the ink is dry but what can you do.
Some of us are fascinated and entertained by watching the sausage being made and others just want breakfast. Me I find the process interesting but it does get old hearing most everyone else screaming for their breakfast and how much the chef sucks because its not out yet.
Yeah, I think social media amplifies things. We post our thoughts on this page, might even be a few minutes of our time, but then it sits there for an eternity representing our thoughts in that small moment of time.
I learned many years ago about the utter pointlessness of 'flame wars' and really just avoid all of that since then.
I'm a sarcastic sort of guy, and sarcasm is often hard to convey in written form. Which is why I try to keep it obviously light-hearted, and even add visual clues to help reveal my own intent.
I enjoy chatting with y'all over the years, but even then, I took a couple of years off, just stopping by now and then. My interest in this franchise at this point comes from just liking pro football in general and the on-going virtual (and occasionally real world) friendships that I've made in this forum.
I like watching the being sausage made. But that doesn't mean I'm going to eat it. Gives me indigestion & heartburn, the same as the Texans 2020 season! lol
I just think it’s “in vogue” to complain about the Texans for a lot of people, fans included. I mean right now theres a fan from the NY Jets on this MB talking smack about the Texans....think about that. The NY Jets bro. a team that hasn’t finish above .500 and Been to the playoffs since Chad Pennington like 7-8 years ago.
I just don’t feed into it. Every league has to have a whipping boy every year & the Texans are this year’s candidate. The next scandal will take them off the hook.
I hear ya', man. I've never been an 'in vogue' person. I've been in this forum since 2004, through the ups and downs of this franchise, so whatever the national media wants to say, I don't care much for it.
The Texans will probably have two kinds of fans in the near future: those that are diehard football fans (majority of this board) that can't help themselves but pay attention, and then the casual fans that don't watch when they suck. And out of those diehards, I think most of us realize that we are going to have to embrace the suck for a while. It is part of an inevitable cycle for some teams.
That said, there is a certain bush league vibe about Cal McNair that will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years. I'll be here with most of y'all, for better or for worse.
Yep. Einstein said failure is just success in progress. hope and perseverance are positive force fields and are often found in the most successful people. Just look at many of our wounded warriors.
Great quote. I guess where I'd differ from Einstein's point is that we have absolutely no control over the process and results. We are merely, always & forever, spectators. I doubt that dude ever cared about the outcome of any sporting event in his entire life.
It does not matter how much we believe in, ridicule, have faith, lose faith, etc., about this franchise. Absolutely nothing we do, or will do, will even make a ripple on the Texans pond.
This franchise is no different - for me, at least - than being a fan of Star Wars or Metallica (or pick your entertainment). It's merely an entertainment diversion. Maybe those things are more to other people, and I get that. I used to be young(er) and would allow my emotions to be influenced by the outcome of Oilers games. At least until 35-3 taught me a valuable life lesson. I got pissed when Metallica released an album I didn't like. Never cared for the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi. Ahhh, the folly of youth! lol
But not so much these days. It's just a fun ride, but that's all it is. Outside of the forum and a few YouTube channels, I don't spend much time thinking about the Houston Texans.
So my own bellyaching, critical analysis, ridicule, and even excitement, on these pages should not be indicative of my mental being in the real world. I don't let any of this stuff be anything more to me than a diversion, something to entertain my free time, and really nothing more to it than that. I'd honestly tell anyone to really evaluate their lives if any of this stuff has any deeper meaning to them than what it really is in the end: just entertainment.