If you really want to know why I think of a sunshine club, read on.
Personnaly I started considering some small set (not all) of the optimists to be in some sort of "sunshine club" last year in a conversation in a lenghty thread. It was shortly after the three game win streak that included wins over two very bad teams. I didn't appreciate being talked down to because I "couldn't see the rightness" of the team finishing with eleven, maybe even twelve wins. I was struck that a select group of posters seemed to believe with a religious fervor and just wanted to enlighten my poor, ignorant soul. As now, I was told I was encumbered by opinions based on past Texans performance. If I could just believe in someone else's vision I too could be right.
I was even given proof by way of a list of the remaining schedule with little Ws by most of the team names! Somehow I still doubted.
Some optimists can make persuasive, factual arguments. The sunshine club to me are those that know the Texans are on the upswing because they are the hometown team, and as such every action can, and must be, spun as being right and further proof the Texans have multiple Super Bowl wins lined up in the near future.
The sunshine club frequently use arguments that boil down to circular logic: the Texans are building the right way; it is the right way because that is how the Texans are building.
My sunshine club has just a handful of members - a lot of the people complaining about the term aren't even on my list. I don't mind seeing opinions contrary to mine - usually
Sometimes they may even change my mind. Implying I'm wrong because I haven't seen the light isn't a big winner with me though.
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More succinctly, I consider the sunshine club those who can't distinguish between their own
beliefs and
knowledge, and therefore consider opposing ideas ignorance.
Man, I liked you better when you'd post brief, cryptic messages on here that I'd spend half-a-day looking up the meaning of words and the little cultural nuances that you used to make yor points. I am glad you took the time to write out specifically what you feel, which leads me to this:
Nobody has to convince you of anything. Likewise, you don't have to convince anybody of anything. I think you've taken things a bit personally or maybe way too seriously, as if you're being attacked or not being understood better. Nobody can take anything from you or force you to see things their way.
Timeline of my thinking on Kubiak and the team: I personally started off thinking the hiring of Kubiak was going to mean fast success. When it slowed down to a crawl, at the first of last season, I was tired of the slow pace he had established. Even during the wins vs. Cincy and Detroit (check my posts) I was grumpy and virtually impossible to please--Those two wins did nothing for me. Nada. But the second half of the season is being written off by the rain cloud club. Those wins were, IMO, a shift in this team's persona.
I loved the off-season even more, basically because they didn't reach for the next Todd Wade or Ahman Green and then shove it down our throats like it was the biggest and bestest signing of all time and would cure our ills forever and ever. This off-season, and the draft, was very strategic and very disciplined. There is a sense of real momentum, for a change. Not the trivial, pseduo-momentum we are accustomed to: A win in the last game of a season.
But it makes no difference to you guys. I've personally gone from being too trustworthy too soon, to thinking Kubiak was going down with the ship, to now having what I feel is a more balanced view of where things are. I think a lot of you guys have not come out of your funk, and there's one guy in particular who can only gripe and scream that the sky is falling all the time.
And I don't think it's a balanced view for a lot of you to sit here and piss and moan about bad things that haven't happened yet. You do it under the disguise of being "the concerned fan" who just "wants what's best for the team," but you rain cloud guys are trying just as hard to ram your own point(s) down people's throats. It's a give-and-take relationship on opposing views, isn't it? Like I said before: Message boarders tend to pick a stance and they defend it like it's the Alamo all over again.
This is a place for the expression of ideas, and people can pick those ideas up and examine them and comment on them, or they can leave them on the floor and refuse to pick them up.
At the end of the day, makes no matter what any of us "think"...because their are wealthy, powerful people in the Texans office who make decisions with a decidedly different approach than probably any of us would employ ourselves.
We're just here to talk about things. I stated way back earlier in this thread that I feared this would turn into the dreaded "fan, not a fan" debate. Looks like I get
some things right
some of the times.
I enjoy your posts, and you've helped me several times to better express what I was thinking. I think this board has quality posters all the way around, even if I don't get along with some of them. Momma always said "Son, you're gonna' have to face the fact that you can't make everybody like you. Some people are gonna' dislike you just because they want to dislike you." Of course, my mom was Eva Braun, so what do I know?
There ARE signs that this defense is going to improve: Our dline, especially TJ and Okoye, are going to be less reactionary and more up-the-field and shooting gaps like they should have been all along. And, we now see that Reeves says the 10-yard cushion by DBs will not be the norm anymore. Whether that fleshes itself out on the field or not, is yet to be seen, but you can see the commitment is there to NOT do what we had been doing under RS.
Off-topic: Love the movie quotes, Kaiser!
