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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
The problem being one you're missing, which is that you are watching a game for the sake of entertainment and can't seem to actually enjoy yourself even in a win.
I will never understand the type of sports fan that is only in it for the wins, let alone those in it for the right kind of wins at the right time where anything less than the biggest prize is unenjoyable. Why do you guys do it? What's the point? Is there some imagined social importance to saying you're a Flames fan even when a playoff birth or winning a round wouldn't bring you any joy? Can you honestly say you even like hockey or the Flames if that's the case? You think putting on a jersey and having an opinion makes you a fan?
These same people talk about "realism" or how some random negative opinion is "correct" because it's negative. The only dose of realism here is the fact that if last night's win brought you no joy and no hope, you need a different hobby because you're wasting your life.
The reason the previously mentioned poster got "piled on" is because most people here are fans of the team, enjoy winning, and enjoy hockey. Hockey is entertaining, and when your favourite team wins? It's a nice little injection of positivity in your day.
You ever have an acquaintance that is constantly negative, a total pessimist? Some fun to be around, right? If negative people want to inject their own negativity into everything around them and pretend they're right to make them feel a little better about wallowing in their own inability to enjoy the parts of their life that are strictly there to increase their enjoyment, have at it. Just don't expect warm receptions from people who are capable of having a good time.
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I do enjoy watching hockey, including Flames games, but I enjoy it purely because of the entertainment value of the game itself. I don't get enjoyment via excitement of this team having the potential to do some damage moving forward, so my excitement is limited. Not sure why this is so hard to understand?
I don't expect the team I cheer for to be in contention every season; I'm not unrealistic, but when the team you cheer for has been average or below average for the last THIRTY years? It gets tiresome...for me at least. And that poster. And many, many others. What I'm saying is I get his frustration, and so do many others, but everyone just jumped down his throat for an opinion that was quite true.