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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
What the hell are you on about? We've all cheered for the Flames. Only the Flames. Through total mediocrity, we're not out here bandwagoning the Avs or the Lightning.
We've cheered plenty for the same mediocrity you've cheered for. Don't act like we're inferior fans for not thinking the status quo is the only option.
Know what's actually lame?
Preferring to lose to your deepest rival over preferring a chance to beat your deepest rival because you think a few down years are embarassing or something. Pro sports all have ebbs and flows. Teams trying so hard to avoid the ebbs that they never get the flows is less fun. Period. It's not cheering for losses. It's not being fairweather fans. It's not being frontrunners. It's just the reality of North American pro sports. Wanting to cheer for your own team to have a moment of glory once in your lifetime isn't lame. Cheering for a team for the sole sake of mindlessly cheering for the team is lame.
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I don’t know what to tell you other than the fact that, if you’ve been paying attention to the NHL over the last 20 years, tanking doesn’t magically erase the possibility of losing to your deepest rival. Ask Florida. We had a chance this time, we blew it, sucks but that’s hockey.
Nobody “prefers” to lose to Edmonton over having the chance to beat them, it’s just idiotic to think tanking some how makes that possibility go away. If that’s what you think, you don’t understand the game and you haven’t been paying attention.
As I said, sometimes teams have to rebuild, it is what it is. But tanking is something different. We all want the Flames to have a chance at glory, but if that’s all you care about, so much so that you would cheer for losses and hope the team throws multiple seasons trying to get “the one” player they need, you might as well just cheer for team that has already done it. Because it’s not a lock, and you obviously don’t appreciate watching the game itself as much as you want to say you cheer for the champ, so just pick a team that is already built the way you want and go cheer for them. No shame in it, you’ll be happier, you get what you want the easy way. Simple stuff.