So if they don't make it, do you follow the playoffs, how do you kill time

[CaptainCrunch]

My off season started last night with about 10 minutes left to go in the game.

I opened up my playbook for this season, and started to mess around with some formations.

I added a unbalanced line short yardage package, took out my I set and replaced it with a balanced split backfield and started to add an option package.

It was the most productive I've been. My concern is that I don't have to have this done til the first week of June.

The other thing is that I can start going to the gym after work instead of on the way to work.

[wileecoyote]

I'm going to reserve my energies so that I can approach the upcoming Stampeders season in a dispassionate way. Fooled me twice in the last 2 Grey Cups. not getting too emotionally invested, just like with the Flames.

[soulchoice]

Ill watch the playoffs(Vegas, Nashville and the Leafs), as well as the NBA. Then when that is all done, Ill turn my attention to the MLB and anxiously await football(NFL).

[JohnnyB]

Will be cheering on Crosby and the Pens, just like most of the last decade.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by GirlySports

Is Fandom Really Worth It?

Interesting:

There’s a lot of losing in sports. Only one team can win at a time, and only one champion escapes the season without tears.

Rival fans’ treatment of one another is hardly more reassuring. A recent neuroimaging study found that fans experienced greater pleasure when watching a rival team fail, as opposed to non-rivals.

Fans in another study reported feeling schadenfreude when reading about the injury of a rival team’s player, and gluckschmerz (sadness at others’ good fortune) when later reading about the player’s unexpectedly speedy recovery.

[nickk382]

Teams I'll be rooting for are Nashville, Columbus, and Florida.

[The Familia]

I’ll cheer for Philadelphia from afar. Won’t be going out if my way to watch any hockey. Counting down until the CFL seasons starts.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by troutman

Interesting:

Seems like being a fan is worth it, just not for your own team's success as much as enjoying the failure of your rivals. I guess us Flames fans shouldn't feel so bad about continued mediocrity when we're leading the league in being able to revel in the failure of a rival.

[doctajones428]

Go Pittsburgh, Philly and whoever plays against Anaheim/Winnipeg

[CroFlames]

Originally Posted by troutman

Interesting:

I sure have been feeling a lot of this this season. It actually annoys me a team like the Bruins can go from Cup champion, competitive for another few years, retool on the fly, and be a Cup favorite 6 or 7 years later. Not fair!

I've been suffering since 1995 with a brief respite in 2004. Of course, the NHL saw fit to cancel 2005 and the momentum from 2004 was lost. Good times.

[St. Pats]

Raptors might do something in the playoffs this year. Still lots of other sports out there to very quickly make you forget about the Flames.

[DeluxeMoustache]

^ So for some there is one sport that sits above them all. When you grow up with it, living and breathing and playing, other sports pale in comparison.

Me, I can watch pretty much any sport. And know for whom I cheer. But displace hockey? Not bloody likely. (Said in that not bloody lack- lehhh kind of way)

Basketball? Counting to 100 in 2 point increments. Given better alternatives, pass. I can watch the last few minutes of games, and some playoffs when there is a storyline, but generally? Meh.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

Will be cheering on Crosby and the Pens, just like most of the last decade.

It's been nice to have that plan B for the last decade

[dissentowner]

Wtf is with cheering for Vegas? A division rival who got to poach the league and has instant success while we toil in mediocrity yet again. F that group, I hope they get swept in 4 games. I hope the Sharks do too. And the Ducks. And the Kings. I know that is not all possible but I want to see it anyhow dammit. Will probably cheer for Toronto.

[krynski]

it's coming up on gym season...

[transplant99]

Fans in another study reported feeling schadenfreude when reading about the injury of a rival team’s player, and gluckschmerz (sadness at others’ good fortune) when later reading about the player’s unexpectedly speedy recovery.

I learned something new today....and what a great word it is.

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

kind of way)

Basketball? Counting to 100 in 2 point increments. .

Flames Hockey: Counting to 1 in 1 point increments.

[minnow]

Leaf fan in the house, so, there's that. May root for Vegas, but I don't know yet. We'll see if they can woo me. Otherwise, along about September, I'll be getting antsy for real hockey.

[thefoss1957]

I work nights, so, watching playoffs would take a special effort, lacking a team that I am compelled to follow. Past years, I would DVR the Blackhawks and watch the 1st two periods before getting a couple hours of sleep, then waking to finish the game, before rushing through my normal pre-work routine.

So, I will be able to catch some box scores, but, am unlikely to follow any of the games very closely.

[lazypucker]

Vegas is the only team I would root for, just because of the novelty