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. . . it sure was hard keeping up that reverse-whammy gig for so many weeks. But I did learn a little bit.
I am slightly pessimistic by nature, so I usually do think the Packers will have a tough time. But as PB said recently, this is in large part because pessimists are optimists who like their good news to be a surprise. So I always, always, root for the Packers, but am often pessimistic. My wife gives me grief about this. When the Packers went up big on the Cowboys, she started with that "well, they have it in the bag now" stuff, to which I simply asked her whether she remembered the 2014 NFC Championship game.
I really did think, way back earlier this season, this team would lose to Seattle, so I wrote that, and the Packers won convincingly. As the season went on, this became, as many of you recognized, my little superstitious routine - regaling you all with my certain knowledge that not only would the Packers lose, that I knew how and or why they would.
I thought it would be fun, too, because of course if you keep predicting a team will lose, eventually they will, and then you can give the ol' I-told-you-so speech. But it was actually pretty wearing to have to constantly be so damn negative (apologies to Tex and others who got sick of it, but I really didn't want to change my ways and threaten the whole run). It kinda sucked the energy and even a little joy out of my Packerrats time, but I sure did like the winning, and I'm superstitious enough to think I had to keep it going. I even had a big double-reverse whammy ready if the Packers had beaten Atlanta.
But I actually didn't get too worked up watching the Atlanta game, because it never really was a game. Unlike Seattle in 2014, which left me haunted for months with "what if's" and "why nots," this game never looked like it hinged on any single turning point. The Packer defense just sucked and the team was out of gas.
But I'm telling you, it can't be that much fun to be someone like Wist. That constant negativity really did take its toll on me (my sacrifice to the Packer cause). I am glad, then, that on the whole I enjoyed the ride the team took us on this season - they got further than probably any of us thought when this team was 4 - 6. Yeah, the defense really stinks, despite all those first-round picks, and I don't know if it's Ted's crummy picks or Dom's old ways or Darren Perry's drinking or what, but I'm not sure I'm ready to hash all that out yet.
I really enjoyed the season, all in all, and I wish they'd had just a little more left in the tank so we could be talking about how to beat the Patriots instead of whose fault it all was.
I am slightly pessimistic by nature, so I usually do think the Packers will have a tough time. But as PB said recently, this is in large part because pessimists are optimists who like their good news to be a surprise. So I always, always, root for the Packers, but am often pessimistic. My wife gives me grief about this. When the Packers went up big on the Cowboys, she started with that "well, they have it in the bag now" stuff, to which I simply asked her whether she remembered the 2014 NFC Championship game.
I really did think, way back earlier this season, this team would lose to Seattle, so I wrote that, and the Packers won convincingly. As the season went on, this became, as many of you recognized, my little superstitious routine - regaling you all with my certain knowledge that not only would the Packers lose, that I knew how and or why they would.
I thought it would be fun, too, because of course if you keep predicting a team will lose, eventually they will, and then you can give the ol' I-told-you-so speech. But it was actually pretty wearing to have to constantly be so damn negative (apologies to Tex and others who got sick of it, but I really didn't want to change my ways and threaten the whole run). It kinda sucked the energy and even a little joy out of my Packerrats time, but I sure did like the winning, and I'm superstitious enough to think I had to keep it going. I even had a big double-reverse whammy ready if the Packers had beaten Atlanta.
But I actually didn't get too worked up watching the Atlanta game, because it never really was a game. Unlike Seattle in 2014, which left me haunted for months with "what if's" and "why nots," this game never looked like it hinged on any single turning point. The Packer defense just sucked and the team was out of gas.
But I'm telling you, it can't be that much fun to be someone like Wist. That constant negativity really did take its toll on me (my sacrifice to the Packer cause). I am glad, then, that on the whole I enjoyed the ride the team took us on this season - they got further than probably any of us thought when this team was 4 - 6. Yeah, the defense really stinks, despite all those first-round picks, and I don't know if it's Ted's crummy picks or Dom's old ways or Darren Perry's drinking or what, but I'm not sure I'm ready to hash all that out yet.
I really enjoyed the season, all in all, and I wish they'd had just a little more left in the tank so we could be talking about how to beat the Patriots instead of whose fault it all was.
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