10-31-2021, 09:05 PM
(10-31-2021, 08:39 PM)Joelist Wrote: The perspective is simple. 30 plus years of following a team that mostly sucks, but every now and then gives fans a glimmer that they might really be worth rooting for, be worth believing in - only to crap themselves and extinguish that little glimmer. All that happened was this particular little glimmer died down to a barely visible ember.
And no, they don't get to say "it's only one game" or do the Aaron Rodgers R E L A X. To earn that right you have to have already been a champion - a Lombardi on the shelf earns you that right. Otherwise you're out there each game and have to show up each game and be 100% there each game. EVERY game has to be treated as season defining. The support of the fans no matter what has to be EARNED. Until then they are just the usual Bengal poseurs.
3 straight road games is always tough. The defense did a great job in the first 2, and the offense scored over 30+ in all 3.
Losing to the Jets sucks, no doubt about it. But, it's one game...lost by 3 points...after a HUGE emotional win against a division rival...on the final of a 3 game road stretch...to a team that had their manhood's taken from them last week and were pissed off and fired up this week.
