06-18-2015, 01:20 PM
(06-18-2015, 01:15 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Meh, it's a little of column A and a little of column B on this one. I'm not saying people are saying they'd be 100% happy if we went one-n-done 4 times and that was it, but I think there is plenty of evidence that Bengals fans declare "success" faster than fans of teams with better histories; and that makes perfect sense to me.
Absolutely, which is exactly what I knew you were saying.
Being "successful" is relative, and a lot of people think 4 playoff appearances is great success while fans of other teams may not agree.
Some people like to pull the strawman of "you're saying we're happy losing in the playoffs!!!" when we aren't saying that. We're saying that people define success differently and are overly excited to just make the playoffs, we aren't saying that you're happy with the losses though. You'd think someone that (supposedly) made it through law school could figure the difference out. Oh well.
