01-06-2016, 01:09 PM
(01-06-2016, 12:27 AM)Beaker Wrote: Keep repeating that to yourself Saturday morning.
You're the one who was publicly pining for this matchup. Most of us really didn't care who we got. Seriously. We just don't put the emotional investment into the Bengals that you do to the Steelers, because they haven't bullied our team for as long as ours has bullied yours.
You guys (understandably) see this as a way to get playoff revenge on Kimo's Steelers, and it's a revenge you've been waiting 10 years to get. And it is simultaneously a way to end 25 years of playoff frustration. That's a lot of emotion to channel into one game.
The thing is, we don't have NEARLY the amount of emotion invested in this one as you do. Heck, if you win, a small part of me (largely related to the part that has rooted for the Pirates for the last 35 years) will be happy for you because you'll finally get to experience just a small fraction of the playoff joy we've experienced over the last decade. There's zero chance that you would feel the same way for us if the Steelers win, because it would just be more of the same pain and frustration.
So, yeah, the emotional stakes are WAAAY higher in this one for you than they are for us.
