07-30-2015, 12:32 PM
(07-30-2015, 12:42 AM)WhoDeyWho Wrote: I guess. There is an entire 16-game season that leads to those playoff games every year. You seem to be discounting the importance and the excitement of those games week in and week out.
It's a lot more fun watching a team that is playing every week for a shot at the playoffs rather than draft seeding.
And 15 years ago is an awfully long time to be relishing a victory. Don't know about you, but my sports attention span is a helluva lot shorter than that.
This.
Some people act like the enjoyment that the experienced with regular season wins never happened once we lose a playoff game. But the fact is that the future can not change the present, and the past can not change the present.
When we win a regular season game I am happy. I don't say "I don't know if I am happy or not because I have to wait and see what happens in the playoffs". And even if we win a Super Bowl that does not make me happy in subsequent years when we lose regular season games. I don't say "Well the Steelers just beat us but I am happy because we won a Super Bowl a few years ago."
Winning is fun and losing is bad. But neither the future nor the past changes what happens in the present.
