Bunker

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(10-26-2017, 08:50 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Marv had lost me early in the season with some of his dumb game decisions, but now the team has returned to its flatter than Kansas mentality.

I had such high hopes for the 50th Anniversary team.  I believe the pieces ARE there, and they are being sorely mismanaged.  Personnel decisions that have me wondering "Are they trying to minimize their second contract by not playing them an entire year?".  Being grateful to Marvin for leading the team to a competitive, perennial playoff appearance has been completely replaced by hatred for wasting the opportunities and wanting to scream at how little effort this team displays.

I am actually, for the first time ever, considering not renewing my season tickets next year.  I really have stayed with it because my 84 year-old father goes to every game with me, but I could think of 1000 other things we could do where he doesn't have to walk as much and deal with such frustration (although he really doesn't care...he just goes with me).  

It isn't the money, but I am just starting to realize that I don't enjoy watching something that is so different from how I approach my life and what I model for my kids and the kids I coach.  

I will still attend the rest of this year's games, hoping for some kind of miracle, but deep down I know this is the end.  I am not even sure I will be in to the draft, which is something I have always enjoyed to a great extent.

Take care, all...I will be back after a few weeks of bunker time.

You take care! I got over the Bengals being an embarrassment a long time ago. There's more to life. During my former career, I needed a release and that was football. Then the 90's hit and it drove me to even a deeper depression. I found God and golf. I vowed never to let anything I have no control get me worked up and down. Now I only get angry when I hook one. 
 It's just entertainment for me anymore, I still care, but it doesn't define who I am.