10-18-2018, 07:17 PM
(10-18-2018, 06:40 PM)McC Wrote: Don't know why you aren't getting this. It's been my experience that when someone makes a dire prediction and then they say I hope I'm wrong, they are usually full of shit and don't hope that even a little bit.
I don't know where you are getting 'usually' from. You and I neither one know what's in people's minds!! I can tell you without doubt, that I root and hope this team excels each week. But I also know their track record, and have very little confidence and expectations that things will be different.
I had a ton of confidence and positive expectations the first 23 years, because I knew the brilliant football mind Paul Brown had from what I had heard about him, with the Browns, from my father, and what I saw of him with the Bengals.
Once I saw the huge difference between Paul and his son, things went south with expectations quickly ... BUT I can still root for them, AND hope that my expectations are wrong and get overturned eventually!