Lil Sebastian Cossa
Opinions are share are my own personal opinions.
- Jul 6, 2012
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I'm super pessimistic about the Wings these days. I'm sure you've seen my posts. We're one of the worst teams in the league and I don't see any indication that management is even somewhat capable of fixing the problem. I hate the direction of the team and our management philosophy. I certainly don't hate the Detroit Red Wings. I love them. I'm a Wings fan.
Why? Because when I was a little kid my favorite color was red so they're the team I chose and I'm an intensely loyal person. Most people willing to read and post in the corners of the internet about hockey are extremely passionate fans. It's not the kind of thing where we can simply stop caring about a team. I've loved the Wings my whole life. That's not about to change because we're bad.
Will I watch fewer games this year? Probably, I usually watch all of them and that sounds like quite a chore this year. I've stopped buying merchandise and such. I intend to watch the Lightning more (they're my secondary) and check out some teams I usually completely ignore. But at the end of the year I'll still be a Wings fan and there's not much I can do to stop that. Sports are about passionately and illogically following a team. When they lose it sucks, but when they win its that much more rewarding. That's why sports are fun. There's no real reason to care about which team managed to put a rubber disk into a net at the right moments over the course of a year. That's insane. But I've never been accused of anything less.
No, I understand. I'm saying that if someone is of the opinion that they're garbage and not entertaining and there is no hope, I'm not saying renounce your fan card. If I did that whenever I felt down about a team, I'd have given up on the Lions about a million times, I'd have slit my wrists about Eastern Michigan the whole time I was there from 2002-2008 (try that. 22 wins in seven years. Ugh). Tigers, Pistons, Wings, whatever.
It's more if your only contribution to a discussion is "Dude, they just suck and they're just gonna suck no matter if everything went right or not, why are you contributing?"
And it does come back to the same thing that people here who don't necessarily want to roast Holland in effigy are shouted down about "non-additive moves". I think a little detente is in order.