You guys know what I am talking about. When you lose that excitement about your team and don't even feel like watching the games or wearing the Jets gear during the games. It normally hits during a terrible season like last year when the Jets were 1-7. The rest of the year you just get that numb feeling like it doesn't matter. I got that feeling in the 3rd Quarter of the Seahawks game and it sadly went over to the Dolphins game. It sucks when I get that feeling. When you emotionally detach from the team. Please tell me you guys get this feeling too and it sucks. Its an empty feeling. All hope is lost. I just hate it. The 2005 season with the QB circus was like that. I couldn't get into any game after the Jaguars one. It sucks to have. I just hope I get it back and keep it Week 1 of 2009.
That feeling started coming on for me as we started to fall apart and all hope slipped away. I will say that this year having Favre I was never worried in games, I felt we always had a chance to come back and win. Boy was that a false sense of comfort that totally disappeared down the stretch as I kept seeing re-runs of Favre throwing the ball and the game away to the other team!!!
I got the same feeling once we kicked a field goal in the first quarter against Seattle. Actually the second I saw snow in mothereffing Seattle I was worried. After the mistake of not going for it against SF I thought to myself..."he's not going to not go for it again, right?" Stupid me.
Theres that awesome feeling of excitement before each game that I love to get. I get pumped up and ready for the Jets to win or atleast play well. When that feeling goes away it is just terrible. I call it a loss of hope. Its one of the worst feelings in the world.
Yeah I got that feeling when we traded for Favre and again when we were raped by the 49ers. Now with Woody firing Mangini and possibly keeping Favre or Sutton and/or promoting Schotty, it's reached a new low.
Oh of course, I got the feeling when Coles dropped that pass on 4th down against the Seahawks. It then carried threw the week (into Christmas which sucked) and led to what I knew was coming. A huge disappointment.
I know a lot of people here don't want to put it on Mangini and blame Favre, and they're partially right. But, if you go over a majority of the games (win or lose) there were just too many plays or things you would see in the game where you would scratch your head and be like "what the f....???" If it's shotgunning on third or fourth and one, to never throwing the ball to Leon in the bubble screen more than once this season, to send Keller to oblivion after dropping that third down pass, to running against bad passing teams and vice versa, to an OC that always gets cute and out thinks himself, to a coach that sends a constant feeling of no hope to the offense that can't get a yard against the worst defenses in either league, to the same feeling of no hope your defense gets because if for some reason that offense gets stopped on that fourth down play and you can't hold the opposing teams offense to a three and out. I'm sorry I'm rambling but I've never, I'm only 31, seen a coaching staff make these type of decisions continually and constantly give the team an inferiority complex. You can go on about how the players play the game, but these guys are human, and the coaching staff trickles down to the players very easily. That's why Mike Westoff is the best coach on the current staff hands down. The players love him, he does his homework constantly, and he's a motivator, they want to run through walls for the guy. I don't care which sport it is: if it's pro football, NHL hockey, Premier League Soccer, Pop Warner football, 10 kids playing football in an alley, if there's no confidence in the players, there's no pride on the field.
All I can say is that after a bunch of seasons like we've had recently the numbness starts to fade away when the Jets do badly. You want to know the truth? I didn't watch even a minute of the Dolphin game. I figured if the Jets won I could pick it up again in the playoffs next week, and if they lost there was no way on earth that watching the event was worth it. After awhile the Jets really wear you down.
It's weird. Now that I think about it, watching the Jets is usually a painful and anxious time for me. I never recall being "excited" or "happy" to watch a game...in fact, it's more like preparing a trip to the dentist. I don't wanna, but I know I have to. And even during the games, instead of just enjoying the moment, I'm more likely to be wishing the game would hurry up and be over so I can finally stop being so damn anxious. Come to think of it, I'm probably much happier and relaxed watching other teams play than watching my very own Jets.
Anyone who didn't see this coming hasn't been watching long enough. I said it a couple of weeks ago, we always lament the losses, we never remember the wins. It's pretty effing sad, you know?
I could see it coming when we were 8-3, but you gotta have hope that one day things will change, even if they never will.
As soon as the Super Bowl predictions were flowing from Serby and Myers (neither of whom mentioned a peep about it in their columns today, BTW) I knew we were in trouble. A franchise that considers a season a success by making the playoffs, and to a certain extent is, should be thinking Super Bowl after week 12? C'mon....To quote Jim Mora....PLAYOFFS? PLAYOFFS?
I saw it coming. I wanted it to be otherwise and so I just didn't watch, figuring that if they lost I'd just be miserable and if they won I'd maybe get a chance to watch them with a better feeling next week. I loved the wins against the Pats and the Titans, they just turned out not to mean anything in the end. I'm feeling a lot better about the Jets today though. Not as good as I'd feel if Woody had swept out the Tangini regime entirely and announced Pioli as GM and Cowher as coach, but 100% better than contemplating having to give up the Jets for a few years until the trash finally got taken out.
There is no doubt about it. I remember my mom always saying to me "Why do you wait all week for these 3 hours of pain?" Haha, its funny but true. What you are talking about is when you don't have the numb feeling though. Thats the fun time of being a fan. When I get the numb feeling I am not worried about the game or the Jets at all. I know it won't work out and 99% of the time I am right. The one exception was beating Pittsburgh in OT. I was sure the Jets would blow it.
I think it's healthiest to follow the Jets, or any sports team for that matter, with a significant amount of interest, but also with a moderate amount of detachment. There is no sense in living through every win and loss. When all is said and done, it is only a game and it should not have a large impact on your mood. Now, with most of us, that's easier said than done. The longer you follow the club and the more exposed you are to losing, the better you handle these inevitable disappointments. For example, the '86 collapse from 10-1 was one very bitter pill to swallow, because no team had ever lost 5 in a row to end the season and still qualify for the playoffs. And I'm sure it hasn't happened again since then. This season's collapse had all the signs of another '86, coming 22 years later, which is the exact number of TDs & INTs thrown by Favre. Talk about deuces being wild! Anyway, having lived through this in '86 (another year we were supposed to play the Giants in the SB), accepting this collapse is a piece of cake. At least in '86 we were wiped out by numerous injuries. This season we were done in by a QB who decided to stop playing after the Tennessee game (I can still picture him shivering uncontrollably against Denver).
What's funny, is I agree with you 100 percent. Between the greater agonies this franchise has faced (Gastineau roughing passer, Duhe running through the mud, Vinny achilles injury, Herm's atrocious play calling at the end of Pitt in '04, etc) the recent history of the Mets and the fact St. John's b-ball is beyond a joke, sports just don't get me down as bad as they used to. Yes I post on a message board, but when I was younger: something was breaking or my fist was going through a wall. Now between a mortgage and family these things just don't have the same effect on me.
I agree, and that numb feeling just comes with being a Jets fan at this point. I must say after finally seeing the Rangers win, I have calmed down quite a bit. I would love to see the Jets win, but can I expect another miracle?
Unfortunately, I'm also an Islander fan, so the pain goes on. Hopefully long enough to get Johnny Tavares. I think the whole sports thing, weakens a bit as you get older. And like I wrote, I don't know if the Mets have something to do with this, but I'm really not taking this toooo bad. Pretty bad, but I realized we were done a week ago, so it's not so painful at this point.
Yeah, poor poor you. I saw this coming with the Jets, but I wanted to believe it would not, when it did I was not surprised. Mets fans are good at this. :smile: As for the Islanders I have no sympathy for you, you had the early 80's By the way we kicked you ass tonight, 5-4. :grin:
