When you favorite team looses, does it change your mood?

[BlackSnake]

Heck, yah! Atlanta lost 10 to 56 against KC. The number 1 ranked defense in the NFL ended up on their kneels. I'm not a happy camper.

 

[LustyLovers]

Same here...

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

That depends upon what team it was.

If it were the team of surgeons working on my heart transplant, I would probably feel a bit let down.


If they should lose I would be even more depressed.

 

[Boota]

I don't really get affected by it. My Colts lost today in what was a really close game, won by a late game 53 yard field goal. I can't really bitch about a close game. It was a tale of penalties and poor execution, and they still only lost by three. Oh well. If I were actually on the team I would probably care a bit more, though.

 

[SlickTony]

Depends on what the score was, providing I had money riding on the game.

 

[Edward Teach]

Nope

Otherwise I'd be depressed all the time.

[color=sky blue]Go Heels![/color]


Ed

 

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[Vincent E]

Being both a Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots fan, I will have the good taste to not post a comment in this forum out of a healthy sense of respect for my fellow Lit-ter bugs.

Vincent recedes, jumping for joy and clicking his heels with a shit-eating grin on his face.

 

[minsue]

Vincent recedes, jumping for joy and clicking his heels with a shit-eating grin on his face.

 

[R. Richard]

I root for teams in baseball, basketball, football, English League soccer, German League Soccer, several boxers (US, Thai kickboxers), Kung-Fu fighters and a couple of local high school teams.

Somewhere along the way, some of my guys got to win!

 

[Huckleman2000]

As a Packer fan by birth, I'm shocked that anyone even considers this question! I grew up during the Lombardi years, and until the mid-nineties, I didn't even realize I'd been depressed ever since!

Some of my fondest childhood memories include bringing my Dad a beer-glass of Hamm's, along with a plate of crackers and cheese (and pickled herring and summer sausage) to set on the TV-tray while we watched the Packer game. Sunday was the day we all got to eat on TV trays. After the Packer game, there was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, and at various times I remember Bonanza, WalterCronkite's The 20th Century, Land of the Giants, The Wonderful World of Disney, Mission Impossible...

No offense to the Pats fan above, but the home of the Lombardi trophy is Green Bay. The rest of the NFL is just playing keep-away.

 

[LustyLovers]

Gotta admit, we love G.B.

 

[English Lady]

Well talking about football, i do get down right nowty when my team Manchester United loose and I know my husband gets grumpy when Everton loose as well. If both our teams win on the same weekend though...woo hoo!!!!!

 

[OhMissScarlett]

It's annoying, but it doesn't so much change my mood. Yesterday was not a good day for St. Louis fans, whether you like baseball or football. People were out and about and crying about the The Cards and The Rams. I just get annoyed when people are so upset about it. It's like worrying about continental drift. I love The Cardinals, but I don't get depressed when they lose. They need tough love right now, lol.

 

[TheEarl]

Definitely. If I just look up the score on Teletext or the internet, then it will put a damper on my spirits, but if I've actually watched and cheered my team through and they've lost by a whisker, then it's heartbreaking and my day's ruined (and the day of anyone stupid enough to say "Never mind, it's only a game").

When England folded in the SH this summer, I felt nothing less than betrayed. Melodramatic I know, but the ups come with the downs.

The Earl

 

[oggbashan]

Arsenal FC lost to Manchester United yesterday.

That was their first losing game in that competition after a record 49 games without losing. A round 50 would have been nice but...

I know that now is not a good time to talk to my youngest daughter and her husband. They met at an Arsenal match; they go to every home game; they had Arsenal badges on their wedding cake; the bride wore Arsenal colours as her wedding dress...

They will be depressed today. Arsenal are still leading the competition but it isn't the same. I pity the next team they play.

Og

 

[scheherazade_79]

No - which is just as well, because the only team I support is the Welsh national one!

 

[steve w]

Yes, my mood is profoundly affected by how my team are doing.

And as my blessed Man U comprehensively kicked Arsenal's butt all round the Theatre of Dreams yesterday, things couldn't be sweeter. Conversely, when they lost to Chelsea in August, I had a face like a slapped ass for a couple of days. Especially after Mourinho's performance when Porto came to call.

Oh, and for the Gooners -

Ronaldo's was a penalty even if Rooney's wasn't

It was no worse than Pires does on a regular basis

We scored another goal anyway

Who can't bear to shake another pro's hand after the game? Hang your head in shame, Sol.

And that's the last time we arrange for you to have pizza and soup after the game. Bring your own fucking sandwiches next time!

 

[Vincent E]

No offense to the Pats fan above, but the home of the Lombardi trophy is Green Bay. The rest of the NFL is just playing keep-away.

None taken, and we'll be glad to keep it safe and sound over here for a very long time.

I might actually get some sleep tonight. No game.

I know that now is not a good time to talk to my youngest daughter and her husband. They met at an Arsenal match; they go to every home game; they had Arsenal badges on their wedding cake; the bride wore Arsenal colours as her wedding dress...

Now that is what I call hardcore, Og.

 

[BlackSnake]

I actually had some work I needed to get done Sunday, but after seeing that game I grabbed a beer and went outside and set on the step. The poor guy watching the game with me said "Well, I guess they're 5 and 2 now." I was shooting daggers out of my eyes.

Loosing is not the real issue. It's how the game was played. Michael Vick? Football is a team sport. Anybody who watched the last few Falcons games knows that.

The defense got the living crap stomped out of them. I knew the offense wasn't going to do much. They didn't make a single score. It was the special teams. Other teams have figured out how to slove that problem. They kick the ball deep into the inzone or out of bounds. A real no-brainer there.

If the Falcons don't get a good offensive line, they stand a good chance of going 5-7 on the season.

You have to score to win ball games.

I'm not even thinking about watching Monday Night Football. I've had enough for the week.

The good thing is college games turned out ok. My favorite college team Florida State won, just barely. Mississippi State broke it off on the Florida Gators. MSU 2-5, but I like that team. Not heart ache there.


I wasn't even in the mood to get laid.

 

[Octavian]

kicking their butt

Originally quoted by Steve W

And as my blessed Man U comprehensively kicked Arsenal's butt all round the Theatre of Dreams yesterday.

Well certainly some of Arsenal’s players can vouch for that, notably Reyes who was kicked constantly by the Nevilles, and Ashley Cole who was raked by the studs of Van Nistelroy in a tackle that has now been referred to the FA.

And to think that Man United was once universally revered for the quality of their football. But that is the nub of it, isn’t it? That accolade has passed to Arsenal and Man United and their supporters don’t like it. They resent anyone else assuming this mantle. But despite this victory over Arsenal, they are a team in decline, as is evidenced by their clogging, cheating and over-exuberance at the final whistle.

I’m glad you enjoyed the sweet moment Steve W (I won’t ask what the W stands for!) You won’t have much else to enjoy this season.

By the way for those of you who may not be aware of what happened, it seems that an Arsenal player, incensed at the cheating behaviour of Man United, threw a cup of soup over their manager, Sir Alex Ferguson. In no way can that be condoned but a comment on the Arsenal web page did prompt a smile.
A fan ventured to suggest that if he were to have thrown soup over Sir Alex, he wouldn’t have bothered to take it out of the can!

Octavian

A Gooner for ever!

 

[English Lady]

*LMAO*

Oh I am sorry Octavian but please....you lost. plain and simple and you don't like it. If the penalty given to united had been Henry at the other end with exactly the same thing you'd be screaming for a penalty and been sorely upset if it hadn't been given.


I know i'd be completely pissed off if We'd have lost that match (Manchester united fan here too) but I would have accepted that it was a passionate game that it was close (all the other stats show that) and that lady luck wasn't with us that day.


There were bad tackles that went both ways, penalty claims (and clear dives) both ends...pushing, shoving and general cursing all round. it wasn't pretty but Aresnal we're not saints.

At the end of the Day Man United wanted that win, desired that win and needed it. The celebrated because the damn well deserved too. We are not a team in decline, if anything we are on our way back up.

I will not argue any more but just wanted to state my case.

when you're so used to wining I guess you automatically turn into bad losers*L*

So lets cool off, calm down and see what goes on for the rest of the season.

And sorry for the hi Jack there Black Snake....but you can see from our posts how much football actually effects our moods.

 

[BlackSnake]

Yep, but still no Monday Night Football tonight.

I'm learning a bit about soccer. Here is link to a very exciting game we in the US call football

 

[steve w]

Octavian,

Thanks for the entirely predictable Gooner reaction. No doubt you'll remember a couple of years back when you clinched the title by beating us at Old Trafford. God that hurt us - losing our title to our fiercest rivals, on our own soil. Perhaps you'll also recall that the Utd team shook hands with you, and didn't resort to screaming, stamping their foot, or throwing items of food in the tunnel.

No doubt you'll remember last season, when your much-admired unbeaten run would have ended, but for a penalty miss that was totally outside your team's control. You may also recall the reaction of your players and the treatment of van Nistelrooy.

No doubt you'll remember last season when Portsmouth were beating you, until Pires fell over two yards away from any tackle and won a penalty by cheating.

No doubt you'll remember that your team has had 50 red cards in the past eight years - more than any other Premiership club - and most of them for petulant behaviour and reactions, something that Wenger has neither seen nor taken effective action against.

Sorry, but EL is right - you lost. Utd wanted it more and Arsenal, thanks to their fine start to the season, didn't have to do anything. Arsenal had one shot on target in 90 minutes.

Perhaps if your side had merely celebrated that they'd gone a magnificent 49 games without defeat, and that this was a game too far against a team who wanted it more, everyone would have more respect. But no, it's always bad luck. You never get outplayed, even when Chelsea beat you at Highbury, and Inter Milan kicked your butts.

This is why Arsenal aren't loved. Admired for some wonderful football, but not loved. Great teams take defeat on the chin and come back for more. They don't sulk and whine and blame everyone else.

 

[BlackSnake]

Coach Jim Mora Press Conference - Monday, October 25, 2004After loss)

Jim Mora Press Conference - Monday, October 25, 2004:
http://www.atlantafalcons.com/gameday/010/238/index.html

Jim Mora: It’s tough to know what to say after a day like yesterday. It wasn’t the best of days, obviously, but like my dad reminded me when I picked up my cell phone last night, he said: ‘Hey Jimbo, it doesn’t matter if it’s by 50 or by one, it’s still a loss and it’s only one loss; you’ve just got to carry on.’ And fortunately, we have the type of team, the type of players, the type of organization, the type of coaches who will get over this as quick as possible without just minimizing the effects, which…it was drastic, it was ugly, it was awful. I don’t know if I’ve ever been involved in one that’s worse. They’re all bad. I mean, all losses are awful, but that one…it was…[Falcons vice president of football communications] Reggie [Roberts] just said, ‘Was there anything good?’ And I said, ‘Well, no.’ So obviously [Allen] Rossum’s return was good, but it just got buried in the fact that we just didn’t do many thing the way we’re capable of doing them and they played extremely well, Kansas City did. It was a tough day, but I’ve been involved in a couple of those before. We as a staff have been involved with them. I’m sure some of our players have had games like that before and you just have to bounce back and believe in what you’re doing. We’re in there evaluating the film right now, our coaches are. And I’ve had to take all sharp objects out of the meeting rooms, but we’re going to be okay.

Q: You mentioned Rossum’s return…just how important has special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis been to this staff?
Mora: He’s a great coach. And we were fortunate to keep him when there was a change made. Our special teams have been very, very good all year. Our kick cover teams – punt and kickoffs – have been the best in the league. Yesterday they did a nice job again against a great returner, Dante Hall. Our punt return team has been outstanding. You know, we still want to get our kickoff return amped up a little bit. Chris Mohr has kicked the ball well, Jay Feely is perfect on field goals. Hey, that’s a bright spot.

Q: Do you approach this team differently – a team who’s franchise hasn’t had all that much success – than you would a team with the tradition of, say, San Francisco?
Mora: That’s a tough question because I don’t really know because I’m still learning about this team. My gut feeling is that we’ve got a group of guys in that locker room who are passionate about winning, they care about winning and have a winner’s mentality. And I think that, and I said it two weeks ago, we have the right people on the bus and my gut feeling is that they’ll handle the right way: they won’t get down, they won’t get into a pattern where they think ‘woe is me’ and ‘how are we ever going to recover?’ I kind of started to feel that on the plane, actually, yesterday going home and I walked back in the back and it wasn’t jovial by any means, but guys were talking about Denver and getting back to work and what they can do better and things like that. I think we’re going to be okay along those lines, but you’re right. San Francisco, and I mentioned this yesterday for those who didn’t hear, in 1997 we opened the season, we lost to Tampa, Steve Young gets hurt, Jerry Rice blows out his knee then we go on, we win 11 straight and we go into Kansas City to Arrowhead [and lose] 44-9. We go into Arrowhead, we’ve won 11 in a row and they just put one on us, much like yesterday. And we came back, we made it to the NFC championship game where we lost to Green Bay. Denver beat them that year in the Super Bowl because we had to beat Denver on a Monday night and that was the last game Denver had lost before they went on that big steak.

So we’ve been involved in these things. Our coaches are experienced; we know how to handle it. And the score, the score looked so ugly yesterday. What was it, 56-10? That’s an ugly score. There were some things that might have made that score different, had I chosen to maybe kick some field goals or chosen to punt instead of go for it on fourth down. But at the point in the game where those things became significant, I felt it was more important to establish an attitude as an organization of, hey, yeah, we’re down 35 points or we’re down 38 points or whatever it is and we could punt, we could concede, we could not go for it on fourth down or we could kick a field goal and get three and get the score a little closer and make the score look a little bit more respectable, but that’s not who we are and that’s not who we want to be. We’re going to try and go for it on fourth down. We’re going to try to score touchdowns because what’s three? What’s three? It’s nothing in a game like that. And at the end of the day, whether you lose by 46 or you lose by one, it’s still just a loss – I shouldn’t say just a loss – it’s still an ugly loss. But the score doesn’t matter. So our players on the sideline, I’ll give them credit for this…remember the fourth down on about the 45-yard line? And I was about to sent the punt team out there and I just decided, ‘No, heck with it. Let’s go for it.’ And about four or five guys came up and said, ‘That’s right. We go for it.’ And I like that. I appreciate that. And I think they appreciate the fact that, as a staff, we’re going to keep attacking. It doesn’t always work out the way you want it to, but I think that’s the mindset for this organization as long as I’m here.

Q: Do you coach more psychology or psyche today than you normally do and if you do, come Wednesday, is it back to normal?
Mora: I think both. I think you have to set the attitude again. They have to come into the meeting at one o’clock and I have to stand up in front of them and set the agenda, the mindset for the coming week. And so that does deal with psyche. I have a term that I’ve always used for when you get in a situation like this and it’s just, ‘Go Home to Momma.’ We’re going home to momma. When things aren’t going good, is there any better place in the world to be than your mom’s house? And she’s cooking up a little stew and your bed’s made, it’s the room you slept in when you were a little kid. It’s a comforting feeling. That’s a psyche thing, but also it’s an X’s and O’s thing. Because going home to momma means…we win with our football, which means you win by blocking people, by getting off blocks, by tackling, by breaking tackles, by catching the ball, by knocking the ball down…it’s not always about scheme, it’s about fundamentals. And I’ve always said that. I’ve said: ‘Hey guys, it’s time to go home to momma.’ We don’t feel good. We don’t like where we are. Let’s go back to basics. And so I’ll give them that one today. I don’t know if they’ll laugh or think I’m corny. They’ll probably do a little bit of both. But it’s just a term I’ve always used. And I saw you guys smile. Hey, mom’s house is a good place to be, isn’t it? When things aren’t going good, you go back to mom. She’ll nuzzle you.

Q: How soon do you expect your injured players back?
Mora: I don’t believe that we lost any yesterday. That’s one of the positives that came out of yesterday is that we came out pretty healthy. Travis Hall was able to play with the shoulder. He made it through the game, which was a positive. Chris Draft was not able to play, but before the game he was close. It was really close. So we should be able to get him back. It was great to have DeAngelo back. We got him some action, he made a couple plays. I don’t know where Cory Hall is going to be. I thought that there’d be a really good chance that he’d play and he actually regressed as the week went on, so I don’t know where he’s going to be. Eric Beverly, I think there’s a chance for Eric. I think we’ll have to see on Wednesday or Thursday and if he gets any contact in. [Aaron] Beas[ley] tried to practice on Friday and he just couldn’t quite push off, so it’ll be interesting to see where he is on Wednesday or Thursday. And then Rod [Coleman]’s still a couple weeks away. But we’re going to get some guys back and after this week and we have the bye and – knock on wood – nothing happens to anyone this week, we should be close to full strength going into the second half of the season, which is where we want to be. And I don’t think the bye could come at any better time for us. When you looked at it early in the season, you said, ‘Boy, bye at mid-season? Perfect.’ And I still feel that way.

Q: What do you say to your defense, with the way they’d played the run the first six games of the season, after yesterday?
Mora: You’ve got to give credit to Kansas City. They’ve got a great offensive line, they’ve got arguably the best back in football. There are a lot of great backs and he’s certainly one of them. But that isn’t what you do. You don’t say, ‘Oh, they just out-played us.’ You’ve got to go look at the film. You’ve got to figure out why they were able to gain the yards they gained. Were we out of our gap? Were we trying to do too much? Were we popping gaps? Were we missing tackles? Were we not aware of formations and motions and plays they were running? And I think all of those things were a factor. So we’ve just got to take a hard look at it. We’ll look at the film today. The way I want our players to look at it…I don’t really want them to look at it as a game; I just want them to look at it as a series of plays. You know, ‘What could I have done better on this play? What did I not do correctly on this play? Why did they have success on this play?’ You know, we don’t need to relive the butt kicking we took yesterday. We don’t need to relive that. We had enough of that yesterday. But we do need to go in there and find out why it happened. And I think that’s how our coaches will approach it. But like I said, it’s fundamentals. It’s fundamentals. And they’re a very good football team and they were desperate to win and they came out and they got after us. They played extremely well.