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 Adam
Messages: 6844
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| RDOilerfan wrote on Wed, 02 October 2019 15:31 |
So why bother watching the team or paying attention to them if you know it will end up in failure? It's like watching a move after someone told you every single detail on what happened. What's the point.
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This is what I don't understand from your viewpoint. You seem to believe if we're not willing to stick our heads in the sands and ignore all evidence that suggests anything but Stanley Cup parades in our future, we're not fans of the team.
That's clearly not true. There's a large number of us who've spent an awful lot of time posting in a forum about the Edmonton Oilers because the team does matter to us and we want them to do well. If we're critical, it's because we want better for them, and because we can see the pattern of mistakes.
Even if things were good, it's unlikely we'd agree with everything said or done, and this forum is for discussing the team - so it's a pretty good place to air those grievances.
To be sure - after this much failure, and a stubborn insistence on doing everything wrong SO MUCH OF THE TIME, it's a good question why we haven't given up on the team. For me, it's a pretty deep love that was built watching this team win Cups in my formative years, and the desire to someday see that again and share that joy with my kids. But in a way it IS a bad relationship because the team doesn't return the love adequately. They do stupid things, and they never are successful because of that. We basically need to overcome 30 other teams PLUS an incompetent head office, and that's no small task.
But I still say "we" when I talk about this team, so it's unlikely I'm going to leave the bad relationship any time.
That means, unfortunately, you're likely going to see me continuing to be critical of the team whenever I disagree with something they're doing...so you might as well accept that it's going to happen.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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