goffer48 wrote on Mon, 25 November 2019 17:02

Guys ( and I could give a rat's ass how politically incorrect that may , or may not be )..... It's a choice . It may be more difficult for some, but choosing to be a critic was the easy way out when they were playing crappy. I admit falling into that hole earlier ( 2008 ish ) , but quickly saw on this site, that it wasn't for me. To easy to look for / ignore the negatives, cuz they be right in front of you, The positives be where the joy be. But it's hard to change. Thank goodness I had Oilfans... er.. I mean Oilcritics ...to show me who I didn't want to be. I mean, I certainly understood it, but it was not a healthy attitude for me... ( HULK SMASH !! TV ... sort of thing . ) I look to see how hard most of these guys ( players ) are trying... & some, I can see, are trying too hard to avoid a mistake. What boils my blood ?? Players who try to take the puck away from the opposition..... FFS Man!! Take the man off the puck !! Anyways .... I digress. Trust me guys ... it's a lot less stressful and enjoyable if you let yourself become 95% fan and be a critic on 5 % of the time ( you gotta get pissed once in a while !! ) Life is fleeting . So is Glory . Cheer while you can. Just try and forget how much money they make, and what Katz has to pay them out of our pockets with ticks & merch. ... Okay my blood is rising ... enough !! GO OIL GO !!

So basically, you're advising us to be Positive Pollyanna fans. I get where you're coming from in terms of avoiding stress, but thing is that many of us (myself included) would like to see the Oilers win another Stanley Cup. We don't get too excited about participation trophies, because it is a competition like all sports leagues are.

So anyway, being a rose-glasses wearing fan is not for me. I'm more than a little bit tired of watching the team I follow finish low in the standings and be mocked for always being in the running for the draft lottery. It may have to do with the fact that this is how I cope with being a fan of a team that has made failure its hallmark for most of the past decade and a half.

"There's no greater springboard to development than failure." - Craig MacTavish, April 13/15.

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"Sabres think the suck is their ally? They merely adopted the suck. The Oilers were born in it...molded by it."