Please Help Me Sleep At Night - Browns Cheated Again - 12/24/18 07:22 PM
Hello fellow Dawgs.
I'm here today to ask for help. I am a pessimist. A person with "Battered Dawg Syndrome".
I want to see the positive, but I've just seen this story too many times to get happy.
This year the Browns were once again victimized by the NFL. Cheated, robbed, bamboozled.
So why bring it up this year? Well the NFL actually admitted it. It’s not conspiracy theories anymore. We have letters of apology stating that we should've beaten the Steelers in the week 1 game, and the Raiders.
It seemed at the time (to most) that this would not matter. I said to my brother when they allowed that offsides on the final block kick to force a tie week 1: "This will make us miss the playoffs". And so it has. If I were a less stable person I'd think it was scripted.
Even just accepting it as bad luck (19 years straight of it, the only years we haven't had bad luck in my lifetime was the 5 we didn't exist).
As our Week 17 matchup comes around we have 2 options:
1) Win and the Steelers goto the Playoffs
2) Lose and the Ravens goto the Playoffs.
SO PLEASE, HELP ME NOT BE SICK TO MY STOMACH ABOUT THIS YEAR.
I enjoy watching the wins these past 6 weeks, but the playoffs are all that REALLY matter.
Arguments I've heard so far:
1) At least this way we got rid of Hue
2) We have talent going forward
But I've seen both of those stories before. New coach, new players, etc. Remember when Kellen Winslow got a staph infection that swole his man bits to the size of grapefruits? William Green got stabbed by his girlfriend? Josh Gordon? The force out rule change in 2007 that cost us the playoffs vs Arizona? etc etc I could probably type 10 pages of random stuff that can happen year to year.
Who’s to say next year something else bad doesn’t happen?
We earned the right to play for the division NOW. How do I continue to support something that has blatantly ripped us off?
In the 80s/90s I could just blindly trust. I was young and also the cameras were so grainy you couldn't confirm or deny anyways.
This year the CAMERAS ARE AMAZING. We can see Njoku got a better spot than they gave him, we can see the facemasks, the PIs, the no-calls, the holding, etc.
Am I crazy? (well I am, but I mean for this reason) Please tell me I am with reasons to support why this isn't completely unfair.
Few things brought me joy like watching the Browns games with my family each Sunday and I want to go back to believing.
Sorry for the rant. I don't mean to sound bitter, just sad. LOVE ALL MY DAWGS!
Sincerely,
Myka
Just one example from the tie game. 7 points. Ball not even in frame yet, no PI called.
I'm here today to ask for help. I am a pessimist. A person with "Battered Dawg Syndrome".
I want to see the positive, but I've just seen this story too many times to get happy.
This year the Browns were once again victimized by the NFL. Cheated, robbed, bamboozled.
So why bring it up this year? Well the NFL actually admitted it. It’s not conspiracy theories anymore. We have letters of apology stating that we should've beaten the Steelers in the week 1 game, and the Raiders.
It seemed at the time (to most) that this would not matter. I said to my brother when they allowed that offsides on the final block kick to force a tie week 1: "This will make us miss the playoffs". And so it has. If I were a less stable person I'd think it was scripted.
Even just accepting it as bad luck (19 years straight of it, the only years we haven't had bad luck in my lifetime was the 5 we didn't exist).
As our Week 17 matchup comes around we have 2 options:
1) Win and the Steelers goto the Playoffs
2) Lose and the Ravens goto the Playoffs.
SO PLEASE, HELP ME NOT BE SICK TO MY STOMACH ABOUT THIS YEAR.
I enjoy watching the wins these past 6 weeks, but the playoffs are all that REALLY matter.
Arguments I've heard so far:
1) At least this way we got rid of Hue
2) We have talent going forward
But I've seen both of those stories before. New coach, new players, etc. Remember when Kellen Winslow got a staph infection that swole his man bits to the size of grapefruits? William Green got stabbed by his girlfriend? Josh Gordon? The force out rule change in 2007 that cost us the playoffs vs Arizona? etc etc I could probably type 10 pages of random stuff that can happen year to year.
Who’s to say next year something else bad doesn’t happen?
We earned the right to play for the division NOW. How do I continue to support something that has blatantly ripped us off?
In the 80s/90s I could just blindly trust. I was young and also the cameras were so grainy you couldn't confirm or deny anyways.
This year the CAMERAS ARE AMAZING. We can see Njoku got a better spot than they gave him, we can see the facemasks, the PIs, the no-calls, the holding, etc.
Am I crazy? (well I am, but I mean for this reason) Please tell me I am with reasons to support why this isn't completely unfair.
Few things brought me joy like watching the Browns games with my family each Sunday and I want to go back to believing.
Sorry for the rant. I don't mean to sound bitter, just sad. LOVE ALL MY DAWGS!
Sincerely,
Myka
Just one example from the tie game. 7 points. Ball not even in frame yet, no PI called.