Originally posted by Pick6:Originally posted by GolittaCamper:Originally posted by ApatheticIAm:
all this talk about offense, defense, Alex Smith, Troy Smith, Singletary, draft, Luck, CB, QBs, Gruden, Harbaugh, deep down inside that tiny little core of yours you want the 49ers to win NOW. You know if Alex Smith were to win out and make the playoffs you would be happy because our team made the playoffs. Winning will all make us feel better naturally so no more talk about tanking and firing people! When it happens it happens! Just root your team on now! I'm drunk and half-assedly spellchecked this twice
You are dead wrong, you see as a grown-up and sentient being, I have the ability to look at things in what we call "the long term". Singletary and Alex Smith are not now and never will be top quality NFL caliber at their respective tasks. Any short term successes, despite being enjoyable in the moment, could only serve to lengthen the tenure of these buffoons.
This team will never have long term success with Singletary as head coach, nor are they likely to with the ever affable Alex Smith at the helm.
People root for the team at deferent levels, some live week to week, others root for the long term health of the team. If you look at the long term health and sustained future success of the team meaningless victories however exciting are just that meaningless.
so is it safe to assume that you are pulling for the 9ers to continue losing until ownership is forced to sell the team? I mean if your TRUE concern is the long term successof the team... then it seems that is the most logical end result. Unless you are one of the few who believe that ownership has its s**t together, then obviously the best case scenario for you is continued losing not just this year, but next year and probably the year after until York is forced to sell the team to someone who will probably move it somewhere else... especially since all this losing killed any stadium plans for the York ownership.
It must be miserable to be you on game day...
It's never safe to assume anything, particularly when you don't know me. I never root against my niners, I have been a fan and attended games since 1970, I first remember following the team in 72-73 season, before that I was really to young to know what was going on.
I want the team to win all the time, but I don't get over excited when this current team wins, because I know it is meaningless in the big picture. I have seen ownership change more than once and have seen many coaches and players come and go.
If you were excited about say the victory over the Cardinals, you don't know football very well. Sure fun to get a win, but think about it, we beat an awful team big deal. We won a game that will not matter in the end, this team is incapable of any meaningful victories, particularly this late in a lost season.
If you are not angry at the coaching and management of this team, what kind of fan are you? If you are happy with wins over pathetic teams in a season of under performing, what does that say about you? Well to me it say's you are short sighted, unfocussed and apparently easily amused. The kind of fan who jumps for joy at these meaningless victories is shallow and most likely very young.
Your need for immediate gratification blinds you to what it takes to be a real fan, a real student of the game. I have played coached, and watched football for a long time. When a team has potential, not just talent, but potential it is because the coaching staff has show the ability to win games that they shouldn't. When a team begins to play over their heads, and out preform rather than under preform. then you can get excited on a much deeper level.
Teams that are well coached and well run are truly exciting, you know you are headed somewhere, every win is amplified a thousand times, every loss a painful blow. Teams poorly run such as this one, the losses are annoying, but expected, the wins meaningless.
I want the season to mean something, I miss rooting for a relevant team, a team that is going places. I am a 49er fan never followed another team, when a player leaves this team he is dead to me, I never miss a game, and seldom miss a single play. I have gone several seasons in a row without missing a single snap of 49er football.
Someday I hope you have the same passion for winning that I have, I hope your understanding of the game grows so you can enjoy this team they way I do.
Go Niners!