# Has your NFL team's season gone down in flames, too? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774 "2006-12-04T01:24:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/41 "2006-12-04T18:22:38Z")
I see that I am the only Dolphan to raise a hand–it’s probably because all of the others have killed themselves… ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/42 "2006-12-04T18:25:29Z")
[QUOTE=usar\_jag] I see that I am the only Dolphan to raise a hand–it’s probably because all of the others have killed themselves… [/QUOTE] My husband is a Dolphins’ fan. Can barely work up the enthusiasm to check the scores anymore… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/43 "2006-12-04T18:29:56Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] As a Chargers fan since the Air Coryell days, it’s nice to finally feel **good** about my team (the Super Bowl appearance felt more flukey than skillful; at the risk of putting the whammy on 'em, I like this year’s team better than that one). [/QUOTE] Amen to that! I’m still terribly saddened that Dan Fouts never saw a Super Bowl. ☹ But this year? Oh doctor! We’ve got the best record in the league (tied with the Bears & Colts) and have won 6 straight so far. I’d be foolish to underestimate Denver, Seattle and even Kansas City (we lost to them once already this year), but our prospects are so good I’m very excited. G 🙂 SAN DIEG :eek: ! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/44 "2006-12-04T19:02:39Z")
[QUOTE=Stuffy] Yeah but that was a fun 15 minutes. Well, at least we’re not the Raiders. [/QUOTE] Oh yeah, big fun. My in-laws are all Raiderfans 😃😃😃 . ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/45 "2006-12-04T20:12:27Z")
Charger fan since '81. Yeah! ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/46 "2006-12-04T20:29:14Z")
[QUOTE=Chanteuse] The reason I like SD is because in their very first season, my mom was one of the cheerleaders! So how can I **not** root for them? 🙂 [/QUOTE] Dude! Your dad married an NFL Cheerleader? You have 100% pure pimpitude running in your VEINS! I so envy you. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/47 "2006-12-04T20:34:00Z")
Steelers are out of it. I mostly blame Cower for not making Big Ben sit out until he got healthy (Batch was doing well) and not taking Santonio Holmes off of special teams after he fumbled away his third game. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2006, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/48 "2006-12-04T23:25:58Z")
Yup, time to put in my near worn out Super Bowl XXXIV tape again. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/49 "2006-12-05T01:00:07Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] I was born in TX and grew up in SoCal. [/QUOTE] I _ **swear** _ I’m not making this up. I was born in Southern California (La Mesa)–and grew up in Texas!! ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/50 "2006-12-05T01:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=MonkeyMule] Dude! Your dad married an NFL Cheerleader? You have 100% pure pimpitude running in your VEINS! I so envy you. 😃 [/QUOTE] I don’t know if pimpitude counts for me, since I’m not really a dude–I’m a chick! 🙂 Dad was a high school cheerleader, too. You’d think I’d be a\* hot\* chick, but alas, I’m not. Maybe if I ever drop all my extra weight! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/51 "2006-12-05T01:19:55Z")
[QUOTE=Dob] I’m with Ashtar… The Redskins have once again broken my football soul. every year, so much promise… New Players! New Coach! Same freakin results. We have been to the playoffs twice since 1991!! Twice! Arrgggg! [/QUOTE] Add me to the brotherhood of the miserable. I saw it coming. Pathetic preseason perfomances (and training camp that was described as Club Med). Portis getting his shoulder busted in the meaningless NE preseason game. Pearson Prioleau going down in the first play of the season… The Brunell era is over, which makes the team middle of the road instead of roadkill. Campbell has a nice arm and great athleticism - yeah, he threw the bonehead pick and lost the game, but we were in the game until then. Defense needs linebacking stat. We’re so banged up it isn’t funny, so let’s see what happens when Campbell has an entire camp taking the snaps, Portis is back, and Springs is in the mix. If Joe wants back in next year the team is his. Snyder is a lifelong ‘Skins fan. He’d never fire Gibbs. Williams’ defense is looking shaky and I hear he is full of himself, but the D has improved considerably in the last few games. Get the D improved and this is a team that is as good as the rest of the NFC East. Lions and Cards fans - maybe your teams should be combined or something. There is a lot of parity in the NFL, but those two teams have never been better than average. I seem to remember the Lions being in the playoffs in the early 90s, though. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/52 "2006-12-05T16:15:17Z")
The Barry Sanders days. He kept the Lions fans alive but management killed him. Since then we have proven how no matter how many rules the league makes to achieve parity ,arrogant mismanagement will trump them. One Lion coach asked what do You have to do to get fired here. Millan must also ask. Our team doesn’t go down in flames .It has been consumed in a funeral pyre for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/53 "2006-12-05T16:41:54Z")
[QUOTE=Anastasaeon] Not yet. Go Hawks! [/QUOTE] Yep, that would be The Donkeys bursting into flames. Way to turn a 7-2 record (1st place) into 7-5 (planning for an early vacation) morons. I’m a whore though–I never picked up a love for the Broncos when I moved here from Seattle. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/54 "2006-12-05T17:16:28Z")
Another Steelers fan checking in. We just aren’t that good this year. We turn the ball over too many times, for openers. Ah, well. We’ve been spoiled in this town. My friend the Lions fan has given up hope for his team and is now rooting for them to get the first draft pick. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/55 "2006-12-05T17:30:27Z")
With you Astar, Dob and Hippy Hollow. I am a Redskins fan who expected great things this year and I kept it going all the way through Sunday even talking then vaguely of how - if we won out – there was still a chance. Not that I bought that really but I kept dreaming … Now … I guess it would be nice if Campbell could develop before we begin FA [FA Speculation](http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=86379) but I know it won’t happen. I Expect to win the the Pre-season Free agent battle again like we always do ( we are the 60’s Celtics of FA) and expect to be talking about our playoff seed this time next year (what? what?) ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/56 "2006-12-05T23:56:40Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen] Then in the middle of the '80s we had Jim Kelly and went to the Superbowl, mulitple times- in a row- a new league record!!! What pride, what joy!! We never won. Sucks to be a Bills fan. And yet, a Bills fan I remain. [/QUOTE] How big a fan can you be if you don’t know the decade of your super bowl losses? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/57 "2006-12-06T00:06:40Z")
[QUOTE=jimmmy] With you Astar, Dob and Hippy Hollow. I am a Redskins fan who expected great things this year and I kept it going all the way through Sunday even talking then vaguely of how - if we won out – there was still a chance. Not that I bought that really but I kept dreaming … Now … I guess it would be nice if Campbell could develop before we begin FA [FA Speculation](http://www.footballsfuture.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=86379) but I know it won’t happen. I Expect to win the the Pre-season Free agent battle again like we always do ( we are the 60’s Celtics of FA) and expect to be talking about our playoff seed this time next year (what? what?) [/QUOTE] Holy crap, I hope that’s just talk. That makes no fucking sense whatsoever! Collins seems serviceable as a backup. Another #2 guy, fair enough. But Leftwich? The offense isn’t bad. No real needs there. The defense needs linebacking help, and probably another pass rusher. Just for once I wish they’d go for someone somewhat unknown or emerging instead of the biggest name out there. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/58 "2006-12-06T01:11:20Z")
[QUOTE=SenorBeef] How big a fan can you be if you don’t know the decade of your super bowl losses? 😛 [/QUOTE] OK- so preview should be my friend and I can’t type- but it wasn’t all my fault… That pesky 8 is right there _next to_ the 9, waiting to be pressed, enticing me, looking at me… The 8 asked for it, and the 9 was feeling coy. What was I to do??? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-your-nfl-teams-season-gone-down-in-flames-too/382774/59 "2006-12-06T01:16:22Z")
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