Why do we even bother?

[Proudiddy]

1 hour ago, hepcat said:

Why do we watch football? Why do we waste our short lives watching a pointless spectacle that ultimately has no bearing on our lives? Is it for the distraction? Is it so we can feel something, anything, in a world where is easy to feel numb? On days like today, where I find my day ruined because of an embarrassing display by my favorite team, I find myself wondering why I care.

I have loved sports all my life. But life is short. Too short to feel like I do today, after another pathetic display by the Carolina Panthers. Another loss, another wasted season, and another wasted afternoon of my life. I could have written a song with my afternoon, or exercised, or many other more productive activities that don't involve sitting on the couch feeling miserable.

Many of you might call me a fair-weather fan. I've supported this team through good times and bad for 20 years. I just needed to get these thoughts out to the people who may feel the same way.

Well said, hep.  I wanted to write out a similarly, beautiful, well-thought out essay about how this season in a lot of ways has extinguished that ethereal fire for the game, the team, the feeling of being a part of something...

Idk if the election, the campaign season,  the superbowl journey and subsequent loss, the twenty-one years of inconsistency, or the seeming indifference coming from the top of the organization down has had a cumulative effect, but I've started to ask myself the same questions.  Why do I care?  Why invest so much on something that is so trivial in the big picture?  I guess it makes it easier when the subject of our investment doesn't seem to reciprocate our passion or attention.

My mom sent me a text the end of the game expressing her disbelief, and i told her i was just apathetic.  I expect it.  We FIND ways to have days like today.

To be fair, I'm starting to evaluate a lot of things in my life that I've been dedicating time and resources to that just don't seem to give me a return on my investment.   Maybe it's in the air...  but, i know this lackluster season has made it easier to come to this place.

Anyway...  i'm with you.  This will always be my team, but I just dontknow how much I care about the NFL anymore.  I havent been as nearly as invested this year as i have in the past, and with the season we've had, each week has pushed me away even further.  And it seems to make life a lot more peaceful the further away I get.

[Snake]

1 hour ago, Newtcase said:

NFL ratings are suffering.  Outside a chosen few teams watching the NFL is more often an exercise of frustration than one of joy.

That's what happens when you pin storylines before the season. People are tired of a rigged system. If we were allowed to win the SB last year, this year would be a non issue . 

[YourMomsLover]

its to the point where instead of screaming my head off after a spectacular play, I just silently raise my fist in the air.

that's subconscious poo Im not even controlling. My care is broken.

[Growl]

Its kind of remarkable how many people have come out saying similar stuff the past 7 months.

 

This team is such a parasite. Sucking on our joy, rallying us with "Keep Pounding!" but never letting that actually count for anything because they can't just put one freaking trophy in the case.

[gorillamilitia13]

I find myself wondering the same thing on days like today brother

[Wolfpredator]

Its not even about the Panthers being bad this year....it's just that I do not care as much as I once did.  Yes, I plant myself in front of the TV every single time the panthers are playing but I do not enjoy it like I used to.  I never find myself screaming like crazy or jumping around like a lunatic, i've just been blahhhh the last few seasons.  Last season was extremely fun, i'll admit but it was taxing as well.  All the games we nearly lost at the end and crap would just wear me down.  I even questioned after last seasons if I was going to continue watching and yet here I am.  It's hard to just "let it go" completely.  Maybe one of these seasons I will only watch half the games or something...eventually just letting go altogether.  Hard to invest so much energy in something you have zero control over.  

[Harbingers]

1 hour ago, hepcat said:

 

Many of you might call me a fair-weather fan. I've supported this team through good times and bad for 20 years. I just needed to get these thoughts out to the people who may feel the same way.

You don't sound like a fair weather fan.

You sound like a overly spiteful girlfriend with no basis in facts. 

As for why you do it, you answered your own question. 

[mc52beast]

Ratings are down, many reasons why.

Piss poor officials

Piss poor play 

Colin Kaepernick 

Election

I have supported this team since its inception, they have probably shortened my life span by at least 10 years. No matter how bad it got, I never wavered. I'm at the point now where football just isn't that important, still love the team but spending quality time with my family that doesn't include sitting in front of a tv for 3.5 hours is now more important.

[rhyslloyd]

Fire Ron.


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[motocross_cat]

Been going to atleast 6 games a year since 08.  Not anymore.  Its become too hard to sit through.

[motocross_cat]

Just now, motocross_cat said:

Been going to atleast 6 games a year since 08.  Not anymore.  Its become too hard to sit through.

I was just playin....and you know this...MAN.

Tits out for the cats.

[The_Rainmaker]

3 hours ago, hepcat said:

Why do we watch football? Why do we waste our short lives watching a pointless spectacle that ultimately has no bearing on our lives? Is it for the distraction? Is it so we can feel something, anything, in a world where is easy to feel numb? On days like today, where I find my day ruined because of an embarrassing display by my favorite team, I find myself wondering why I care.

I have loved sports all my life. But life is short. Too short to feel like I do today, after another pathetic display by the Carolina Panthers. Another loss, another wasted season, and another wasted afternoon of my life. I could have written a song with my afternoon, or exercised, or many other more productive activities that don't involve sitting on the couch feeling miserable.

Many of you might call me a fair-weather fan. I've supported this team through good times and bad for 20 years. I just needed to get these thoughts out to the people who may feel the same way.

 

Because you have faith in your team

[jasonluckydog]

Trump will make the NFL great again 

[hepcat]

2 hours ago, mc52beast said:

Ratings are down, many reasons why.

Piss poor officials

Piss poor play 

Colin Kaepernick 

Election

I have supported this team since its inception, they have probably shortened my life span by at least 10 years. No matter how bad it got, I never wavered. I'm at the point now where football just isn't that important, still love the team but spending quality time with my family that doesn't include sitting in front of a tv for 3.5 hours is now more important.

Having a talented team fresh off a Super Bowl appearance lose excruciating games is far worse than just a bad team like the Browns. Knowing the team is bad is easy to understand. This Panthers team is just inexplicable.