Disappointment: The Raiders' fans and media are taking it like men

[ItsGood_ItsGood]

Flashback to last year at this time: The morning after the Super Bowl, one of the first things I did, after making sure I didn't dream the whole thing and take a half a bottle of aspirin, was get on line and bathe myself in the misery of all the Patriots doubters on sports pages across the nation.

First, St. Louis. The sun had barely risen on the Rams' disappointment when the Post-Dispatch was running a reader poll about why the Rams lost. Warner? The prevent defense? Not using Faulk? Nothing about the Patriots out playing them. Nothing. What a joy to wallow in their arrogant misery.

Then it was off to the New York papers, particularly the ones that carried the "Belichicken" headlines. They were calling it one of the great upsets and coaching jobs of all times. I delighted in their crow-eating. Cleveland, the city who embraced Albert Belle, who hate BB more than they hate Saddam, handed him the respect he so clearly earned.

Then, Oakland. Oh the pleasure...Tarry, delight, so seldom met. They suffered, they whined, they complained. They should have won. It was taken away from them. No mention of the 50 or so opportunities they had against the Pats. Or how Brady threw for 300+ yards in a maelstrom against them. No mention of how they blew the home field advantage. Nor of how they would have been annihilated by Pittsburgh or by St. Louis. Wall to wall coverage of how they were done wrong.

So imagine my disappointment this week when I logged onto the Oakland papers this week and found...nothing of the kind. Like the Grinch with his hand to his ear waiting for the Whos to cry boo hoo hoo...I heard the columnists were actually...blaming the Raiders. They even said that the Bucs beat them. I read the columns over again just to make sure, but, yes, this was not the fault of the NFL or the refs or the weather or anyone but the Black and Silver.

Of course, the when the Whos woke to find no Xmas had come, they didn't set fire to vehicles and loot a McDonald's, so I got that going for me.

[pookie]

Originally posted by ItsGood_ItsGood
Flashback to last year at this time: The morning after the Super Bowl, one of the first things I did, after making sure I didn't dream the whole thing and take a half a bottle of aspirin, was get on line and bathe myself in the misery of all the Patriots doubters on sports pages across the nation.

First, St. Louis. The sun had barely risen on the Rams' disappointment when the Post-Dispatch was running a reader poll about why the Rams lost. Warner? The prevent defense? Not using Faulk? Nothing about the Patriots out playing them. Nothing. What a joy to wallow in their arrogant misery.

Then it was off to the New York papers, particularly the ones that carried the "Belichicken" headlines. They were calling it one of the great upsets and coaching jobs of all times. I delighted in their crow-eating. Cleveland, the city who embraced Albert Belle, who hate BB more than they hate Saddam, handed him the respect he so clearly earned.

Then, Oakland. Oh the pleasure...Tarry, delight, so seldom met. They suffered, they whined, they complained. They should have won. It was taken away from them. No mention of the 50 or so opportunities they had against the Pats. Or how Brady threw for 300+ yards in a maelstrom against them. No mention of how they blew the home field advantage. Nor of how they would have been annihilated by Pittsburgh or by St. Louis. Wall to wall coverage of how they were done wrong.

So imagine my disappointment this week when I logged onto the Oakland papers this week and found...nothing of the kind. Like the Grinch with his hand to his ear waiting for the Whos to cry boo hoo hoo...I heard the columnists were actually...blaming the Raiders. They even said that the Bucs beat them. I read the columns over again just to make sure, but, yes, this was not the fault of the NFL or the refs or the weather or anyone but the Black and Silver.

Of course, the when the Whos woke to find no Xmas had come, they didn't set fire to vehicles and loot a McDonald's, so I got that going for me.

It's kind of sad that they're taking it that way. I've really learned to appreciate the Raider's fans excuses and their blame game. I tend to think more about the cars being set on fire, the rocks and bottles thrown, the arrests and the vandalism..... I loved the sight of the dressed up freaks with spikes and studs sitting with their heads hanging last Sunday. I'd hate for all of my well groomed hatred to be spoiled by civility on their part! I'll have none of it.
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Originally posted by ItsGood_ItsGood
So imagine my disappointment this week when I logged onto the Oakland papers this week and found...nothing of the kind. Like the Grinch with his hand to his ear waiting for the Whos to cry boo hoo hoo...I heard the columnists were actually...blaming the Raiders. They even said that the Bucs beat them. I read the columns over again just to make sure, but, yes, this was not the fault of the NFL or the refs or the weather or anyone but the Black and Silver.

Of course, the when the Whos woke to find no Xmas had come, they didn't set fire to vehicles and loot a McDonald's, so I got that going for me.


Pookie and I bathed in the misery alright. We went over to the chat room on the official Raiders site. Quite a scene over there I must say. They were being flooded by Bucs and non-Raiders coming for their pound of flesh. I almost felt bad for them...then I jumped into the fray.

I spammed and I spammed until I could SPAM no more. I talked trash, smack, Jive and even a little Hebrew just for the hell of it. I took away their tooters, their hooters, flimboozles and bells. Why, I even stole the Roast Beast....

I did some of my finest taunting and through it all the Raiders were remarkably well behaved...so I taunted them some more. My theory is that the margin of defeat was just too great. Had they lost a close one the pain could have been exquisite, but instead I had to settle for merely delightful.

And you are right: try as you might the flaming cars and broken windows, dozens of arrests and general chaos suggest that not all of the little Hows-down-in-How-Vile took defeat with equal amounts of grace.

[ItsGood_ItsGood]

"This is it! This is the part I told ya about! Where he hold onto 'em by the nose, and we kick 'em in the ass!!!"
-Gen. George Patton

"If everybody is thinking alike,
then somebody isn't thinking. " -- also Gen George Patton.

I'm not sure why I am quoting him. It just seemed like the thing to do.