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Ok, I admit it. We came up short. There were turnovers where there shouldn’t have been and quite possibly some major confusion/indecision where it all should have been worked out. The “better forming” team that day won. I get it Packers fans, I get it.
But here’s one thing that I don’t understand, and quite frankly, never will. People are almost ashamed of announcing the allegiance to a team until something great happens. Leading up to this Super Bowl I could count on one hand how many Packers fans that lived around me and that I worked with. Now suddenly those same exact people who had no allegiance whatsoever are now life-long Cheeseheads have been for years. This leads me to believe one of two things; you don’t have what it takes to stand up for what you believe in, a gutless wonder. Or you’re a wagon-jumper, aka front runner.
Waking up Monday morning I expected to be bombarded with hate mail, negative Facebook comments, and even voicemail messages slandering the Steelers dynasty. How we got so close and failed once again. How Green Bay was such a superior team in every aspect that we never had a shot. And just as I anticipated I couldn’t get away from the “Steelers Suck” emails and “Green Bay Had It All The Way” texts. Tell me this then, Mr. Naysayer, how is it that in games where it looks like we’re going to lose we always find ways to come back and make it extremely close? I could see if it was one time a season, but four or five games including the biggest spectacle of them all? Seems to be a trend here…
I expected it to be rubbed in, and I was ready for it. But what I didn’t really expect was the calm, cool, and collected tone of the loss showed by the entire Nation. I’m sure there’s a few people here and there that can go on 60 minute rants about how the weather may have been a factor or the refs were in on some scheme to screw us over. Or maybe that Big Ben was payed off to throw those interceptions and Troy didn’t run as fast. Those kinds of fans are expected anywhere, no bigger place than Dallas. But I think people are failing to see the bigger picture here. At the beginning of the season no one ever expected us to come this far. It all started with Ben’s suspension. By most analysts’ accounts we were dead in the water before even running the first play. Dixon couldn’t throw well, and Leftwich was just not the type of player that we thought he’d be. But we got through it. Then injury hit us like a Mack truck taking our entire O line out of the equation. We handled that too. And every single time someone decided to tell us that we couldn’t do something, we got right back up and showed just how badass we were. That’s dedication. That’s heart. That’s what this season came down to.
For anyone who’s a diehard fan of this organization this feeling is nothing new. We all know the sting of coming so close and having it taken from us. But in spite of everything that’s happened we have held together, a cohesive unit, a family unlike any other. We’ll go on tomorrow, and the next day, and the one after until next season (presuming there is one). Sure we’ll look back on this moment, but not with disdain and hatred. We accomplished something no other team had, and the tradition will continue.
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But here’s one thing that I don’t understand, and quite frankly, never will. People are almost ashamed of announcing the allegiance to a team until something great happens. Leading up to this Super Bowl I could count on one hand how many Packers fans that lived around me and that I worked with. Now suddenly those same exact people who had no allegiance whatsoever are now life-long Cheeseheads have been for years. This leads me to believe one of two things; you don’t have what it takes to stand up for what you believe in, a gutless wonder. Or you’re a wagon-jumper, aka front runner.
Waking up Monday morning I expected to be bombarded with hate mail, negative Facebook comments, and even voicemail messages slandering the Steelers dynasty. How we got so close and failed once again. How Green Bay was such a superior team in every aspect that we never had a shot. And just as I anticipated I couldn’t get away from the “Steelers Suck” emails and “Green Bay Had It All The Way” texts. Tell me this then, Mr. Naysayer, how is it that in games where it looks like we’re going to lose we always find ways to come back and make it extremely close? I could see if it was one time a season, but four or five games including the biggest spectacle of them all? Seems to be a trend here…
I expected it to be rubbed in, and I was ready for it. But what I didn’t really expect was the calm, cool, and collected tone of the loss showed by the entire Nation. I’m sure there’s a few people here and there that can go on 60 minute rants about how the weather may have been a factor or the refs were in on some scheme to screw us over. Or maybe that Big Ben was payed off to throw those interceptions and Troy didn’t run as fast. Those kinds of fans are expected anywhere, no bigger place than Dallas. But I think people are failing to see the bigger picture here. At the beginning of the season no one ever expected us to come this far. It all started with Ben’s suspension. By most analysts’ accounts we were dead in the water before even running the first play. Dixon couldn’t throw well, and Leftwich was just not the type of player that we thought he’d be. But we got through it. Then injury hit us like a Mack truck taking our entire O line out of the equation. We handled that too. And every single time someone decided to tell us that we couldn’t do something, we got right back up and showed just how badass we were. That’s dedication. That’s heart. That’s what this season came down to.
For anyone who’s a diehard fan of this organization this feeling is nothing new. We all know the sting of coming so close and having it taken from us. But in spite of everything that’s happened we have held together, a cohesive unit, a family unlike any other. We’ll go on tomorrow, and the next day, and the one after until next season (presuming there is one). Sure we’ll look back on this moment, but not with disdain and hatred. We accomplished something no other team had, and the tradition will continue.
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