What was I feeling at the end of this game? Oddly, nothing.

[Wolfhound45]

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I just seriously felt absolutely nothing at the end of that game. I wasn't sad or mad or anything. Just numb.

Ditto. Could not have said it better.

From my perspective, it is hard to get excited about your team when it looks like on the field they are just going through the motions.

Must be what it is like to be a Browns fan after the 2nd game of the season.

[Jooser]

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$$$ post RB. It's so darned funny. We had my daughter's high school volley ball dinner and award ceremony around 5 last night. I got ready quick and was sitting on my bed watching the end of the game. My wife was in the bathroom doing her hair or makeup or whatever and she kept looking at me. She was like, what are you grinning and shaking your head about? I said that I know we'll blow this somehow. Through that last 7 or 8 minutes, all I could do is shake my head and grin. I was thinking, this is absolutely surreal. How in the HELL has this team morphed into what it is now? At the end, I simply put on my shoes and went to the dinner and laughed and enjoyed myself. At the dinner, my wife and I were paired up with another couple at a table. The husband starts talking about the Steelers. Turns out, he's a huge Steelers lover like yours truly. He kept saying, I knew it, I don't even care now, it's an emotional investment without return this season. Wow, how true a statement is that?

BTW, welcome back Angry Asian, I missed you!

[Jooser]

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ok. I'll stop

[MeetJoeGreene]

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For the first time since I can remember, I couldn't finish watching the game.

I couldn't put myself through that pain in real-time again.

I just knew they were going to blow it. I just did.

Our defense needs a fire enema.

[Jooser]

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For the first time since I can remember, I couldn't finish watching the game.

I couldn't put myself through that pain in real-time again.

I just knew they were going to blow it. I just did.

Our defense needs a fire enema.

[Wolfhound45]

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Nothing against Jom112 (who is a complete and total class act, hands down), but it is pretty sad day in Steeler Country when a Bengals fan is posting on planetsteelers.com and trying to console Steelers fans after a loss.

How low we have sunk.

[BURGH86STEEL]

Re: What was I feeling at the end of this game? Oddly, nothing.

In the midst of the 4 game losing streak, I have run the gamut of emotion in this past month.

After the loss to the Bengals, I felt angry.

We had a chance to avenge a close loss at their place earlier in the season, and take control of the division. When they swept us on our own turf, taking the lead in the division and any potential tiebreakers away from us, I was royally ticked off.

After the loss to the Chiefs, I felt confused.

Just trying to wrap my mind around how we could seemingly dominate them for the entire game, then end up in overtime and blow it, was thoroughly befuddling to me.

After the loss to the Ravens, I felt depressed.

Going in with our 3rd string QB starting, expectations weren't all that high, but when Dixon started showing promise and actually got us the lead in the 4th quarter, hope emerged. Losing how we did after that threw me into the doldrums.

After the loss to the Radiers, I felt apathetic.

I have never felt this way after a loss. I wasn't apathetic at all during the game. I was screaming like a madman, and when the ref threw that flag for unnecessary roughness on the forearm-to-chest hit that they thought was helmet-to-helmet, I threw down my hat as hard as I ever had during a Steeler game. I just seriously felt absolutely nothing at the end of that game. I wasn't sad or mad or anything. Just numb. And it had nothing to do with the temperature outside.

I don't think I was the only one either. I didn't see much in the line of crying or screaming or any other emotional reaction from anyone else after the game either. We just seemed to walk out of the stadium like emotionless zombies with every last bit of passion sucked out of our bodies.

It was an odd feeling, and unlike anything I have experienced before following a Steeler game. For what it's worth, I fully expect to watch the Browns game this Thursday with intense interest as always, and I will continue to contribute to the Heinz bedlam for the Packers and Ravens games this month, so I did not lose my nerve or my heart yesterday...it was just an empty feeling that took over when the clock hit zero.

I am glad that we get to go out there again this Thursday night. I need a new feeling in regard to my football team, and I wouldn't want to have to wait until Sunday.

I will no longer allow myself to get angry or down over the things in sports that I can't control. I've learned over the years not to get to high with the highs and to lows with the lows. It has been a tough year for Steelers fans up to this point. It's really been a season of a play here or there and we win. I know that we still have a solid team that should be a solid contender for at least the next 2 to 3 years. I also don't believe this team needs to make radical changes to be among the NFL's elite teams.

I will admit that one thing rubbed me the wrong way while watching the game at a sports bar here in Philly. The Eagles fans let out a loud cheer when the Raiders scored that final TD. Some Eagles fans can be real A holes. As if they cheer for a team that won one SB let a lone 6.

[DukieBoy]

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My emotions in this game ran from
uninspired
to
cynical
to
apathetic.

It's epidemic, or so it seems.

[Jom112]

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[url="http://deadspin.com/5423289/the-five-stages-of-football-grief--jamboroo-week-14"]http://deadspin.com/5423289/the-five-st ... oo-week-14[/url]

Article made me think of this thread...

[SteelAbility]

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The final stage of Steelers doldrums, after all playoff hope is completely lost, is marked by intensity ... rooting for the Patriots to lose.