On the grabbing thing: what I mean the blatant grabbing was on the Colts' last drive, where the receivers were past 5 yards, standing in range to catch a first down pass when the Pat secondary had literal handfuls of their jerseys. Manning made the holding motion with his arm, sure a flag would come, but no. This happened until they were out of downs. Of couse if he had not thrown so many ints it would not have come to that. He was damn lucky to still have a shot that late, and to have it sort of taken from them with the dirty play sucked. It wasn't normal and the announcers made comments. Same with the play in the Eagles-Panthers game.
On the 'gloating' thing: Well your team has been in the playoffs for a couple weeks now, were you not happy then, or only after they won so you can brag, that's how it looked. Several of us have been here discussing the playoffs and all the teams since we found out the matchups, and taking our guesses and making comments, so it looked like some fans only came to brag after it was over and wouldn't venture a bet before. Sorry if I was wrong about you
But yeah I'm depressed that at least one of my teams didn't go {Colts and Eagles are 2 of my faves, and the Vikes who screwed up down the stretch} so I could dig out of my miserable, dark and pathetic existence for a week or so saving all the stories and pics and havingn something to brighten my day. Yeah so it feels better to have someone to blame. So shoot me. And fuck football. I've been a devoted fan since I was a kid but it's too emotional and never pays off for me. I can't take it anymore.
I guess it's because I've always been somebody who lived and died with every play,every game, my heart pounding until my chest hurts, that I do kinda feel resentment toward people who don't really follow the game that close just come in to go 'oh whoopee we rock' at the end. And that's just how I feel and I'm not going to lie about it. But I won't post here anymore, I'm not even going to click on this forum, so no need to chew me out.
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