I Think I Am Done

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

One was because of Marino, and the second was that the Giants went with Hostetler over Phil Simms. I was like 10 and my loyalties ran deep, even though it was the right move due to Phil's age.

For the record, I am not picking a new team. I have actually grown to loathe the Giants almost as much as the Jets and Patriots. I just can't see the silver lining anymore, not even through the draft or free agency. Just gonna step away from football for awhile and replace it with soccer. I don't care if it makes sense, I refuse to call soccer "football".

Go Arsenal!

So basically you picked a team 1000 miles away rather than the home team because you wanted to root for a team that was currently winning and are going to bail on them when they aren't.

Sounds like a lot of out of town Cowboys, Steelers, and Yankee fans.

[MaineDolFan]

I've felt the same way you have, Edge.  Shit, I'm a Red Sox fan.  You don't think it was hard growing up as a Sox fan?    I covered the game in '03 when Boone's ball sailed into the night.  Talk about heartbreaking.  I think I've actually posted a couple "I don't know if I can do this anymore" threads about Miami myself.

Hang in there.  I'm a Sox fan, a Bruins fan...those two teams showed me something.  If THEY can turn their shit around, anyone can.  I mean, Christ.  Look at New England.  When we were kids, the only two teams in the league worse were Tampa and New Orleans.  People forget that.  Look at the Pats now.

Brighter days will come.  Hang in there, buddy.

[Dave Gray]

I don't think there's any shame in taking a break when you've just had enough.  After all, this is entertainment -- If it gets to the point that this hobby is causing more stress and discomfort than enjoyment, reduce your level of involvement.  I'm not "done" like you're done, but I've essentially stopped going to the game and made my focus on food, rather than football.  It's the only way I can still enjoy myself through this decade of misery.

[Brian Fein]

this hobby is causing more stress and discomfort than enjoyment, reduce your level of involvement. 

This is why I gave up my season tickets...

[MaineDolFan]

I watch the games, but the only live games I attend are Bruins games (and those are far and few between).  Live sports don't do it for me any longer, I'm much happier on my couch.  I can quickly stretch and go for a run after, or whatever, as soon as it's over. 

What I don't do any longer?  I don't buy any more stuff.  Period.  Hats, shirts, sweatshirts...anything.  I watch the games.  Read some articles.  But I no longer hinge on every word and have to have ever cool fleece that comes out.  Screw that.

[Brian Fein]

^^ Agreed.  I was getting ridiculed by the wife over the weekend for not having any Dolphins shirts.  I have a few "Special Teams" shirts, Web Weekend shirts, a AFC East Champions shirt, and a couple TDMMC T-shirts, but none that just say "Dolphins" with a logo.  She found that odd.  I didn't think much of it.

And now, given the current logo situation, I don't see that changing any time soon.

[CF DolFan]

I was offered 4 Dolphin tickets to the Bills game on the 40 yard home side, lower bowl, for $85 a piece and didn't take it. It's too easy to sit in A/C and eat wings instead of spending a whole day of it.  

I should have though as this was the first game we lost that pissed me off in years. It's always better to be around thousands of other similarly miserable people.

[Dave Gray]

^ I kinda see it the other way.

I was at the game.  It was brutally hot.  And the traffic situation is a mess and 95 was closed in one direction.  It was just a nightmare that took all day.  Had we won, I could've chalked it up to suffering for my team.  But it takes so much out of me to go to a game, spend all day baking in the ungodly sun, just to lay a turd and have work the next day.

In jest, I told my wife never to let me go again.

Edit: When I watch it at home and we stink up the joint, I just turn it off when it's over and go on with my life.  I don't have a 2-3 hour trek of misery to get home and cleaned up, exhausted.

[Phishfan]

I did hear it was a brutally hot day and people sitting on the visitor's side had thermometers reading 105 in that sunlight.

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

From what I saw on TV it was mostly empty seats in that place!!!!!

[Dave Gray]

I left my seats with 2 minutes left in the half because I was getting dizzy.  No joke.  Luckily, I was in club level and got to sit in the A/C and watch the last 2 mins on TV.  But seriously.  It's unbearable.

[Spider-Dan]

Homefield advantage!

Seriously, when they tried to move to the late game to reduce the impact of the heat, Dolphins fans everywhere complained.  Damned if you do...

[Phishfan]

^^^And most of them probably have never been on the sunny side of the stadium during one of those intense days.

[Dave Gray]

Homefield advantage!

Seriously, when they tried to move to the late game to reduce the impact of the heat, Dolphins fans everywhere complained.  Damned if you do...

I totally get how the team is screwed either way.  The heat is so incredibly intense that I can barely sit there, much less to play in it.  I think they have to get some kind of partial canvas covering to make it bearable.

They are in a really tough spot.  It's more than just uncomfortable.  It was dangerously hot.

[CF DolFan]

9-11-2005 The widely underdog Dolphins pounded the Denver Broncos 34-10 giving Nick Saban a win in his opening game. "We knew it was going to be difficult to come in here and deal with the elements in their backyard," Shanahan said....

But as often happens in early season games in Miami, the visitors wilted in the sweltering weather. Denver cornerbacks Darrent Williams and Lenny Walls went to the sideline with cramps, and the Dolphins scored touchdowns on three consecutive possessions in the second half.

"We're in this heat for 2½ hours every day, and we used it to our advantage today," McMichael said.

I was sitting on the 20 yard line on the visitors side. They were carrying fans out of the stadium left and right but the Dolphins were kicking butt!!! Jason Taylor said he got an IV at half time and 2 after the game. It was definitely an advantage that we used to start off strong every year and no one complained because it was "our" advantage.