I'm Done Watching The Skins This Year

[djnemo65]

What's so depressing for me was that this was that season-ending game where hope finally disappears. Later this year than in past seasons, sure, but that just made the pang that much more intense. You know, you nurture these teams through free agency and training camp, you read about the practices and the new players and attitudes, you listen to the more vocal leaders earnestly communicate high expectations, you argue with friends about why the media expectations are too low, why they are just kicking Snyder when he's down, you trust in Gibbs, and although you maybe don't tell people so as not to look foolish, deep down inside you think that they could be really really good - that this could be, The Year. And then they break your heart. The bottom drops out. And a year's worth of emotional attachment fueled by a lifetime's worth of passionate fandom is suddenly left without an outlet. Its just like breaking up with a girl. Is that it, you ask? All that time invested and now its just, over?

Its a tough feeling that is only made worthwhile by the comparative high of winning. Unfortunately, us Skins fans have been getting shafted on that for quite sometime. But we'll be back next year and the year after that. Why I don't know, but that's just the way we are.