The Perils Of Having A Dumpster Fire Team
One of the things I didn’t really appreciate when the Giants were middling to playoff contenders was how you don’t constantly have to field the same questions from randos. They’d happen, sure, but it was never all that bad and certainly not as irritating. I have found a new respect for fans of perpetual or somewhat substantial dumpster fires. It is very irritating to basically have every other football fan under the sun talk to you about the same crap over and over.
Every person who kind of follows football and who knows I am a Giants fan has essentially asked me about this. It’s gotten to the point where I have shared my opinion on the Giants offseason moves enough times that I’d rather talk about literally any other team. Lets talk about the Bengals. What’s going on there? They seem like they’ve got issues. No, I am not happy the Giants drafted Daniel Jones. I have no real opinion on how I expect him to do because I haven’t seen the dude play professional football yet. Yes, I am unhappy we traded Beckham. Can we move on now? I’ve got preseason to be depressed about.
The worst part is par for the course with these types of things: everyone else has only talked to you about it. You have had the misfortune of talking to everyone else. When that guy I see once a year at a party I’m not even that interested in being at asks me for my Beckham thoughts, it’s because I’m the source of conversation. But I’ve had to deal with a hundred of him asking the same thing. Social interaction is garbage let’s lock everyone in Matrix-tubes and only allow us to communicate through memes.
coming from a lifelong Cleveland fan, you’d better just hope it doesn’t last two decades, bro
Came here to say the same thing. The part of the social contract that says you can’t punch strangers for being nosy annoying jerks is… probably a good idea, but still annoying.
Since about 2010, I’ve stopped getting questions and mostly just been getting sympathy or derisive laughter. I do feel for Dave though. Having to field questions about a GM who is either (A) stupid; or (B) following a plan that requires patience in an impatient sport is annoying. Gettleman so far appears to be in camp (A), too, which just makes it worse.
As an eagles fan that now lives in jacksonville, I have a lot of respect for die hard fans of dumpster fire teams. The eagles sucked for 2 decades, still sold out every game. The jags sucked for a couple years and had to remove 10,000 seats from the stadium so they could have a chance of meeting the filled seat percentage needed to actually have their games be on tv. Still haven’t met a single jags fan yet who actually knows what their team’s fight song is without resorting to google. Browns fans know their team sucks, and still show up on gameday anyway, and I respect that.
So Dave, how ’bout them Patriots, Steelers and/or Cowboys?
Cowboys? You lump a team that’s won 3 playoff games in the last 22 years in with the pats and steelers?
Yes, because the fit in perfectly with the category of teams Dave hates with a passion.
*sidles up to the bar*
“Bill’s fan here. The usual.”
“But they aren’t *dumpster fire* bad…”
“I’ll *tell* you when that isn’t enough!”
Try being the only Bills fan around in Boston. That was me for about six months last year
My dude,
I feel your pain. But when I’m asked about trading O’hell @#$’em, my reaction is a bit different than yours.
https://youtu.be/-iZW909WuB4?t=16
You’ve still got the prime years of SaQuad to waste, so there’s that. Would that make the Giants a more modern day version of the Lions….? Dude, have another 2 dozen drinks on the house.
Except for one thing, the Giants at least has a somewhat better chance of coming back than the Lions ever will. No idea how they did it but they managed to have a drought worse than the Eagles even before last year. Why Gettleman didn’t go with Haskins I’ll never know.
Lol.
I just realize some of the wordings got mixed up but still, yeah.
Yeah but a “potential” Giants and Lions comparison in the same sentence. I’ve come to personally believe that Dave likes bomb pops just because of Eli. If Jones is a bust, we may just get a comic where he is the bomb pop that goes boom. (Jones or Dave, depending on how bad things get….)
Or the firecracker scene from Naked Gun.
At least you have a team. I’ve watched the Bidwells and Kronke shaft my city.
In some respects, this is much the same as the life of the left-handed. “Oh, you’re left handed! Did you know…”
I feel ya, back when I was one of a handful of Vikings fans in Arizona, I got this all the time. Now being back in Minnesota, we’ve already beat the team to death and are now taking about everything else.
Don’t forget Nate Solder make 17 Million to do a middling job at best, or Golden Tate getting suspended. OR the 33 million in dead money hahahaha… *sobs*
Welcome, friend, to the feeling that is “rooting for Detroit”
Embrace the suck. Enjoy it. Let it keep you warm at night.
There’s still Antonio Brown to make fun of. Seriously it writes itself.
So, let’s ask an entirely different football question of which I am absolutely certain you have an opinion….How do you feel about the Eagles being the #1 ranked team on this year’s madden game? Do you think it’s deserved? Why or why not?
Let me tell you a little story I like to call, “Being a Broncos fan when Tebow was on the team.”
It goes a little something like, “SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP. I DON’T BUY MY OWN COATS SO ALL I HAVE ARE BRONCOS GIFTS BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.”
The cult of Tebow lives on.
this is the case with literally every small-talk subject ever
“whats your major”
“how is work”
“when are you having kids”
“so michael vick huh”
all shit that everyone else asks just you about
all shit youve answered a million times and would rather jam forks in your eyes than answer again
How would you feel if they traded Beckham for 30 to 50 feral hogs? (Does this fit your meme criteria?)