NFL venting time...

AXOLiz · #1 10-07-2002, 01:04 PM

I've been yelling about this all day at work. I'm hoping someone else has a good football-related vent too. I need to stop going to games because I end up mad.

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY, LET KELLY HOLCOMB PLAY!!!!!!!

I like Tim Couch. I do. I'm sad he got a concussion. Yet I, like all the other fans in the stadium, had to let out a cheer that just happened to occur while Couch was leaving the field. Was I happy he got hurt? No.

Was I thrilled beyond words that Holcomb was in because he actually manages to throw the ball and might actually help us drag ourselves out of the hole we're in? YES.

I understand why Couch is put in. I really do. But WHY DON'T THEY LET HOLCOMB PLAY ONE GAME AND SEE HOW HE DOES? AT THIS POINT IT CAN'T HURT. We lost to the Steelers. We lost to the Ravens. We should've easily had both, the way those two have been playing.

AND WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO RUN ANYTHING DOWN THE MIDDLE SINCE METCALF DID IT THAT ONE TIME AGES AGO. We have no running game. Throw the damn ball.

Maybe it's the fact that I'm running on 3 hours of sleep because I was at the game last night. Maybe it's the migraine I've had all weekend. Maybe it's my unrequited love for Kelly Holcomb. Maybe I won't be the only person who needs to yell about their football team. Maybe I'm bitter that we lost to both the Ravens and the Steelers.

Or maybe I'm frustrated that, because I'm from Cleveland, loving the Browns is in my blood. Kind of like hating the Steelers and anything attached to Art Modell.

Go Browns.

Hope you other football fans had a happier weekend than I did.

agger_rob · #2 10-07-2002, 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by AXOLiz

Hope you other football fans had a happier weekend than I did.

Three words for my vent:

St. Louis Rams

It's hard to have a good football weekend around here lately. What gives this year?

jonsagara · #3 10-07-2002, 01:58 PM

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Originally posted by AXOLiz
Hope you other football fans had a happier weekend than I did.

Go Niners!

I understand that some key Rams players were hurt, but it was still nice to beat them after losing in their last 6 meetings.

AXOLiz · #4 10-08-2002, 08:09 AM

I'm just sick of hearing about how crappy the Cleveland fans were on EVERY tv channel, every radio station, etc. And now Couch is saying he's going to play like every game's an away game. Way to alienate your fans.

You get paid how many millions of dollars to throw the damn ball? And then you get upset because the fans are mad? They weren't booing you, they were expecting a change after the second half and were pissed at Butch Davis because it didn't happen. Cleveland fans will put up with a losing football team if they're doing the best they can. But when you have one of the highest-ranked quarterbacks sitting on the bench and your first round draft pick FROM FOUR YEARS AGO can't get the job done, yeah, people are going to be pissed. And now they're getting more pissed because of all the whining and complaining that we "cheered when Couch got hurt." No, we were cheering for Holcomb, who still managed to get results with a hurt foot.

Maybe I'm not the most unbiased person every though, seeing as I love Kelly Holcomb.

mrblonde · #5 10-08-2002, 12:42 PM

Nothing against you personally, but it sure seemed to me that Cleveland started cheering when Couch was on the turf holding his knee than when Holcomb came out to relieve him. Anyway, I can empathize with you now that Holcombs hurt. Keep in mind that some quarterbacks arent going to do well on certain teams, and who starts is up to the head coach and GM. Believe me, I cheered as a Pittsburgh fan when Kordell was yanked, but I would have been against my own fellow fans if it had been because he was hurt.

UCFPhiDelt · #6 10-08-2002, 01:14 PM

I LOVE this season... GO FINS!

DeltaSigStan · #7 10-08-2002, 01:21 PM

Hey, I feel for Tim Couch. That jackass Cade McNown (Umm still playin for the Bears?) sent Tim Couch's girlfriend a NEW corvette or something, and of course she took the bait.

AXOLiz · #8 10-08-2002, 01:37 PM

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Originally posted by mrblonde
Nothing against you personally, but it sure seemed to me that Cleveland started cheering when Couch was on the turf holding his knee than when Holcomb came out to relieve him. Anyway, I can empathize with you now that Holcombs hurt. Keep in mind that some quarterbacks arent going to do well on certain teams, and who starts is up to the head coach and GM. Believe me, I cheered as a Pittsburgh fan when Kordell was yanked, but I would have been against my own fellow fans if it had been because he was hurt.

Yeah, it was just a pretty crappy situation overall. And I can only speak for myself and the people around me when I say that we were cheering for Holcomb. We couldn't really see who was hurt at first, we just saw that someone was injured but Holcomb was warming up. While we probably should've waited until we saw what was going on to start cheering for Holcomb, sometimes these things happen. I was hoping for a Steelers-style quarterback switch to happen, as were a lot of people, and it seems like all of us got way too excited at the wrong time.

I personally think it's horrible if anyone was in fact cheering because they were happy Couch was injured. I can't see how anyone could be happy seeing someone else's pain, whether they're on your rival team or your own. I can't see Cleveland fans or any other fans cheering if anyone, no matter what team, was hurt (unless Art Modell himself got taken out on accident, then I think there'd be some cheering from Cleveland). Maybe that's why I'm so quick to defend the people at the game - I just can't fathom why anyone would cheer if someone was hurt, so I've been assuming that 99.99% were cheering for Holcomb when no one really knows what everyone was thinking at the time.

It just struck me that this must be how the girls on "Sorority Life" feel. "I swear, that slap was totally taken out of context!!"