Mr B wrote:bwgood77 wrote:Mr B wrote:If you’re all for participation trophies that’s cool. It’s a free country. You’re free to celebrate losing if you want.
Do you feel it's better to get to the SB and lose or not get there at all?
The goal for every team is the win SB. The Lombardi Trophy is the prize and you get to hold bragging rights until your eliminated the next season. There’s only 1 winner and that’s why it’s special. Everyone is trying to be that 1 winner. You don’t get to call yourself a champion if you don’t win, that’s the rule.
Losing at any point in the playoffs is still losing. Now you can have fun moments during the season and the whole regular season itself can be fun to watch but if you don’t win the Super Bowl you’re still a loser.
Take the Lions for example. They had a great regular season. Their fans had a ton of fun this season. This WAS supposed to be their season. They were thinking Super Bowl or bust! Do you think their fans would feel any better if they lost next week instead of last week? There’s only 1 winner.
Yes, their fans would have felt great and had a great time watching them win 2 playoff games. Young ones might remember them 40 years from now. Experiences watching your team shape you as your fan.
For some fans, all they want to do is go brag on a message board about how their team won 5 Super Bowls 30-50 years ago and bash fans of teams who haven't won any. But for most, it's much more than that. But yeah, if you are a player, it's a big deal, so if you are a player I can see maybe that being the only thing that defines your contributions, though I'm sure some may define their careers in different ways, and teams they were on. But of course, to boil things down simply, everyone who makes the playoffs ends their season in a loss except for one, so there is obviously only one champion. Of course players can't jump teams like you and BJJ when they kicked knocked out so they can brag. But you are not telling anyone anything they don't know when you continue to state only 1 person wins the SB and everyone else doesn't ultimately achieve what their end goal. I think everyone over the age of 5 or so knows that.