This is for all the Bucs fans...One Buc Nation BABY!! :)?

This was posted by a person on the Bucs message board and I wanted to share this with you guys since I believe that it is the pure TRUTH!



Being A Fan Isn't Fun Anymore, And It's Not Just The Losing...



I'm probably biting off more than I can chew, but when did it all get so complicated and negative?



I always thought it was: the ownership pays the GM to build the team and the Coach to run it. All parties try to build the best team they can with their resources and talent. Then the team competes. And we cheer regardless. If the team does well, the GM and Coach get big contracts and raises. If the team does poorly, the GM and Coach get a few years (two at least, usually at least three) to get it up to speed. If they can't, a new GM and/or Coach are selected by the owners, and we start over. And all the time, we cheer, and groan, and have a drink, and high five, and have a good time even when we're having a bad time.



Now, half the fanbase seems convinced our ownership has no interest in winning, and half of them probably will never change their mind about it. Most of us just got done hating the old coach, just in time to hate the new coach for different reasons. People were conviced our coach would fail before he coached a game, and feel vindicated after less than half of a season. People convinced he would do a good job feel ashamed for having optimism. People just hoping for the best are dismissed as simpletons.



Everything is dissected, with a heaping dose of anger, in real time. A three hour game brings forth hundreds of message board threads with dozens of responses each, most of them nasty in tone or spirit. On the way to work, we listen to men who are paid to make us angry about sports for the purpose of getting angry about sports. We're never happy. We're always angry at someone if things aren't going perfectly. Great moments give us seconds of joy, but lousy ones bother us for six days and twenty hours...or longer. We fight and obsess over roster moves that will never matter to the outcome of a single game. We talk about what should have been done, because we're all experts. And lord help our front office if we turn out to be right, and they turn out to be wrong.



Something that's supposed to be fun is manipulated by the media into something not fun for a profit. Something that's supposed to be fun is manipulated by our own psyches and misplaced senses of self into something not fun. Something that would be fun if thought about for a day a week becomes a source of stress over seven.



Football is a game - a past-time. Something to bring us joy and make us FORGET how much life can suck!



And now, here we are, probably our darkest times in awhile (since the early 1990s, at the very least). Optimism is mocked joylessly. Efforts to support the coach are mocked joylessly. Because he's losing, he's treated as an inarticulate dullard, and his energy and enthusiasm are used against him. We pat ourselves on the back for our superiority over him, and over the owners that hired him. Because our coordinators are unable to turn a less than top talented roster into gold, they're bums, and our coach is an even bigger dullard for hiring them.



I'm as guilty as all of this as anyone. More than most in some of these respects. I'm 12th all time in posts for a reason. I listen to ESPN (though I try to avoid the frothing madmen they have on). I dissect it all like anyone else. And it can be fun, or at least a good way to kill time. But not when it's nothing but handwringing negativity, or scorn for people who don't become negative. There are reasons to be negative - I can be among the most negative here - but at times like this, there's very little payoff or orginality to be gleaned from it. In other words, it doesn't take a genius to talk about how much we suck and how lousy everyone associated with the team is.



Losing isn't as much fun as winning. But it's still football! Sixteen Sundays a year only! Where would you rather be? We're at the very first steps of a rebuilding journey that was never going to bear fruit in a couple of months. We knew that going in. Why are we so hand-wringy about it NOW? Because we couldn't score another 4 points against the Redskins? Because we allowed a late TD against the Panthers? That's the difference between 2-4 and 0-6. If we were 2-4, many more would not be missing the forest for the trees. Is that worth being miserable? The win or wins will come, and many more will come next year. AND WE KNOW IT.



I had fun watching Sunday's game. I was at a bar, having a nice burger, not thinking about my stupid job or my credit rating, cheering on the good moments and trying to take every play in and of itself. I need to work hard to do that in years like this one, but it's more than worth it.



I guess, if you take nothing else away from this (besides the opportunity to call me names, as I'm sure some of our resident geniuses will choose to do), take this away: you're noThis is for all the Bucs fans...One Buc Nation BABY!! :)?
The Bucs sucks right now.This is for all the Bucs fans...One Buc Nation BABY!! :)?
I agree, im a pats fan but have a love of the bucs threw family.



Its a waiting game, morris needs to work out who the future is. Go with Cadiliac, freeman, rookies not vets. the bucs need direction.



Whats the worst that can happen? we lose ANOTHER.



Get freeman in there, get him some snaps and game time experience for next year.





Draft well and the future could be alright, Aqib tallib has established himself, so has cadilac, bryant and piscetlli.



Or second option is bring back; Johnson, brooks, allstott, galloway, dunn ;)