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zigguratlabs viewing of the Patriots-Chargers game, many Patriots fans were getting jubilant, which is just fine. Then some started talking about how the Super Bowl was "ours", which was nothing short of hubris.
"Do not become Yankees fans!", I cautioned them. "Do not act like the championship is ours by right. We still have to win it." They sobered a little, and they paid lip-service to my prophecy of doom, but then they went back to celebrating (which, at the time, was still appropriate, because we had just won).
But then, when the Giants upset the Packers in Green Bay, many (other) Patriots fans started using the word "destiny". Once again, hubris served up by the ladle-full. In a recent article about Microsoft buying Yahoo! to take on Google, the accompanying picture had Microsoft represented by the Patriots, and Google represented by the Giants.
Red Sox fans should know better. The point was not to become the gloaters. New York fans were despicable because they believed they deserved the championship by right, not by earning it. We were better than New York fans because we knew that we had to earn it. And we were hungry enough to do so.
But the New York fans are getting hungry. Go take a look at today's Sinfest.
Look familiar, Boston fans? Does this look anything like how you felt in February of 2002 when the Pats beat the heavily-favored Rams?
The despicable Yankees have now gone seven seasons without a World Series victory. While we may duly smirk at an organization which has done its level best to buy championships and failed, take a look at the Yankee fans on the street and in the stadium: they're getting that hungry look. They're frustrated, they're starting to chant out the opening line-ups at the start of their games, they're actually paying attention to each game. They're even attending games after a post-season berth is clinched.
They are becoming us.
Hopefully, this Super Bowl loss will keep us from becoming what we hated about them.
zigguratlabs viewing of the Patriots-Chargers game, many Patriots fans were getting jubilant, which is just fine. Then some started talking about how the Super Bowl was "ours", which was nothing short of hubris."Do not become Yankees fans!", I cautioned them. "Do not act like the championship is ours by right. We still have to win it." They sobered a little, and they paid lip-service to my prophecy of doom, but then they went back to celebrating (which, at the time, was still appropriate, because we had just won).
But then, when the Giants upset the Packers in Green Bay, many (other) Patriots fans started using the word "destiny". Once again, hubris served up by the ladle-full. In a recent article about Microsoft buying Yahoo! to take on Google, the accompanying picture had Microsoft represented by the Patriots, and Google represented by the Giants.
Red Sox fans should know better. The point was not to become the gloaters. New York fans were despicable because they believed they deserved the championship by right, not by earning it. We were better than New York fans because we knew that we had to earn it. And we were hungry enough to do so.
But the New York fans are getting hungry. Go take a look at today's Sinfest.
Look familiar, Boston fans? Does this look anything like how you felt in February of 2002 when the Pats beat the heavily-favored Rams?
The despicable Yankees have now gone seven seasons without a World Series victory. While we may duly smirk at an organization which has done its level best to buy championships and failed, take a look at the Yankee fans on the street and in the stadium: they're getting that hungry look. They're frustrated, they're starting to chant out the opening line-ups at the start of their games, they're actually paying attention to each game. They're even attending games after a post-season berth is clinched.
They are becoming us.
Hopefully, this Super Bowl loss will keep us from becoming what we hated about them.
