The Road to Glendale: NFL Playoffs discussion

[Jackalope]

Thanks Chas, all of that is true. I am a new fan of football. I started about 3 Seahawk games in last year. Wanted to share it with Dreaming, so I put effort into learning the game. I know I was extremely lucky that I chose a year my team goes to the SB and wins. Now, I know the agony of defeat as well. LOL

No, the agony of defeat is an extended stretch of losing seasons - like we're used to having. Losing in the last 20 seconds of the Super Bowl? That's a *highlight*. :p

That's not so bad, I've been a Seahawks fan since 1983. I was less disappointed by the SB loss in 2005 than I was by the struggles that followed. This team might still contend for a few more years, but winning one makes it sting a lot less if they begin to fade again.

Fan since 1977. Agreed, seeing the team disintegrate after the SB loss to the Steelers was far more painful than the loss was. But you know - for most of my time as a fan (and yours too), we had never made it to the big game. All we really had was *that one year* when we made it to the AFC championship game after the 1983 season and lost to the damn Raiders, and then a drought of mediocre to bad seasons. Now, in the last little over a decade, we've got three NFC Championships, and one league championship.

This has been a good decade+ for Seahawks football, that's for sure.

Depending on what happens in the off season, next year could be painful.