I can understand it completely. I became a Card fan when I moved here in 93 (first time I lived in a city/area with it's own team, since I don't count LA and would be happy to never see LA again, ever.)
Longtime fans spent so many futile years backing and loving this team, that the euphoria at having an actual, competitive organisation was almost too much to bear. And then to see it being eroded and seemingly snatched away made the "fall from grace" even harder to bear. We only had a brief glimpse at something we used to just dream about... and that glimpse was enough, we want it back and simply have no more patience for incompetence (Amos, Betcher, O-line coaching) and cronyism (BA last couple of years).
People are on here bitching, NOT because they loathe it, they are on here bitching because they love it (possibly too much)
All good points.
I think I did a poor job with my point.
I want the team to succeed too, and I have my comments and criticisms.
But there is a difference between complaining when the team is having a 10 win season, and they lose once and you rail on the team from that point on, and complaining when the team is 5-11, or 3-13.
This team has its warts, and the plan this organization had going into this season was a poor one. There is no doubt about that.
The complaints , I am talking about, I have read and seen lately, and this is my opinion and interpretation, is a damnation of this team, whether it wins 10 games or wins 2. Complaints about players that are not only the best players on the team, but in some cases top 5 in their positions in the league. And if stats, and information in print get in the way of proving these complaints and pining wrong ? Attack the people, places and things within the organization on a personal level with speculation about their personalities, and what is "going on behind the scenes".
At that point, I start to question why is that person wasting so much time on something they loathe ? Because to take your complaints to that level ? It brings into question what in the heck is going on there. I have no want to sit here and read about how someone wants to stop other's from being a fan and enjoying the Cardinals organization. Or in other words, I am not going to have much patience for people who are going to shame me for enjoying the team whose message board I am on.
The NFL is a roller coast, you are up some years, and down the next. No one wants the "Same ol'Cardinals", but I do not think this organization is even close to that mess. C
Complaints are part of being a fan, but I have been on boards like this for almost 20 years, and this year set the bar for going way way way out of the way to prove something negative about the very core of the team and organization.
