Do's and dont's. Rules to live by. Survival skills. Here they are.
1. Quickly learn to identify the gang signs. By post title. By poster posse. By buzz words. Hang with your own and scroll-burn through or completely avoid those other shmucks.
a) Trolls. Anything with "Bidwill" and "cheap" is a giveaway.
Choices: Ignore them and they will go away. Responding feeds their cravings.
b) "Who is to blame?" "Who is at fault?" "How do we fix...." Dead giveaways thread titles for the I hate Rod Graves Cardinals Liberation Army.
Choices: Join the feeding frenzy or cruise on by to find your homies.
c) The jock sniffers. Characterized by becoming too attached to a particular player, thinking he is indispensable and irreplaceable. Any and all of us can fall into that trap. Usually ends in disillusionment and grief.
The list is endless. Simeon Rice. Larry Centers. Eric Swann. Calvin Pace. Anquan Boldin. Edge. Curt Warner. Boomer Essiason. Name your own foible. We've all done it. Way too stressful.
Antidote: Recognize beforehand careers are short and money rules. Always. Don't get too attached to any player. It's a team game. The whole matters more than the parts.
d) Piling on threads blaming every squabble on the players. Players are too greedy. Spoiled prima donnas. Out of touch with reality. No loyalty.
Whoa Nellie. This is wrong too. Loyalty is often a one way street or an illusion. The NFL is an oligopoly run by billionaires. Don't forget it. The league is Pay-for-play. Just like any other business. It's not a charity or non-profit business or no-kill shelter.
Antidote: Hoist a brew and relax. Quick as a bunny, as my mom used to say, camp will open and life begins again.
e) Threads about Players available in next year's draft. Scroll right on by these things unless you are a kindred spirit to these poor wayward souls.
Antidote: None. Is you is or is you ain't?
f) Blaming the media crowd. Sometimes fun and sometimes valid but oftentimes misdirected anger. There are both good and lousy reporters, columnists and commentators. Fewer of them now with newspapers soon to be obsolete.
I read all of these posts out of curiosity.
We want media attention and respect and they want the same from us.
Antidote: Winning. And winning some more.
1. Quickly learn to identify the gang signs. By post title. By poster posse. By buzz words. Hang with your own and scroll-burn through or completely avoid those other shmucks.
a) Trolls. Anything with "Bidwill" and "cheap" is a giveaway.
Choices: Ignore them and they will go away. Responding feeds their cravings.
b) "Who is to blame?" "Who is at fault?" "How do we fix...." Dead giveaways thread titles for the I hate Rod Graves Cardinals Liberation Army.
Choices: Join the feeding frenzy or cruise on by to find your homies.
c) The jock sniffers. Characterized by becoming too attached to a particular player, thinking he is indispensable and irreplaceable. Any and all of us can fall into that trap. Usually ends in disillusionment and grief.
The list is endless. Simeon Rice. Larry Centers. Eric Swann. Calvin Pace. Anquan Boldin. Edge. Curt Warner. Boomer Essiason. Name your own foible. We've all done it. Way too stressful.
Antidote: Recognize beforehand careers are short and money rules. Always. Don't get too attached to any player. It's a team game. The whole matters more than the parts.
d) Piling on threads blaming every squabble on the players. Players are too greedy. Spoiled prima donnas. Out of touch with reality. No loyalty.
Whoa Nellie. This is wrong too. Loyalty is often a one way street or an illusion. The NFL is an oligopoly run by billionaires. Don't forget it. The league is Pay-for-play. Just like any other business. It's not a charity or non-profit business or no-kill shelter.
Antidote: Hoist a brew and relax. Quick as a bunny, as my mom used to say, camp will open and life begins again.
e) Threads about Players available in next year's draft. Scroll right on by these things unless you are a kindred spirit to these poor wayward souls.
Antidote: None. Is you is or is you ain't?
f) Blaming the media crowd. Sometimes fun and sometimes valid but oftentimes misdirected anger. There are both good and lousy reporters, columnists and commentators. Fewer of them now with newspapers soon to be obsolete.
I read all of these posts out of curiosity.
We want media attention and respect and they want the same from us.
Antidote: Winning. And winning some more.
I always thought it had something with Nestles'Quick & that scraggly-looking bunny. Thanks for clearing things up for me, Skkorp. 
