Steelers fans need lessons in losing

Who is this scrub anyway????? A disgruntled Raven's fan?



After four straight losses and the worst start in 45 years, you probably haven't noticed it yet, Steelers fans, but you're already changing.

With every embarrassing performance, with every turnover, every incomplete pass, every rushing yard surrendered and every toothless threat from your increasingly desperate head coach, slowly but surely you are mutating, transforming, changing … into an entirely different kind of fan.
The problem is, as a Steelers fan you've experienced so much success and winning that you really have no way of knowing just what's happening to you, or how in the world to cope with it. Even with the Steelers mercifully on their bye week, unable to lose yet again to another winless team in a faraway place, stuck in the AFC cellar below the Browns (for God's sake), for at least another week, maybe two, maybe three -- the symptoms persist.

Lethargy. Depression. Disorientation. Your world has stopped making sense. Your bad-ass Towel? It is no longer Terrible but, instead, just a yellow hand towel, soaked with tears and Primanti Brothers sauce from all that stress eating

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maybe a loss like this will help younger Steelers fans realize how .... They lost
games they should not have lost to absolutely horrible teams.

johnnyadams042 wrote:

maybe a loss like this will help younger Steelers fans realize how .... They lost
games they should not have lost to absolutely horrible teams.

Johnny, I deleted the links to the website you posted. Although you commented on the original post, including links to another website in your first post comes across as spam.

We don't have a problem with members posting links to other sites, but obviously, spam isn't acceptable. If you didn't join just to promote another site and stick around and contribute to the board, then we won't have a problem with you posting those links in the future.  

I will NEVER be good at losing.

It's not about being good at losing, it's about not acting like an ass after losing. The problem is that the Steelers have been good for a very long time, and haven't been in the basement either. There's always been the red headed step child - aka the browns - to pick on, but now even they are putting up a good fight.

In essence, the guy is right, Steelers fans need to learn how to deal with losing.

I think many Steelers fans can be forgiven. There are a lot of Steelers fans under 30 who don't know what it's like to root for a bad team. There's an expectation that the Steelers will ALWAYS be good because that's the way it's been for a long time, and any problems will be quickly fixed. Many of us remember the mediocre 1980s. And there's still many who remember the ineptitude of the pre-Noll Steelers. The Steelers won't always be a top team. There's going to be lean years. I tried to hammer that point when last season's locker room drama was shrugged off as no big deal and nothing more than the media just making something out of nothing once again.