Admittedly, Patriots.win has way more users, there's a bit more energy over there, and they're more up-to-date with new habbenings as they come. It's also an amazing place to find memes.
But the ANXIETY there is off the chart. That's what I love about this place. Most of us here actually believe that nothing can stop what is coming, and that God wins in the end, so we're really pretty calm.
I'm a big sports fan. After many years I came to a realization that I never really enjoyed winning that much. I just hating losing so badly that winning was a relief. A win just meant I could relax a few more days until the next game, where we might lose again.
it wreaked havoc on my emotional state. The right loss could literally ruin a whole week for me. I'd be screaming out for joy one minute, then screaming at my sisters to get out of the living room cause they were bad luck the next minute. I was a monster watching games live.
So one day I decided I wasn't going to watch the games of my favorite teams live anymore. When the outcome is up in the air, everything that happens until the end of the game is just too stress-inducing. I decided just to wait and see who won. If we lost, I wouldn't bother watching. Without the details of the game burned into my brain the sting of the loss didn't hurt so bad or last so long.
I'd only watch if we won. At first I thought this would be boring, but on the contrary, it was awesome. Since I already knew we won I could truly relish every moment. When the other team scored I wouldn't get upset, cause I was basically just watching a movie. I could literally sit and eat popcorn and just enjoy it. It was like "Oh so THAT'S how we won this game..." for 90 minutes instead of chewing on my fingernails.
Over here, we believe that nothing can stop what is coming. We believe that at the end of this movie, God wins. We believe there's a plan, and that the drama that we see will have twists and turns, but that nothing is always what it seems, so we relax, keep an open mind, and explore different ways of looking at things rather than freaking out all the time.
I feel sorry for the guys over on the other site. I know what it's like to have an outcome, and one as critical as the fate of our country, and even the world, up in the air. Hell I can't hardly stand it when it's only sports. But here, we believe that we know how this movie ends. We walk by faith, not by sight. And that's just a better way to live your life if you ask me.
Oof. I tell ya man, you're clearly very young. I remember the days before instant replay and I can tell you straight up, it's so much better now. So many bad calls are overturned now and refs are held to a way higher standard than they used to be. When I was a kid, my dad and I literally did nothing but bitch about the refs screwing us week after week, because we had instant replay to prove they were wrong and they didn't. It was a nightmare. We almost never do it anymore. You can show me a thousand examples of ticky tack reffing and apparent blown calls and favoritism but you're going to need a lot more than that to prove the professional sports are actually RIGGED.
Maybe you should try watching your Chicago teams on replay like I have. You seem pretty emotional about this.
Well give Tuohy a try, he breaks a lot of stuff down to prove that the games are rigged. If you still don't think it's rigged then OK but I honestly think it has been rigged for a long time.
Let's not forget about Tim Donaghy and how he fixed a lot of NBA games.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25980368/how-former-ref-tim-donaghy-conspired-fix-nba-games
Well I did say I was back then but now that I've stopped watching sports for about 2 years and a half, I feel much better. Even my father, who is an avid sports fan, says there's a lot of rigging going on in sports, more than ever nowadays.
And yes I've watched a lot of Chicago Bears games on replay, especially vs the Packers and I've seen, on an average, 15 or more blown calls/favored calls, costing the Bears a lot of games. Why do you think the Packers are suddenly gaining ground against the Bears in the all time W-L stats? Bears were like 50 games ahead of the Packers 15 years ago and now the Packers have surpassed the Bears I believe. Rodgers may be responsible for that but we all know the refs helped Rodgers win a majority of the games vs the Bears.
Even for the 100th anniversary game, we all already knew the outcome of the game, that the Packers would win and they indeed did. Even in 2018, when the Bears were a playoff contender, their first game was with the Packers and that was after we drafted Roquan Smith, one of the best defensive players, and we traded for Khalil Mack from the Oakland Raiders, then Smith and Mack DOMINATED Rodgers to the point where it looked like we were going to win this game.
Then suddenly "bad" calls kept coming and the Packers won. Even after the Bears were ahead at half time, but then the refs kept giving out bad call after bad call and the Packers won by a single point.
But that's OK if you still think there's no evidence of rigging and I don't know if you have watched or read Tuohy's claims but he does make sense, a lot of sense, on the rigging in sports to help Las Vegas.
I may be young but I did watch games back when there were no replays, with only the score that would show up on the screen but no stats line or anything like that. The gold/yellow letters on CBS and such. But I guess that got pushed out when I started watching more games in the modern era with replays and all. I vaguely remember the days before replays.
I didn't say I don't think there's any evidence of rigging. I admitted (if not to you then someone else already) that it wouldn't be hard to buy off a ref or a player--that happens all the time. I'm just saying that with replay, it sure seems to me that it happens a lot less often than it used to, and even when it happens, it doesn't mean the ultimate outcome gets changed. There are very few games that come down to a last second bad call. It happens, I just think there's a difference between trying to influence a game, and actually "rigging" it.