10-30-2022, 09:25 AM
The stages of being a fan who won't tolerate shitty performance from teams for which they root, Stanford Football fan living on the East Coast when game is after 10:30 ET style:
Excited and invested (2009 - 2017)
- Spend all day watching other games to see how Stanford stacks up to others
- Sleep is overrated and don't even feel tired at 10:30 because your enthusiasm keeps you awake
- Go on Cardboard after the game, watch post game interviews, because it's tough to just sleep after game, even it is 2am
- Pore through Box Scores and stats in morning, see how Stanford is doing compared to competition
- More Cardboard engagement about the game in morning, eagerly awaiting new polls
Still emotionally invested, but not excited anymore (2018 - 2020)
- Spend all day watching other games, wondering why Stanford can't be playing like other teams that look more impressive
- You feel tired and DVR the game to watch in morning, and do everything possible to avoid seeing score result until you've watched
- Watch the game and don't fast forward through more than commercial breaks, you still want the live TV experience
- Pore through Box Scores and stats
- Go on Cardboard on Sunday morning to engage in board discussion about it
Interested, but barely invested emotionally (2021)
- Spend all day watching games because you are a college football fan and Stanford's struggles can't take that from you!
- DVR the game, but don't want to waste another morning watching bad football, so you check the score before committing time to watch game. If it is a loss, you just delete recording. If it is a win, you watch, but fast forward through most of it.
- Pore through the Box Scores and stats
- Go on Cardboard after the game and do nothing but complain, because even a win isn't fun to watch
Interested because you always have been, but no longer emotionally invested at all (2022)
- You never imagined Stanford (and Cal) Football ineptitude could kill your passion for the sport, but here you are
- Watch other teams play, but can't stay for a whole game live, and use remote 10x less than you used to on Saturday
- Check the ESPN app just to see scores because you are really just curious what is happening, based on habit more than passion
- Find yourself DVRing Alabama-Tennessee just to make sure you see a great college game
- Don't watch or DVR the Stanford game at 10:30, and don't even think about it when going to bed
- See the score in the morning, but don't bother with Box Scores, don't care enough to read comments about the game or talk about the program on Cardboard anymore
I guess the fifth stage is caring about Stanford as much as I do Rice. Hopefully it wont't get to that point, but am not ruling it out. It's pretty much all up to Stanford's leaders to determine whether it does or not.
Excited and invested (2009 - 2017)
- Spend all day watching other games to see how Stanford stacks up to others
- Sleep is overrated and don't even feel tired at 10:30 because your enthusiasm keeps you awake
- Go on Cardboard after the game, watch post game interviews, because it's tough to just sleep after game, even it is 2am
- Pore through Box Scores and stats in morning, see how Stanford is doing compared to competition
- More Cardboard engagement about the game in morning, eagerly awaiting new polls
Still emotionally invested, but not excited anymore (2018 - 2020)
- Spend all day watching other games, wondering why Stanford can't be playing like other teams that look more impressive
- You feel tired and DVR the game to watch in morning, and do everything possible to avoid seeing score result until you've watched
- Watch the game and don't fast forward through more than commercial breaks, you still want the live TV experience
- Pore through Box Scores and stats
- Go on Cardboard on Sunday morning to engage in board discussion about it
Interested, but barely invested emotionally (2021)
- Spend all day watching games because you are a college football fan and Stanford's struggles can't take that from you!
- DVR the game, but don't want to waste another morning watching bad football, so you check the score before committing time to watch game. If it is a loss, you just delete recording. If it is a win, you watch, but fast forward through most of it.
- Pore through the Box Scores and stats
- Go on Cardboard after the game and do nothing but complain, because even a win isn't fun to watch
Interested because you always have been, but no longer emotionally invested at all (2022)
- You never imagined Stanford (and Cal) Football ineptitude could kill your passion for the sport, but here you are
- Watch other teams play, but can't stay for a whole game live, and use remote 10x less than you used to on Saturday
- Check the ESPN app just to see scores because you are really just curious what is happening, based on habit more than passion
- Find yourself DVRing Alabama-Tennessee just to make sure you see a great college game
- Don't watch or DVR the Stanford game at 10:30, and don't even think about it when going to bed
- See the score in the morning, but don't bother with Box Scores, don't care enough to read comments about the game or talk about the program on Cardboard anymore
I guess the fifth stage is caring about Stanford as much as I do Rice. Hopefully it wont't get to that point, but am not ruling it out. It's pretty much all up to Stanford's leaders to determine whether it does or not.