Four plays and out

Mik

Oh, they do. You’re probably right about not as often as football.

LuFins Dad

While no fan wants to see their favorite players injured, it is a part of the game and often times can be the most compelling parts of the game… Ben Roethlisberger coming off the bench with a badly injured shoulder to lead a final scoring drive to win a playoff game… Drew Brees coming back from a shoulder that would have ended many other players careers only to go on and have a potential HOF career…

Another aspect that’s compelling is
To see somebody else rise up when the starter is injured… Cam Heyward (one of my favorites) went down with groin injury Sunday. That hurts. A lot… But the rookie DL that replaced him played a respectable game. That raises my interest considerably. I want Cam back, but I also want to see if this rookie takes advantage of the opportunity before him.

Of course, it could be that we see it differently because my fandom is more about the team and not one particular player…

Horace

@LuFins-Dad said in Four plays and out:

While no fan wants to see their favorite players injured, it is a part of the game and often times can be the most compelling parts of the game… Ben Roethlisberger coming off the bench with a badly injured shoulder to lead a final scoring drive to win a playoff game… Drew Brees coming back from a shoulder that would have ended many other players careers only to go on and have a potential HOF career…

Another aspect that’s compelling is
To see somebody else rise up when the starter is injured… Cam Heyward (one of my favorites) went down with groin injury Sunday. That hurts. A lot… But the rookie DL that replaced him played a respectable game. That raises my interest considerably. I want Cam back, but I also want to see if this rookie takes advantage of the opportunity before him.

Of course, it could be that we see it differently because my fandom is more about the team and not one particular player…

If any Jets fan came away from the game last night with more interest and enjoyment from their fandom because of the random injury setback, my hat's off to them. I think that is a rare sort of fan though.

LuFins Dad

@Horace said in Four plays and out:

@LuFins-Dad said in Four plays and out:

While no fan wants to see their favorite players injured, it is a part of the game and often times can be the most compelling parts of the game… Ben Roethlisberger coming off the bench with a badly injured shoulder to lead a final scoring drive to win a playoff game… Drew Brees coming back from a shoulder that would have ended many other players careers only to go on and have a potential HOF career…

Another aspect that’s compelling is
To see somebody else rise up when the starter is injured… Cam Heyward (one of my favorites) went down with groin injury Sunday. That hurts. A lot… But the rookie DL that replaced him played a respectable game. That raises my interest considerably. I want Cam back, but I also want to see if this rookie takes advantage of the opportunity before him.

Of course, it could be that we see it differently because my fandom is more about the team and not one particular player…

If any Jets fan came away from the game last night with more interest and enjoyment from their fandom because of the random injury setback, my hat's off to them. I think that is a rare sort of fan though.

Not more not less. Do you believe that the vast majority of Jet fans weren’t Jet fans before Aaron Rodgers? Do you think many will abandon their interest with Rogers out? And I’ll say this, they weren’t sitting on their hands moping while that kid ran back that punt in overtime… They were fully into it… It’s about the team…

LuFins Dad

Trust Olbermann to stay classy and relevant…

Horace

@LuFins-Dad said in Four plays and out:

@Horace said in Four plays and out:

@LuFins-Dad said in Four plays and out:

While no fan wants to see their favorite players injured, it is a part of the game and often times can be the most compelling parts of the game… Ben Roethlisberger coming off the bench with a badly injured shoulder to lead a final scoring drive to win a playoff game… Drew Brees coming back from a shoulder that would have ended many other players careers only to go on and have a potential HOF career…

Another aspect that’s compelling is
To see somebody else rise up when the starter is injured… Cam Heyward (one of my favorites) went down with groin injury Sunday. That hurts. A lot… But the rookie DL that replaced him played a respectable game. That raises my interest considerably. I want Cam back, but I also want to see if this rookie takes advantage of the opportunity before him.

Of course, it could be that we see it differently because my fandom is more about the team and not one particular player…

If any Jets fan came away from the game last night with more interest and enjoyment from their fandom because of the random injury setback, my hat's off to them. I think that is a rare sort of fan though.

Not more not less. Do you believe that the vast majority of Jet fans weren’t Jet fans before Aaron Rodgers? Do you think many will abandon their interest with Rogers out? And I’ll say this, they weren’t sitting on their hands moping while that kid ran back that punt in overtime… They were fully into it… It’s about the team…

Well the Jets invested a huge amount of resources into a player they'll get nothing out of this season. Personally that would disappoint me and make me enjoy the whole process of fandom a bit less. Over time I decided the random dice rolls where your team got decimated weekly, brought me under the threshold for enjoying the whole process. But, people differ.