11 Miserable Years...

ewe cared enough to open it and respond that no one cares.

Say what?

I opened this thread to see if this really works...

 

Is it working?

Nope.

Schiano is a dick, that's your problem. The NFL figured that out a couple games into his rookie season. I don't remember Rutgers crying their eyes out when he left either. Jerome Bettis was right, Schiano has a Rich Brooks-esque stink to him and he will be out of the league long before Josh Freeman will. 

Stop whining... A lot of us started following the Packers in the mid-70s. Took almost 20 years before we saw winning football.

Real fans don't bail when their team sucks.  Many of us grew up with 20 years of fail.

 

I quit watching MLB and NBA because it's a freakin' joke not because the Brewers and Bucks blew balls.     

Step 1 is for the current players to use Shiano as a human mop in the trainers room and shower and hope a nice case of MRSA takes hold. Then again Manziel /Shiano would be too much to miss out on. Man that would be fun.

I watched about 90% of all Brewer games since DirectTV offered the MLB ticket.  

 

Cry me a river. At least you have seen them win a Championship. 

hang in there Calbuc. Another couple of years with them playing the way they have been, and fans staying away in droves, you won't have to travel to Tampa to see them. They will be shipped off to the west coast for you to see up close and personal. LA Piwates has a nice ring to it.

The Bucs have talented players, but it appears that they do not have a coach who is willing to work with the talent he possesses.  Getting rid of Chucky wasn't a bad move, but they haven't found anyone better since then.

 

 

Apparently, 11 Miserable Years...  and few if any here care.

 

CalBuccaneer--- As a long time Packer fan, I can understand where you are coming from!  Every year for, I think about 20 years, it was "The Pack will be back"!   And they never were.   I did NOT give up on them.  I watched every game and cussed every time they lost.  But I hung in there and eventually they did "come back".   Your Bucs will too.   Someday!   

Just wondering which Buccaneer board you frequent so I can drop in and lament the Packers' chronic injury problems?

London, here they come!!!

pretty sure it is the whiney, bandwagon fans that is the root of the problem

Of the Packers? I have little doubt.

No matter how bleak things got for the Packers in the late '80s, I always tried to look for some hope.  1986 was probably the low point.  James Lofton had 2 sex assault accusations lobbied against him, Mossy Cade actually DID rape his own Aunt, and on the field the Packers were a suckfest of humongous proportions. 

 

Yet even in '86 I tried to hang onto the bright spots.  Loved young Tim Harris as a pass rusher.  Liked the hard hitting safeties in Tiger Greene and Kenny Stills.  Kenny Davis seemed to have some potential as a runner (he would have some success on some very good Buffalo Bills' teams). 

 

If you love a team enough, you can always find some sort of bright spot.  Eventually picking high in the draft will pay off, but there is some luck involved and the top of your organization has to be run by good people as well or else your squad will continue to wallow in mediocrity until there is competent leadership.  The Pack learned that the hard way in the '70s and '80s, but fortunately learned their lesson from those trying years.

As bad as the Infante years were, and the Starr coaching years were, and the Bengston, and Dan Devine years, I think the worse I ever felt as a Packer fan were the Forest Gregg years. As great of a Offensive Linemen that he was, he was the worse head coach since the glory years. How he got the Bengals to the Super Bowl is anyones guess. Packers during the Gregg years were  worse than the Jim Schwartz era with the Lions. Lions do have talent while the Packers had very little. Constant Personal fouls, players suspended, head hunting thuggery at its best. But still I cheered them on. Blackest era of Packer football since Lombardi without a doubt.

11 years.  Cute.  I was born in 1970.  Let's examine the Packers record from the year of my birth to 1992, a span of 22 years - you know, double that of your "plight"

 

Playoff games: 3

Playoff wins: 1

Winning seasons: 5

Division titles: 1

 

3 years ago, your team was 10-6, with a young exciting QB and things were looking up, until idiot Schiano showed up.

6 and 8 years ago, your team won division titles and played in the NFL playoffs.  

In the last 8 years, your team has only one fewer playoff game than the Packers did in 22 years.

In the last 9 years - 4 winning seasons.

 

So, I won't apologize if your whining about the poor plight of your miserable 11 years falls on deaf ears.   It's been 3 whole years since a winning season! SO HARD FOR YOU!   Why, it's been a whole 11 years since a Super Bowl title!  BURN THE PLACE DOWN!  Only 2 playoff games in 9 years?  UTTER MISERY!

 

Don't even get me started on the effing Brewers and 43 years of winning nothing.   

 

You know nothing Jon Snow.  

As a CU Buff fan, I feel your pain.  I sold myself on the Dan Hawkins era.  I sold myself on the Jon Embree era.  And now I've sold myself on the Mike McIntyre era.  As fans, it's all we can do.  With the nature of college football, CU may never turn things around.  But at least the Bucs are an NFL team and no NFL team stays bad forever.  

I have an aunt and uncle that were born and raised in Wisconsin that moved to Florida in their 50s and became Buc fans.

Better times ahead. A very good man (friend of Mrs. Blair Kiel's) is your new AD---Rick George. Born leader! Big job, but he's up to it.

Once you go Buc..........

You no longer give a fuc?

Well done.

       
       


Lol...

 

As a NCState football fan I know mediocrity. Though we churn out nfl players pretty well for our lack of big time success (just in the 11 mentioned years: Torry Holt, Rivers, K-Rob,Cotchery Mario Williams to Russell WIlson,Hauschka and latest CalBuc's Mike Glennon to name a few) never translated to team success at the college level.

We were ranked #11 and beat up on a highly ranked Notre Dame squad on New Years day. I thought we were destined for greatness, but oh well.

Just like our '83 Jimmy Valvano basketball championship I think Calbuc team sold their soul to the devil in 02. Hopefully a Wolfpack QB on a Buccanneers team isnt a double whammy!

 

Pity Party.

 

I'm a U.W.M. football fan.

 

We haven't won a game since 1974.

On this I call B S!!!     If they were winning your hero worship would be overwhelming on here.  Nobody likes losers so naturally you don't care about any of the current players.  A true fan backs their team no matter who the players are or what the team record is.  Suck it up and quit whining.  Here's a  , call someone who cares.

I was also born in 1970 and a fan ever since. Looking back......man it was tough to be a Packer fan growing up in northern Illinois!!

I was born in 1960.

 

As a child I thought the Packers won the championship every year-----man the 70's were a rude awakening.

Amish burqas.

My memories of the 70's are few...ignorance is bliss I think.

 

Zeppelin was pretty good, I guess?

I was born in 1972.

I remember as a kid with my coloring books trying to color the people to be wearing plaid pants. 

A pretty mixed bag of responses here...the haters will hate as usual, that is nothing new.  But, to the ones who think I am dumping the Bucs, ah... Not so fast.  While I am despondent about their outlook and the circus surrounding them this year, I have not given up my allegiance to the team.  I know that the Packers went through a 20 year dry spell and thats why I posted my feelings on here.  What did you fans do to keep your chin up those 20 years? 

As for the poster who wrote that if the Bucs were winning, "you would be indulging in hero worship and singing their praises".  If you humor me, there is ONE big difference between the good Bucs team and the BAD.  On the good Bucs team, there were likable hard workers with a personality that was ONE.  That team made me care about them probably because the defense was busting their rear in a superhuman fashion to sustain a winning record despite a pitiful offense and inept QB's like Dilfer, King, Rob Johnson, Chris Simms, etc... Then, we kept getting eliminated by you guys and Philly and the Rams in the playoffs and that hurdle made me hunger even more for the championship.  Finally, just as it seemed to be falling apart, one magical season let them complete their goal.  A defense that deserved a championship finally got it.  The JOURNEY (7 years in the making) was complete. 
Now, there is no journey.  We are the Chicago Cubs of the NFL again.  A joke... At least, YOU GUYS OWNED the team and could demand a GM or Coach of your choice.  We dont have that privilege.  All other teams' fans have NO SAY.  There is no journey because this team has no leadership from owner to GM to Coach to players.  They ruined Freeman.  He is at his best when he can play wide open and hurry up.  They would only let him play like that at the end of games where we were behind.  He led a lot of comebacks but many times it was too little too late.  Are there good players there?  Yeah, some... VJax, Doug Martin, Levonte David, Revis,... But, any successful team long term needs an exceptional QB.  How can they have been wrong 22 times?  Until you have one as the base of your franchise, forget it.  I am writing my true feelings THIS YEAR because the last of the guys I cared about (Ronde) retired and sadly, I find that I dont care about any player on the Bucs like I used to about the others.  Thats what is scary.  There is nothing compelling about them.  How do you let that happen?  If they keep a stiff like Schiano around, please draft Manziel.  That free spirit vs toes on the line Coach story would be real interesting.  At least Manziel would be worth watching even if he is as immature as any high profile QB coming out of college...EVER. 

Oh, PackLandVA, yep I am a real attention whore for starting 1 football thread ALL SEASON so far...