The Silver Lining Thread (positive people come on in!)

Originally posted by MunsterShane:

I'm Irish, living in Ireland and have only posted here in the last few months even though I've followed the niners since the 80's and I have a question

Are all US sports fans so Jekyll and Hyde after about as narrow a loss as you can get. I'm stunned at the lack of positivity in other threads. We are having a fantastic season, probably better than most of us imagined it would go and we lost after playing perhaps our worst game in the last second of overtime. get real people. We are good. We will learn from this. Cardinals are in for a world of pain next Sunday

Heads up lads and lassies. Losses are what build character and this team has bucket loads.

Originally posted by MunsterShane:

I'm Irish, living in Ireland and have only posted here in the last few months even though I've followed the niners since the 80's and I have a question

Are all US sports fans so Jekyll and Hyde after about as narrow a loss as you can get. I'm stunned at the lack of positivity in other threads. We are having a fantastic season, probably better than most of us imagined it would go and we lost after playing perhaps our worst game in the last second of overtime. get real people. We are good. We will learn from this. Cardinals are in for a world of pain next Sunday

Heads up lads and lassies. Losses are what build character and this team has bucket loads.

Originally posted by captveg:

Originally posted by MunsterShane:
I'm Irish, living in Ireland and have only posted here in the last few months even though I've followed the niners since the 80's and I have a question

Are all US sports fans so Jekyll and Hyde after about as narrow a loss as you can get. I'm stunned at the lack of positivity in other threads. We are having a fantastic season, probably better than most of us imagined it would go and we lost after playing perhaps our worst game in the last second of overtime. get real people. We are good. We will learn from this. Cardinals are in for a world of pain next Sunday

Heads up lads and lassies. Losses are what build character and this team has bucket loads.

I don't think it's the loss so much as it's the loss + injuries. I know I'd feel far less concerned about the loss if we didn't get so banged up, and I've been one of the more positive/ even keeled people here since last night.

It's the loss + losing Sanders, Blair and Jones that compounds things.

Originally posted by MagaBosa:

Originally posted by MunsterShane:
I'm Irish, living in Ireland and have only posted here in the last few months even though I've followed the niners since the 80's and I have a question

Are all US sports fans so Jekyll and Hyde after about as narrow a loss as you can get. I'm stunned at the lack of positivity in other threads. We are having a fantastic season, probably better than most of us imagined it would go and we lost after playing perhaps our worst game in the last second of overtime. get real people. We are good. We will learn from this. Cardinals are in for a world of pain next Sunday

Heads up lads and lassies. Losses are what build character and this team has bucket loads.

It's because it was against the Seahawks. We're tired of losing to them.

If it was against any other team the fans wouldn't be as upset

Originally posted by captveg:
I don't think it's the loss so much as it's the loss + injuries. I know I'd feel far less concerned about the loss if we didn't get so banged up, and I've been one of the more positive/ even keeled people here since last night.

It's the loss + losing Sanders, Blair and Jones that compounds things.

Originally posted by captveg:

Originally posted by Team49ers:

Originally posted by paulk205:

It's very hard for me to pick myself up this morning after spending 4 hours in the middle of the night (game start here: 1.30 am) hyperventilating. On top of the heartbreaking loss we ended up with another boatload of injuries.

How about the silver lining then? Well, if we are for real, and I think we are, we use this loss to build up steam for a playoff run. Also, in a way we had no business being even in OT, what with 2 turnovers on our goal line saving us, and the Seahawks D dropping about a quadrillion interceptions on the final drive of regulation. They played about the perfect game for them, we played badly on one side of the ball (the D though was magnificent), decimated by the aforementioned injuries... and we still had a chance to win down the stretch.

I remember an interview with Michael Jordan after his first NBA title saying that the first time he knew the Bulls were winning was after they dropped Game 1 at home: I paraphrase, but he pretty much said what I just wrote above: "they played their asses off, we played terribly, and we still has a chance down the stretch". Normally people would have said that they dropped one at home. He felt that the only way they could lose was by everything aligning against them- and how often does this happen? Indeed, they won the next 4 straight.

All this doesn't change that this is a horrible morning for me, short of sleep and unable to concentrate on my work. My wife was sympathetically looking at me in the morning as if someone had died, although she still thinks it's ludicrous to get worked up about something that happened 3000 miles away in the middle of the night (for us).

That michael jordan part made me feel better about this loss.

To be fair, Jordan may not have felt that way if Pippen and Grant got injured and were out for the next few games of the series.

Originally posted by MunsterShane:

I'm Irish, living in Ireland and have only posted here in the last few months even though I've followed the niners since the 80's and I have a question

Are all US sports fans so Jekyll and Hyde after about as narrow a loss as you can get. I'm stunned at the lack of positivity in other threads. We are having a fantastic season, probably better than most of us imagined it would go and we lost after playing perhaps our worst game in the last second of overtime. get real people. We are good. We will learn from this. Cardinals are in for a world of pain next Sunday

Heads up lads and lassies. Losses are what build character and this team has bucket loads.

Originally posted by Team49ers:

Originally posted by MunsterShane:
I'm Irish, living in Ireland and have only posted here in the last few months even though I've followed the niners since the 80's and I have a question

Are all US sports fans so Jekyll and Hyde after about as narrow a loss as you can get. I'm stunned at the lack of positivity in other threads. We are having a fantastic season, probably better than most of us imagined it would go and we lost after playing perhaps our worst game in the last second of overtime. get real people. We are good. We will learn from this. Cardinals are in for a world of pain next Sunday

Heads up lads and lassies. Losses are what build character and this team has bucket loads.

Lads and lassies! i like it. Top of the mornin to ya

Originally posted by MagaBosa:

Originally posted by MunsterShane:
I'm Irish, living in Ireland and have only posted here in the last few months even though I've followed the niners since the 80's and I have a question

Are all US sports fans so Jekyll and Hyde after about as narrow a loss as you can get. I'm stunned at the lack of positivity in other threads. We are having a fantastic season, probably better than most of us imagined it would go and we lost after playing perhaps our worst game in the last second of overtime. get real people. We are good. We will learn from this. Cardinals are in for a world of pain next Sunday

Heads up lads and lassies. Losses are what build character and this team has bucket loads.

It's because it was against the Seahawks. We're tired of losing to them.

If it was against any other team the fans wouldn't be as upset

Originally posted by MagaBosa:
It's because it was against the Seahawks. We're tired of losing to them.

If it was against any other team the fans wouldn't be as upset

Originally posted by cciowa:

Originally posted by MagaBosa:
It's because it was against the Seahawks. We're tired of losing to them.

If it was against any other team the fans wouldn't be as upset

no, everyone should be upset with that loss no matter who it was against. and the way we lost and the mistakes we made. am in no mood for the woulda shoulda we are better on paper. moral victory crowd here today