Last year was kind of a turning point for me (I hope). I'm learning to just enjoy each game. I'm learning to enjoy the drama as it unfolds. I'm learning to remember that each member of the team is a human being who has a life outside of the stadium and who really sacrifices their body--both muscles and mind--to play a game for my enjoyment as a fan. That's a pretty big deal. So, I'm learning to be thankful to God for the fun of the game, even when the ball bounces the other way.

Imagine if you lived your own personal life expecting to be the "champion" of everything you do. What a giant disappointment most days, most months, most years would be. So often we're outdone, outshined, outworked by our peers. We set goals for ourselves that we don't or can't keep. Most of us "lose," or at the very least, there are no clear winners, more than we are the champion of the things we do.

The point of my analogy is: expecting the Rams to win the Super Bowl, or expecting them to win every/most games in high fashion, or expecting any kind of specific result is setting yourself up for frustration rather than fun. And I'm preaching at myself, because that's how I was after our "shooting star" years of 99-01.

Maybe that's not what you're doing. That's good. I mean it. And like roman said, it's OK if you want to pick apart the little details of this or that. But, let's say, for instance, Gurley's knee is complete toast. Well... there's literally nothing I can do about it. It doesn't help me one bit to worry about it. So, for my personal part which you don't need to follow, fretting about it, posting about it ad infinitum, etc... doesn't seem to be worth the time or mental energy.