There’s Always Next Year

Posted on 27 October 2007

I have been ruing the fact lately that every team I support in sports seems to be snuggly situated on a linear scale somewhere between poor and downright incompetent. Loitering on the extremities is competent and mediocre but whenever MY teams get within touching distance they seem to self-destruct in a cloud of ineptitude, farce and the kind of bad luck associated with the winner of this Darwin Award. Of course I have had some successes in my life I’m not a complete Jonah, but they do seem to be very few and far between and embedded in years beginning with a 1.

 

In the occasional moments when I visit the dark side of my mind and start contemplating sporting oblivion I can get quite maudlin. “Why me” I think, “Why do I pick (or have chosen for me my family etc) teams that think winning is some nebulous concept only really accessible to New England Patriots fans, Florida Gators supporters and Germans?”

 

It’s right about now that I reach for the shotgun but fortunately I haven’t got one so that saves a lot of trouble. I do though tell myself that as a life coach that helps other people get over disappointments and shows them ways to reframe situations positively that I should be able to do the same with myself. Actually I can do that, it’s just that sometimes I don’t want to, it seems almost like dancing around at a funeral having the time of your life. Great fun, but probably a tad tactless. So I think I should show some respect to my fellow fans that want to wallow in self-pity. Therefore if you are a St Louis Rams, Derby County or England fan stop reading now and head for the drinks cabinet otherwise this may cheer you up. It may not of course but hey this is free so take it or leave it.

 

Here are my reframes on being a supporter of the above teams.

 

Theirs is no need to worry about what times the games are going to kick off at next years European Championship because England wont be there so I can have some long lie-ins.

 

I don’t have to ponder whether to subscribe to Satanta or Fox next year because Derby will have been relegated and so won’t be on either channel.

 

There’s no need to worry about life coaching clients wanting to see me on a Sunday. Now I can TiVO the meaningless Rams games and skip through the carnage at 4x speed peeking out from behind a cushion.

 

The NFL draft should be fun next year with the Rams picking in the top 3.

 

England might finally get a coach that knows what a coach is meant to do and not simply some guy that knows the brother-in-law of the man who mows the lawn for the guy that once met the chairman of the selectors.

 

There’s no need to worry about the NFL shop selling out of Rams gear next time I visit.

 

One hand is all I need to calculate the total amount of Derby & Rams victories for the entire season. No abacus necessary for me.

 

Nobody will ever call me a bandwagon jumper. Can you say that smug New England/Red Sox fans, huh?

 

People will feel sorry for me and buy me beer in bars….possibly, I’ve not actually tried that one yet.

 

And finally my favorite one given to me by a friend who’s a lifelong Detroit Lions fan;

 

There’s Always Next Year!

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