With the Seahawks game I went from shouting at the screen to screaming at it.
I had a bad omen at the beginning as I got confused about the start time and turned the game on when it was already halfway through the first quarter. So already I'm in a bad mood and Seattle is down by six and is just playing like ****. I spent 90% of that game in a downer mood, complaining about how embarrassing it was for them to end the season with such a lame performance. I'm a Canucks fan. I've seen the "let the fans get emotionally invested in you only for you to **** the bed when it matters" routine many times before. It feels like a con, like you were a sucker to get excited in the first place. It's not a con if your team plays well but loses. It's a con when they play so poorly it looks like they're not even trying.
And then they go and pull this miracle victory completely out of their asses! This must feel awful for Packer fans. Once the Hawks got the onside kick my assumptions completely flipped. "They're going to do this! Holy ****!" There were Seahawk players crying after the game. I was just shocked. Throughout the rest of the day I kept asking my brother if it really happened. Even now it doesn't seem real.
Now we face the Patriots who are my absolute least favourite team. I've never cared for Tom Brady. I remember an interview a few years back, where he was talking about being drafted in the sixth round and was crying about it! "Well I've won three Superbowls, I'm a millionaire married to a supermodel, I'm the greatest player in Patriots history, a sure-lock hall of famer and in the discussion as the greatest quarterback of my generation. I have proven every doubter wrong... but I was slighted in the draft and it still hurts so much that I'm crying like a baby even though being drafted PERIOD is an opportunity that most people never get in the first place." What a fucking entitled prick. Everything has worked out for him but he whines and cries about a teeny tiny speed bump along the way.
Of course with my favourite team against my least favourite team, this makes my personal stakes in the Superbowl that much greater. With last year's win I can live with them losing this year but losing to New England? Letting Tom Brady get a fourth ring? Ugh, that would really annoy me.