My game day thoughts.......

[UtahDan]

It'll bug me too, but it won't stick in my craw for the entire time.

I don't think there is room for anything additional to be stuck in your craw.

[RockyBalboa]

I agree. This loss will bother me until we have a chance to make things right next November.

It'll bug me too, but it won't stick in my craw for the entire time.

But....I won't lie when I'm saying that revenge will be sweet.

[UtahDan]

I agree. This loss will bother me until we have a chance to make things right next November.

Surfah, you get me. You really get me.

[Surfah]

Oh BS. If you can't talk more pleasure out of an important win in a rivlary game (the biggest most important ever) then you have missed half the point of college sports. Had BYU won 48-24 BYU fans would be on cloud nine for weeks with endless threads about the game, its fall out, implications, relative status of the programs, etc, and rightly so.

I just don't believe you. I understand that we all want to move on after a loss because it is unpleasant, we cut it off, but don't try to sell me on the the idea that you move on just as quickly from a really big important rivalry win. Nonsense.

I agree. This loss will bother me until we have a chance to make things right next November.

[il Padrino Ute]

Oh BS. If you can't talk more pleasure out of an important win in a rivlary game (the biggest most important ever) then you have missed half the point of college sports. Had BYU won 48-24 BYU fans would be on cloud nine for weeks with endless threads about the game, its fall out, implications, relative status of the programs, etc, and rightly so.

I just don't believe you. I understand that we all want to move on after a loss because it is unpleasant, we cut it off, but don't try to sell me on the the idea that you move on just as quickly from a really big important rivalry win. Nonsense.

For me, win or lose, the game is over once I leave the stadium. I did talk about it, but there is very little emotional attachment for me to a game.

It doesn't surprise me that others are like me in that regard, as it really is just a game. Perhaps you are more emotionally invested in it than I am.

The only time I was ever emotionally involved was when I played. But now that I am only a spectator rather than a participant, I have no reason to get emotional.

[UtahDan]

I was on cloud nine for weeks after the 2006 win. I'd get all SU-like and my eyes would well up with tears of joy just thinking about that catch.

So it really just depends.

This underscores the point I was making (it was a really small point, actually). You will probably always feel satisfaction and joy about that catch. It was a big deal and it always will be. You dwell on the good when there is some, but in a week like this you move on. You are also right of course that expectations are everything.

[UtahDan]

I don't think DDD is alone in waking up the next morning to a new day. I don't wake up ecstatic the morning after a win, and I don't wake up devastated after a loss.

Oh BS. If you can't talk more pleasure out of an important win in a rivlary game (the biggest most important ever) then you have missed half the point of college sports. Had BYU won 48-24 BYU fans would be on cloud nine for weeks with endless threads about the game, its fall out, implications, relative status of the programs, etc, and rightly so.

I just don't believe you. I understand that we all want to move on after a loss because it is unpleasant, we cut it off, but don't try to sell me on the the idea that you move on just as quickly from a really big important rivalry win. Nonsense.

[UtahDan]

I think there is a difference between not caring and taking it too seriously.

I don't know of anyone involved with either school that doesn't care.

Perhaps you feel that everyone should be upset or elated for several weeks? A month? Should people cry? What is the appropriate response as you see it?

I think people should cry. That would bring me even more joy. I'm just highlighting that the emotion lasts longer for the victor because it is a good one where as the losers always compartmentalize, move one, start talking about other things (many of them ridiculous) and say they don't care because most of us don't dwell on unpleasantness. I.e., yeah we lost but anywho, lets talk about rude fans, how much we think you will get clobbered in your BCS game, etc etc.

Its only Tuesday, I will bask in the glow for weeks. If my team had lost, I would still want to talk football but not that, so I would also be not caring, minimizing, picking at the edges, focusing on minutia, etc.

[fuegote]

And you are correct. The two fan bases deserve each other. The most amusing part of it is that neither side recognizes that they have made each other who they are.

Amen, amen, <sigh> amen. This week is almost over thank heavens. The worst two weeks of the year for me are the week before the game and the week after. But then again, I don't like contention.

Thanksgiving can't get here soon enough.

[venkman]

Would I qualify as a BYU partisan? I'm a fan in the supporter or enthusiast sense of the word; I exhibit an intense interest in their teams. I enjoy going to the games; I hope the BYU teams win any contest they're engaged in. My self-worth is not tied up in the teams wins and losses.

I don't think DDD is alone in waking up the next morning to a new day. I don't wake up ecstatic the morning after a win, and I don't wake up devastated after a loss.

I wasn't too broken up by this loss. Very disappointed because it was winnable, but I expected to lose so it wasn't too devastating. In fact, I was pretty much over it by the time it was over. I mean, I'm still a little ticked when I think about it, just not depressed.

However, the 2005 loss was horrific, I was seriously depressed for a week. I think it had to do with the fact we were favored and then lost - fourth in a row.

I was on cloud nine for weeks after the 2006 win. I'd get all SU-like and my eyes would well up with tears of joy just thinking about that catch.

So it really just depends.

[beelzebabette]

Yup. If I made a list of those distraction activities, acting like one doesn't care would be right near the top. You're not really a BYU partisan so you don't count.

Would I qualify as a BYU partisan? I'm a fan in the supporter or enthusiast sense of the word; I exhibit an intense interest in their teams. I enjoy going to the games; I hope the BYU teams win any contest they're engaged in. My self-worth is not tied up in the teams wins and losses.

I don't think DDD is alone in waking up the next morning to a new day. I don't wake up ecstatic the morning after a win, and I don't wake up devastated after a loss.

[TripletDaddy]

Yup. If I made a list of those distraction activities, acting like one doesn't care would be right near the top. You're not really a BYU partisan so you don't count.

I think there is a difference between not caring and taking it too seriously.

I don't know of anyone involved with either school that doesn't care.

Perhaps you feel that everyone should be upset or elated for several weeks? A month? Should people cry? What is the appropriate response as you see it?

[UtahDan]

In all honesty, I don't get too up or down. The next day, time to get up, read about the game, be annoyed, then move on.

Today is it a non-issue. Nothing can be done either way and there are more games on the horizon.

After 4th and 18, we went out to dinner. I was really pumped up. I went back to work the following Monday and that was the end of it.

Unlike SU, I don't recall ever crying over a team or a game.

Some of you might look at my inability to cry over such a sad event and think it offensive. But that doesn't mean that I killed the Arab.

BYU lost this past weekend. Or maybe the previous weekend. I can't be sure.....

Yup. If I made a list of those distraction activities, acting like one doesn't care would be right near the top. You're not really a BYU partisan so you don't count.

[TripletDaddy]

One of the best parts of a rivalry win is the aftermath. Particularly the things that fans use to distract themselves from the pain of the outcome of that game. We all do it, but it is still fun to watch.

In all honesty, I don't get too up or down. The next day, time to get up, read about the game, be annoyed, then move on.

Today is it a non-issue. Nothing can be done either way and there are more games on the horizon.

After 4th and 18, we went out to dinner. I was really pumped up. I went back to work the following Monday and that was the end of it.

Unlike SU, I don't recall ever crying over a team or a game.

Some of you might look at my inability to cry over such a sad event and think it offensive. But that doesn't mean that I killed the Arab.

BYU lost this past weekend. Or maybe the previous weekend. I can't be sure.....

[UtahDan]

One of the best parts of a rivalry win is the aftermath. Particularly the things that fans use to distract themselves from the pain of the outcome of that game. We all do it, but it is still fun to watch.