Championship or Complaining

I think a championship-or-bust mentality has become pervasive amongst football fans, not because they actually care that much about their team winning championships, but because it rationalizes whining about your team every year they don’t win the Super Bowl. This is a win-win for your typical NFL partisan's psyche whose subconscious is craving grounds for remonstrance in a society that otherwise gives him pretty much everything he wants. So you can own your own home, have all your material needs met, your team can go 11-5 then win a playoff game, and you still get to complain about how heartbroken you are by your team's dismal performance because they "fell short." Which they are going to do 96.875% of the time, anyway, in a 32 team league.

It reminds of one more thing I like about Bills fans: they’re proud of the great teams of the early 90s despite the K-Gun never winning a Super Bowl. It would be easy to wallow in self-pity about those four Super Bowl losses but Bills fans are proud of those teams, as well they should be.