And I Thought We Had One Of The Best Fanbases

[Tech Worlds]

Cry me a river Superfan.

I am surprised you can see us bad fans from up top your soapbox m

 

[MLOhawks]

Just on this site alone, I can see the ugly truth to what some of fan bases have said negatively about us. You Debbie Downers are surely something else, and its disgusting.

We have a 5-1 team, the Seahawks could be a 3-3 team, or even a 6-0, but they are not, they are in fact 5-1, on top of the NFC standings with the New Orleans Saints.

Maybe we should learn to temper our expectations a little bit on how you view league wide domination.

Quit acting like Russell Wilson is a 10 year Vet. He's an undersized, 2nd year player, with one of the worst O-lines in the NFL right now, but he's 17-7 in 24 Games as a Seahawk. And one hell of a football player.

Quit acting like this team is going to be impervious to mental error and mistakes. Like Wilson, much of this team is young. The 4th youngest in the NFL. And because of either executive/coaching decisions and a plethora of unfortunate injuries, the team has been forced to play and rely on this younger, inexperienced talent more than they would like in this early going.

Quit acting like this team needs to dominate every single down, it’s just not going to happen, so get over it. Were injured, young, and there are still 10 more games to play, 10 more games to get better, 10 more games to get these problems fixed. Just because certain aspects on this team is less than the desired or expected result, doesn’t mean the sky is falling, it just means the Seahawks are facing a lot of adversity, and will become better for it, down the road.

Quit being overly critical and emotionally dramatic. I get it, you’re a fan, you’ve spent hundreds and thousands of your money on this product. You’ve created countless web identities, and spent a good portion of your life, absorbing everything you can about the game of football. You have an opinion. You have every right to say whatever the hell you want.
But in my opinion, does it give us the right to be so ungrateful and disrespectful towards every player that makes a mistake or error.

If you want to be hopeless, go ahead, but the perfect team doesn’t not always win the Super Bowl. It’s usually the team with the most to overcome, the team who grinded out wins through countless trials of adversity.
And the Seahawks are 5-1. Get over it.

Seahawks beat:
0-0 Panthers team @ Carolina
1-0 49ers team
0-3 Jaguars team
2-1 Texans team @ Houston
3-2 Titans team

Seahawks lost to:
4-1 Colts @ Indianapolis by 6 points

Other than JAX each team the Seahawks played had a winning record or the advantage (0-0 @ CAR) when we played them. Panthers were potentially a 1-0 team. 49ers were potentially a 2-0 team. The Texans were essentially a 3-1 team. The Titans were potentially a 4-2. And most of those teams above have quality defenses.

Whatever you think you know about this team, just quit hating, and lets see what the final product is at the end of the season when its going to matter the most.

Why so serious? Why so negative? Why so hopeless? Why so pessimistic? Who so hateful?

Seahawks are 5-1, I have tremendous gratitude for this team, even if they aren’t playing as well as they should and continue to make plenty of mistakes. Whether if its just youth, aggressive nature, or stupidity.

But in the end we are being competitively spoiled here in Seattle compared to a majority of teams in the NFL, and a lot of you have the nerve to act like ungrateful jerks and think you can do a better job than these players or coaches.

Get over it. Seahawks are 5-1.

Christ, sunshine pumpers are $&@*^! annoying.

I'm talking about the post, not the poster.

 

[OreIdahawk]

I agree with just about everything the OP said. From hearing a lot of people on this board you would think we were the Steelers! Do some of you even realize that we have never won a superbowl, and that we are having the best start to a season in franchise history? We do not have the 6 superbowl standard to be bitching and moaning about every little thing that goes wrong. I'm fine with a little justified criticism here and there, but its gotten belligerent (especially towards Wilson) on here at times. I know that a lot of the "complainers" don't mean anything by it, its just their way of coping. However, it just comes off as whiny, annoying, and straight up ungrateful. We need to embrace these next few seasons because we may never have a team this talented again!


5-1! Soon to be 6-1!

 

[ClumsyLurk]

These types of posts are just the worst. This is a forum where people come to share their opinions. Nothing we do or say here can possibly affect the games being played. Yet we have the forum police out in full gear: you're not a good fan unless you say the hawks are perfect in any and every way. I wonder what our conversations would be like? "Hawks had a great game."" No way, hawks had an awesome game." " no man hawks had the besyest of the awesomest gamepossible to human kind!"

By far, in all the years I've been a part of .NET, nothing pisses me off more than when a fan tries to tell all other fans how we all should think and feel.

As if they have the corner market on the Perfect Way To Be The Perfect Fan.

LET FANS SIMPLY BE FANS WITHOUT CALLING THEM OUT FOR NOT FEELING LIKE YOU DO.

ukeface:

on the Sherman int, I was screaming through cupped hands yelling from the north endzone to the south. After the pick I told my bro that it was all me because I was an oscillating fan.

He told me STOP BEING SILLY AND TAKE THIS MORE SERIOUSLY, SILLY FANS ARE A POX ON OUR FANBASE.

Thankfully through all the bitching back and forth none of it mattered and Sherman still made the play.

Plenty of room on the fanwagon.

 

[ImTheScientist]

And I Thought We Had One Of The Best Fanbases

I too was disappointed when I first realized how some behave. Thing is its just "some".....try to not let it spoil things for you. If you read into a lot of the "downers" posts they lack substance. Some of these guys are either new fans or just don't follow the NFL that much. Just point out the errors in their post and move along.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

5-1, tied for #1 seed. Nothing else matters.

 

[Largent80]

Nobody is forcing anyone here to read.

There will always be scrutiny of every microsecond of every play and player. Get used to it, or don't read, pretty simple.

 

[Brahn]

Some people want us to be up big early so you can just coast, chit chat, and enjoy the game. Some people like me love the close ones, the games where you are constantly standing and yelling. Some people actually do not watch football. Some people like to drive yellow cars. I have learned in my life to let people do what they want as long as it does not negatively effect me. Once you understand people do things for a reason, either smart or idiotic is easier to just brush aside those who invite misery. Just means more fun stuff for the rest of us.

 

[nIdahoSeahawk]

I understand the frustration much of the fanbase is having with how we've played the last 3 weeks, BUT... I agree with the OP, people are way to down on everything all the time. There are people on this board that will hunt their DVR's for something to bitch about after a flawless win, not just the close ones. That's the biggest issue

 

[hawk45]

First off, I didn't mean to disrespect anyone ... I kind of was in a hurry writing this and it kind of just came for from the heart.

I'm not trying to tell anybody how the feel or what to think or even believe.

Everybody out there will make those choices themselves.

And like I stated in my original post, as fans "every one can say whatever the hell they want"

My opinion though... is that I'm proud and honored my team is 5-1, I have my doubts, plenty of them. But this team is Awesome. We are definitely spoiled to be part of this. Its exciting. If some of these injuries situations happened between 2003-2012, we'd be 3-3 at best. And we all know what happens when O-Lines suffer multiple injuries in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 for starters.

Again, feel whatever you want to feel, say whatever you want to say, I just some people, even myself at times, and just have an opinion without having to trash certain players or even the team in general because they are perfect or dominant every time. I wish some people can see the hard work and effort these players are giving, and how ugly it is, and that's every game this season, even the Jacksonville win was ugly, most of the wins since 2011 have been ugly. And the Seahawks have been competitive for a long time, 31 straight games with a losing differential of 7 points or less.

There's just too much focus on the negative, intelligent focus and you get sucked into the analysis or hate, and it just starts consuming the reality of today, that this team sits atop of the NFC (5-1, 2-0 vs NFC) and the team now controls its own destiny with 10 conference games and an important head to head match-up in a Home game vs the currently 5-1 Saints.

And if others can influence me with their negativity, can possibly attempt to make that audience to look up and know this is a time for celebrating. I can't remember the last time the Seahawks were 5- 1 off the top of my head, and it doesn't help that I'm a little celebratory drunk right now after having to work a 10-7pm shift thus missing the game.

Again I am sorry. I truly apologize Seahawks.net. I merely was trying to be ironic in my OP, I thought I could be overwhelmingly and influentially positive as much as some people are being unnecessarily pessimistic to downright jerks trashing on the players and the team, and more tone became more condescending and direct. So my apology if I offended anyone.

People start trashing my team, I'm going to stick up for them, you know.

Go 'Hawks.  

Excellent. First we start with the patronizing, sanctimonious first post telling other fans how to think. Fans react with predictable scorn.

Then because there's a sentence in the original post about how fans can say whatever the hell they want, it's all the rest of the fans who are misinterpreting things. Or we misunderstood the "irony." Boy all the other fans just can't seem to get anything right can they? The entire point of the OP was to wag a finger at other fans. But gee-whiz, shucks, sorry if anyone was offended.

Telling other fans what to think is exactly what the first post was. A non-apology apology just digs the hole deeper. Hey thanks for finally giving everyone permission to be a fan in their own way though, that's swell. Non-apology not accepted thanks.

It's easy to tell if a post is just positive (vs condescending). The post talks about why the poster has high hopes and spirits, and doesn't say a word about other fans.

 

[Brahn]

People start trashing my team, I'm going to stick up for them, you know.
 

This is my favorite, I love the ones who have to "stick up" for a bunch of millionaires. What you are REALLY standing up for is your validation on rooting for a specific team. You are no different then when " I need to teach him a lesson for walking in my hood and disrespecting me" You have the same childish mentality as those jackaroos. Always trying to "prove" something that is unprovable. Root for your team, a guy calls your QB a midget guess what? That midget is living that guys dream. Hater Gonna Hate, stop fueling the fire.

You gain no Hawks street cred, endorsement deals, or player friendships. In the end the best you can hope for is validation. Once you get o a certain age or mental state you realize you no longer have to validate yourself to others.

 

[HawkAroundTheClock]

For me, the #1 problem with this kind of critique is that it is a lazy generalization. "You guys" or a "fanbase" is composed of thousands of individuals. It takes more time and effort, but if you really want to invoke a change you need to address the specific posts that trouble you. Ask questions and try to figure out exactly why a person feels the way they do. Generalizing confuses people, causes some to become defensive, and creates an unnecessary "us vs them" scenario.

This is not a directive, but a suggestion/reminder of constructive feedback: If anyone feels there is too much unfounded, unspecific negativity, either confront it directly or counter it with unfettered joy and positivity. It is possible to post sunshine without broad, veiled accusations of the shadows.

 

[HawkMeat]

You thought correct. HAWKS have one of the BEST fanbases!!!

If you think otherwise because of some comments on the internet I have a bridge to sell you.