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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Half Empty" data-source="post: 742917" data-attributes="member: 10288">Once again, it's all about expectation.  The 70s and 80s didn't bother me all that much, as I knew, going in, that they weren't winning the trophy.  Hence, many individual games, often several in a season, were our SBs - knocking off a specific rival, keeping another team from the playoffs, that sort of thing.  For way too long, the Packers have been like an NBA team - wade through the regular season, (almost guaranteed) make the playoffs, then settle down and see who wins the only thing that counts - the Lombardi.  Not a baseball guy, but I was thinking about Cubs fans - a couple of years ago, how joyful would they be to participate in a second playoff series?  This year, how bummed will they be with anything less than the World Series?  To paraphrase the above, if you follow a team that is constantly in the playoffs, gets knocked out early, and that still makes you happy....</blockquote>

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