Honestly, after watching the games this weekend, I really wanted to do the Chargers or the Seahawks. But the Dirt Clippers did themselves with the move to LA, and they both deserve their pain & are all-but-dead to this site, so I don’t even want to cover their misery. The Seahawks seemed like they’d be an easy cover, but I already did them this season, and the majority of tweets on their site were simply versions of this
and this
But then the Steelers game happened,
and Twitter did not disappoint
And there’s always that one person who just needs to cross that line…
And I figured, despite the Steelers 11-3 record and my adherence to covering teams far above or below .500, I had a pretty easy topic for the week.
But then, there was the evening game…
So, I settled on the Raiders, after they did themselves in Sunday night versus the Cowboys.
We all know what happened, but let’s enjoy it again
Because he made the error of owning it accepted responsibility right after the game.
We left it all out there. We will keep growing and fighting! Keep the faith! #RaiderNation
— Derek Carr (@derekcarrqb) December 18, 2017
And some fans were appreciative of the effort
But others…
Balls?
Which just led Carr to call out the h8rz & remind people of faith to keep theirs
It doesn’t always make sense.. but you just keep fighting. #LosersQuit #KnowWhoseYouAre https://t.co/nnGF40Uv0z
— Derek Carr (@derekcarrqb) December 18, 2017
Which, happily, was more echo chamber
than asshole
In what I was able to divine as something akin to a miracle, Raiders Fan didn’t seem Philly Fan enough to go onto a player’s page and drop bombs on their effort. It was probably because they respected the effort.
That got saved for the team’s social media.
Twitter, as you can imagine, wasn’t very happy,
A tough one to swallow.
Four observations from #DALvsOAK in the Quick Snap: https://t.co/HSTA18YknV pic.twitter.com/omSeXKwa5g
— Las Vegas Raiders (@Raiders) December 18, 2017
But most of the bile & venom were reserved for the coaching staff.
And then Raiders PR had to go fan the flames
Thank you to the 55,372 fans in attendance for tonight's final home game of the 2017 regular season.
Another @RAIDERS sellout. #RaiderNation
— Raiders PR (@RAIDERS_PR) December 18, 2017
With the fans offering plenty of reminders that the teams is more beloved elsewhere than the city they are eventually abandoning.
So, with that, Monday marked the end of a day of intense emotion in the living rooms of certain fanbases.
Gesinjoroj, your wild & varied emotions of Raiders’, and others, social media.
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Counterpoint: this was rational and raiders fans should be livid
I cannot confirm nor deny that I’m Davood Mehmandoost.
I still say, in spite of lost bets and FF contests, I really enjoyed NFL Anarchy Sunday. Every week should be like that.
Without the lost bets and FF contests tho.
“I was there. Eat shit.” truly says it all.
Also, a tattoo’d goatee looks painful.
and the nose and eyebrows wouldn’t be?
/assumes most were done until the influence of something, legal or otherwise
His “eyebrows” are the works Looks Are Deceiving.
I am quite confident in my judging in this case.
Worry not, I feel certain ample vodka and heroin were involved.
I think you mean krokodil and fentanyl.
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The faces of krokodil makes the faces of meth look attractive,
/wakes up
//wipes drool from chin
Shit. What’d I do now?
The AFC West has been straight up….
Weird!
KC leading at 8-6 and they’re about the biggest underachiever in the league this year (sans OAK). Everyone is decent at home but struggling on the road (DEN especially but who actually thought they’d do anything with that QB selection this year?). I mean, KC could win out to go 10-6, which is an acceptable record for a playoff team but still….
Either way, it looks like the AFC West champ will be this year’s example of “why does this team get to host a playoff game against a superior wild card selection?”
Yeah, but it’s the AFC. Hard to make an argument that any of the wild card teams are particularly good considering the Raiders are STILL in the running at 6-8.
is it just me or does Carr look like he’s wearing eyeliner. It makes me think that he’s all goth.
Yes! I’ve said that since day one! And then the Jesus/God stuff gets in the way of the Cure fanboy fiction.
Sigh.
I felt the weight of that from here.
Jack Del Rio fucking quoted fucking Al Fucking Pacino’s fucking pregame speech from Any Given Fucking Sunday before they play Motherfucking Dallas.
¡LL COOL J KNEW TO JUMP OUT OF BOUNDS THREE YARDS FROM THE ENDZONE, GOD-BOY! ¡AND HE WAS PLAYING A THINLY-VEILED NEON DEION STAND-IN!
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“Damn Bobby, why didn’t you tell me I was working for the wrong brainwashed, old man obsessed fan base.”
-Jerry Sandusky
Whaddaya MEAN moral victories don’t count in the standing OR get you into the playoffs, Dan?!
Doing this has become one of my favoUrite Monday rituals.