re: The Darkest Days (of My Football Life)

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Has fatherhood made football less important, or is the football I'm watching just really that bad

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Sounds like you're bad at fathering winner kids.

My first son was born in August of 2002 and was around and "in" Tiger Stadium for the AU game in 2001 that sent LSU to it's first SECCG and the beginning of this historic run. His birth ushered in the first SEC Championship for LSU in the SECCG era and then a second in 2003 plus the first NC since 1958.

Second son was born in April of 2007...SEC Title and NC...again.

Sadly, I'm done...so the golden age may be over.

ETA: But as others have said, LSU football, as much as we like to pretend it isn't, is simply entertainment for 99.9% of us. The fact that so many of our fans allow it to rule their lives and bring them joy/sadness in such levels is kind of the problem.

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but I have literally "grown tired" of watching the same bad movie every Saturday

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159-48 since 2000, #2 in the nation among power 5 schools, is your idea of a "bad movie every Saturday"???

What LSU football did you watch before 2000?

I can understand disappointment over this or that, but when that disappointment so clouds your vision that you label it as "bad movie every Saturday", you might want to step away and try to gain a little perspective. imo

Having a kid has certainly made the losses easier to handle. Perspective is everything.

Congrats on becoming an adult with proper priorities! Football is just a game and should be for entertainment win or lose, not as something to schedule your life around and dictate your mood.

Step 1: remember the 90's
Step 2: give no credit to Saban
Step 3: count les miles wins
Step 4: pretend les is the GOAT coach
Step 5: repeat step 3
Step 6: stay in denial
Step 7: repeat all steps

Are you asking the Internet how to tell if you are tired?

I truly enjoy the keyboard gangsta's and overly sensitive idealist. All Internet message boards would be lifeless without you guys.

If you read the original post, and came away thinking that I am lacking in the parenting department, then their is no need to address your comprehension skills, as they are very apparent.

With any thread, it is expected that the overly angry, non sensibles will reveal themselves. I can only laugh, as those guys (or girls) really make my day.

To those that provided some thoughtful insight in response to the original post...

It is comforting knowing that some posters can actually read something in context, and reply without needing to be idiotic.

P.S.
A few years ago, I guy posted that I was a, dumb, minimum wage, basket pusher for a living..(this is paraphrasing, the actual post was much more detailed :-).
Because I said that DJ welter was a weakness on our defense.
I was literally rotflmmfao!

As I am now.

All three of mine are in college now. I'd trade a whole lot of LSU & Saints wins from the past to have them young and back home again. As much as I love LSU, those years with my kids living under my roof were truly our glory years.

Yes, we are struggling with empty nest - especially since my wife of 25 years was diagnosed with cancer 2 weeks before Christmas. As others have said, enjoy fatherhood!