🏈 What is your routine after losing?

[TideatMileHigh]

For some of you its probably Ibuprofen and Pedialite

 

[footballer]

Stick my head in a vice for about 30 minutes.

We are either going to win or lose any game. Got used to it a long time ago.

But I do Hate losing.

 

[Crimson&WhiteGecko]

Writing out thoughts on this board w/o hyper-reaction is part of my therapy. Just processing it helps me a great deal.

Also, I get sick of the pouty child antics that I go through after a loss. I am thankful that I have worship the next morning to clash with my selfishness. There was a time in my life, I was just an asshole after a loss (especially when 'Bama beats themselves) but that has subsided.

 

[Bammerboy321]

Discuss the loss here, then watch more football/basketball.

 

[PurlJam]

Like the game of golf.

Actually just came in from the driving range.

 

[PurlJam]

Like the game of golf.

This is what I think about when Talty misses a fg. Not gonna blast the kid for missing a kick on a bad snap. Yeah, the holder got it down for the kick, but just like in golf your timing and eyes are key to hitting a good ball. A bad snap screws up your timing and affects the eyes.

 

[BamaFan334]

I have mellowed a lot, but as anything else in my life, I say what I need to say and I can move on after the fact. I will certainly rehash my comments if asked and may still carry some language and emotion, but moving forward I'm usually good once I express my frustrations.

My concerns are my kids, because they are still young and learning to control their emotions. As soon as we lost I looked to my left and my son was visibly upset and he made the comment "now all the Georgia fans are going to run their mouth to me non-stop next week". That's the stuff that bothers me because it's like hyenas on a baby antelope. Only so much he can do before they pick him a part and I can't protect him (he's gota learn to manage these situations too). So from a mental aspect I just hope he doesn't hall off and hit one of them. Also what I'm getting at is parenting comes with all of this as soon as I think I'm done with it and moving on, this stuff happens. Even more to my emotions why I wanna beat Georgia's ass every time we play them. And with that, that's another reason I can easily move on, because at the end of the day, we are still ahead of them in the SEC Standings.

 

[Secondand26]

I have mellowed a lot, but as anything else in my life, I say what I need to say and I can move on after the fact. I will certainly rehash my comments if asked and may still carry some language and emotion, but moving forward I'm usually good once I express my frustrations.

My concerns are my kids, because they are still young and learning to control their emotions. As soon as we lost I looked to my left and my son was visibly upset and he made the comment "now all the Georgia fans are going to run their mouth to me non-stop next week". That's the stuff that bothers me because it's like hyenas on a baby antelope. Only so much he can do before they pick him a part and I can't protect him (he's gota learn to manage these situations too). So from a mental aspect I just hope he doesn't hall off and hit one of them. Also what I'm getting at is parenting comes with all of this as soon as I think I'm done with it and moving on, this stuff happens. Even more to my emotions why I wanna beat Georgia's ass every time we play them. And with that, that's another reason I can easily move on, because at the end of the day, we are still ahead of them in the SEC Standings.

I understand about the parenting part. My daughter was 10 during the 2010 debacle against the barn. I went to the basement to work on something after the game. My wife came down & told me our daughter was sitting in the van crying. I put up my tools & started back upstairs. She asked me “where are you going”? I said “I’m going to f*cking cry with her!”

 

[alabamajack]

Same as if we win. Way too many more important things going on in my life to dwell on something I can't control

 

[BamaFan334]

I understand about the parenting part. My daughter was 10 during the 2010 debacle against the barn. I went to the basement to work on something after the game. My wife came down & told me our daughter was sitting in the van crying. I put up my tools & started back upstairs. She asked me “where are you going”? I said “I’m going to f*cking cry wijudgements.

Yep, it's tough when the youngins are emotional about it. You never want them to hurt, want them to care about things in life, but also want them to battle and manage. It's a tough predicament and learning to properly manage that is even tougher.

My son does not cry, it's something we have worked on for yeats and he's well beyond most kids his age when it comes to pain, walking something off, and controlling himself, but he teared up last night and said thay about his friends at school. I told him to wipe his tears and tell them they still can't say a word because they lost to us, at home, and we are still ahead of them in the SEC, so what else can they say. I told him in these cases to use your brain and logic, noy your emotions and your fists.

 

[MunchyOs]

Some fellow Bama fan friends of mine just say that we are still the best team in all of college football and that we would mop the field with Ohio State if we played them tomorrow. And the go to "we can take back over college football anytime we want". I swear that's an exact quote! Well, anytime the Tide wants to take back over college football will be fine with me!

 

[Secondand26]

Yep, it's tough when the youngins are emotional about it. You never want them to hurt, want them to care about things in life, but also want them to battle and manage. It's a tough predicament and learning to properly manage that is even tougher.

My son does not cry, it's something we have worked on for yeats and he's well beyond most kids his age when it comes to pain, walking something off, and controlling himself, but he teared up last night and said thay about his friends at school. I told him to wipe his tears and tell them they still can't say a word because they lost to us, at home, and we are still ahead of them in the SEC, so what else can they say. I told him in these cases to use your brain and logic, noy your emotions and your fists.

But sometimes you really want to use your fists! Lol
And I really believe some people would benefit later in life from a pop in the mouth in their younger years. It would teach them that sometimes it’s better to just be quiet.

 

[rick4bama]

I started this sometime around November 14th 1995. Before it took a couple of day to get over it. That date was when my first grand kid was born.

My daughter's next child was born on the 29th of April! I told her that good, then her next our grand son was born on the 11th of November not only on Veteran Day . That day in 2000's Bama was playing Miss. St. Not a good day to be a Bama fan, but being a Pappa that was better. Now let me go back to my very first GD. Her first was November 5th 2016. The nurses kept me updated about that game. Her next two were born in April. Her last was to be born in November but she came early and was in September.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I didn’t have a routine per se for many years, but I’m starting to build one again. I vent in the GBU thread, swap texts with my brother, and ignore the incoming texts from my buddies of other fan bases. Then I go read through my Sunday school lesson and try to focus on that and what I will do Sunday afternoon. One good thing about losing so much the last 2 years is, said buddies text me less and less after we lose. It used to be a monumental celebration for them.

LOL, I forgot about the game day texts. I get a few here and there during the game, but don't respond until halftime or until the game is over 90% of the time. Depends on the person and the text. Always get several before the game, 1 of which is a former boos (good friend still) that sends me a "Roll Tide!" just before kickoff every single game, an has for years. After the game, more texts roll in (from various people I know, ranging from fotball dumb to football brilliant), how many depends on the game and outcome of course.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

My wife paid me a compliment last night. She asked before bedtime if Bama had won or lost. I told her lost. She replied that she was surprised because she could normally tell a mile away when Bama loses by my demeanor after the game. Evidence that I am not taking it so serious as maybe I did in the past.

Mine asked the same. I figure if she had to ask, I must have not been showing it. But honestly, I'm the same after the wins... I'm happy, but I don't run around the house hollering about it. So she still has to ask.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

For some of you its probably Ibuprofen and Pedialite

Lithium and a gas can for a select few.

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

I understand about the parenting part. My daughter was 10 during the 2010 debacle against the barn. I went to the basement to work on something after the game. My wife came down & told me our daughter was sitting in the van crying. I put up my tools & started back upstairs. She asked me “where are you going”? I said “I’m going to f*cking cry with her!”

Ha. I wish my little one cared about it that much...

 

[Nothing_But_A_Winner00]

I talk to my dad (Auburn fan). He's used to losing.

 

[Secondand26]

Ha. I wish my little one cared about it that much...

Her & another kid booed an old man wearing a barn cap at a PTO meeting when she five.
I was SO proud!

 

[doemasters]

I wake up the next day and still thankful I am not an Auburn fan