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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by x626xBlack They become smitten with a player and want to keep him forever, even after a few seasons prove that the player is not producing and needs to go. I have noticed this, too, and I think ...

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Old 09-19-2012, 01:00 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by x626xBlack View Post
They become smitten with a player and want to keep him forever, even after a few seasons prove that the player is not producing and needs to go.
I have noticed this, too, and I think the psychology of why people do this, actually goes back to the days when the team wasn't very good for so darn long. Back then there was this real love for certain players -- almost weepy, sentimental, bittersweet love -- for the good players on famously bad Saints teams. Like they were gods of the woulda, shoulda, coulda alternate universe that never was, the kings of IF ONLY. I mean going way back to Manning and Abramowitz and Stonebreaker, guys on the earliest teams, the Dome Patrol, the love people had for Bobby Hebert beyond all proportion to what he actually did, etc. etc.

Even long before free agency or fantasy football made this kind of thinking popular, Saints fans of long ago were keyed in on individual players on otherwise weak teams, and got emotionally attached to them...because you couldn't get emotionally attached to the whole team itself, because the team generally sucked so hard or the end result of the game was disappointing.

My theory on this is that some people have this thing where, if the HAPPY BUTTON gets pushed by a certain player, if they have a good experience with him, if he gets their endorphins zooming, they want to keep that player around and keep pushing that HAPPY BUTTON forever. ZAP. ZAP. ZAP. So, the players you named, that people are super attached to, I think they kinda fit that category, maybe?

Sharper is another one. He pushed people's HAPPY BUTTON a lot, and STILL to this day there are people over on SR who are like, "they should bring back Sharper for a tryout!"
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