I don't know how to come back from this

We all chose a leisure activity where the sheer math dictates that in the long term it's going to make you unhappy many more times than the number of times you feel that ecstasy of winning. But yet we all still do it and the end of that game won't change it for most of us. We absolutely got robbed and all of the reactions here are 100% justified but come July when training camp starts most of us will be right back at it. We won't forget but there's a point where the future of a new season becomes much more tangible and then that's what we focus on, knowing we're going to put ourselves through this all again. I wouldn't have it any other way. Sports is one of the few things in life where you can completely invest your emotions into something that you know you have very little control over. For me that is cathartic. You ride the waves as they come and it's a shared experience.

I've only made one or two other posts on this board but my first was about how I came to be a Saints fan. The fandom of the Saints is different than I had experienced with my former team. You all are fans the way I always felt I was a fan but with the prior team I felt like the outlier. Now I feel like one of the masses of just pure fans and it's great. I've now endured the most brutal back to back endings to seasons that maybe any fan base has ever dealt with but I wouldn't have it any other way. I've always been fascinated by what the team meant post-Katrina and the role it played in the city coming back. They came back from the brink of not being in New Orleans then, and they will come back from this. I'm happy to now be counted amongst you.