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I am a fan, and I am suffering.  I know it just a game.  I have followed Stanford football for 35 years.  I love this game.  I love this school.  I will continue to be a fan.  I can live through the pain.  Maybe I will live long enough to see Stanford win a National Championship.  If not, I will still have lived a better life for being a Stanford fan.  Today it hurts, but I am a fan.

Well written, martyup.  I can honestly say that I would rather be a Stanford fan than win a national title with someone like Winston, and have an apologist like Jimbo Fisher as the coach.  If these kind of shenanigans were going on at Stanford, I would cease to be a fan.  I can unabashedly root for our team, because I can take pride in these kids, and all that they will accomplish in the future, outside of football, win or lose. 

With our recruiting and admissions limitations (and the Pac-12 refs), Stanford is always playing against a stacked deck, and as they say the house always wins.  Well, consider me a compulsive gambler then, because every year I'm betting big on Stanford with another piece of my heart.  Some may consider it foolish or even detrimental to my overall well-being, but trust me, dammit, one of these days, the payoff is going to be brobdingnagian. 

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I am a fan, and I am suffering.  I know it just a game.  I have followed Stanford football for 35 years.  I love this game.  I love this school.  I will continue to be a fan.  I can live through the pain.  Maybe I will live long enough to see Stanford win a National Championship.  If not, I will still have lived a better life for being a Stanford fan.  Today it hurts, but I am a fan.

Well written, martyup.  I can honestly say that I would rather be a Stanford fan than win a national title with someone like Winston, and have an apologist like Jimbo Fisher as the coach.  If these kind of shenanigans were going on at Stanford, I would cease to be a fan.  I can unabashedly root for our team, because I can take pride in these kids, and all that they will accomplish in the future, outside of football, win or lose. 

With our recruiting and admissions limitations (and the Pac-12 refs), Stanford is always playing against a stacked deck, and as they say the house always wins.  Well, consider me a compulsive gambler then, because every year I'm betting big on Stanford with another piece of my heart.  Some may consider it foolish or even detrimental to my overall well-being, but trust me, dammit, one of these days, the payoff is going to be brobdingnagian.