I noticed you left right after that comment, and it bothered me. You completely misunderstood what I was trying to say, but you entered the room in the middle of the conversation, so I guess that's understandable. The point I was trying to make was that the room was almost empty, when it should have been packed, but the reason so few people were there is that the game was nationally televised, so the moochers didn't bother to show up.
There are people like myself who are in that room regardless of how we're watching the game (more often than not I'm watching the game in a bar, last night I was in a hotel room) -- simply because we like to be with other Packers fans, particularly the community we've assembled here. The ones who only come to the room to mooch off the feed do indeed irritate me.
People don't have to be in the chat room to watch the feed, after all. If their sole purpose for using this site is to watch the feed, they might as well watch it directly on the Justin.tv channel.
The irony is you were doing exactly what I was saying people
should be doing -- coming to the room even if they're watching the game elsewhere. This is what I'm talking about when I say more people need to assume good faith. A quick "What do you mean?" would have prevented the misunderstanding.
And as for your own fomentations, RaiderPride, if you expect everyone to remain as sanguine as you do, no matter what happens, you're asking for personality changes. Just because you have a Driveresque grin plastered perpetually to your face doesn't mean everyone else has to. Nor does it mean they're any less loyal than you are. Yes, people like
nerdmann can be annoying -- even I've called him out a few times -- but that doesn't mean he's not a true Packers fan.
Either embrace the infinite variety of HUMANITY around you or pontificate from an ivory tower on the virtues of positive thinking, whichever you prefer, but for the love of God, stop accusing people of disloyalty, when unlike some of the more optimistic people you seem to like better,
these "disloyal fans" are present every week, game in and game out, good performances and bad. And unlike some of those same optimistic fans, they actually contribute to the discussions after the game.