When Is It OK To Give Up On Your Team For The Season?

When Is It OK To Give Up On Your Team For The Season?Drew Magary's Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday during the NFL season. Buy Drew's new book, The Postmortal, through here. Find more of his stuff at his Twitter feed.

There are three winless teams in the NFL right now—Miami, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. The Rams have been devastated by injuries. The Dolphins are clearly mailing it in to get Andrew Luck. And everyone is eager to kick the Colts in the fucking throat while they're writhing helpless on the ground. These three teams are hopeless. They aren't going to turn it around. If they're lucky, they'll eke out a few wins and scrounge up a 4-12 record to walk away with at the end of the season. They're done.

And that's where being a Colts, Rams, or Dolphins fan gets a little bit dicey. As we've said here before, one of the reasons the NFL has become such a success over the years is because it's managed to make people fans of EVERY team, and not just their own. The problem is when your passion for the league in general threatens your passion for your childhood team. Ideally, your love for the Dolphins or whoever is supposed to override that of any other team. But man, that's hard to do when your team is 0-5 and starting Matt Moore at QB. More »

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