My brother burned all of his Husker clothing/gear or anything Husker related years ago. He gave up on the program completely. Doesn't even want to talke about it or the program anymore. I don't even know if he will relent if we ever start winning again. It's kind of funny TBH, but in a way more healthy than emotionally hoping/praying this team can even muster 1 winning season in 5 (or is it 6?) years and running. To say it has been a clusterfvck is an understatement.
I stil get pissed at losses I admit, and even still surprised (kind of) in the unbelievable amount of ways we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in most of our 29 losses these last 4 seasons. I often can't watch games live (sometimes I do, but often not), so I stay away from all internet, phone, media, TV - anything that could possibly spoil the final score and outcome of the game, so I can watch the game "clean" at a later point. But sometimes you still find out one way or another (a friend texts you something like "can you believe how they lost that game?" even though you told your friends to please not text as I can't watch the game live this week, or maybe you are eating at a restaurant that has TV's - I literally purposefully do everything I can to not look at any of the TV's, but somehow you just end up catching a glimpse of a ticker running at the bottom of an ESPN feed or another game or something and see - yes, they lost again). Part of me just wants to find out the score before I even watch the game from now on if I can't watch it live if they lost again, why waste my time. But where is the fun in that? Life is short, really. Might as well live it with real emotion and caring for things that have been or are important to you, even if that often ends up being painful, than numbing oneself so much that you just don't GAF anymore.
Kind of like being married maybe - you want to enjoy it - try real hard in the marriage, but it still often/usually dissapoints you more times than not. Hah. But kinda true.