Remember when football was fun to watch?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by reschief

I remember the suck teams of the 80's - cheering for Art Still to make a play because there wasn't much hope or talent to expect a great play from anyone else. This team feels the same way - maybe Charles breaks a run or Houston gets a sack - that's about it. You know you're going to lose, so you just hope to see your team make a play - pathetic and sad.

It's the inadvertent survival mechanism of the NFL. No matter how bad your team is, there are always a few players who are good, and you want to watch their career progress. Whether it's Art Still or Deron Cherry or Christian Okoye or Jamaal Charles, it keeps fans from completely disengaging when a team has a few bad decades.