You know, it is funny but I am kind of relieved when my favorite teams lose anymore. It sort of puts me out of my misery. As a life long fan of the Browns, Indians, Cavaliers and Buckeyes I have been conditioned to expect failure at some point. The Buckeyes championship a few years ago is the only time I haven't been disappointed by the time a season is all said and done. When you think about it, that is a whole lot of disappointing seasons. 30+ years times 4 seasons a year with only one championship is some pretty lousy math to contemplate.
In reality I am happier that they lost today than if they had won this game but then lost to Michigan. Michigan stomping our championship dreams might have been too much to bear. If they had won those two and then lost in the championship game after weeks and weeks of build up it would have been pretty hard too. Trust me, I went through that last year and it sucked!
I took pretty much the same approach when the Indians lost in game 7 of the ALCS. I figured at least they didn't lose the World Series again. I had no buffer for the Cavaliers getting beat in the NBA Finals other than Lebron being very young and him having many years left to lead us to the promised land.