That when you’ll only hear from the customers when they’re unhappy…when they’re happy they’d rather drive the car than write the company about it.

Of course there’s another saying that represents the other end of this debate from my time in the military (made in “The Thin Red Line” but it’s an actual train of thought). “Only time you have to worry about a soldier is when he stops bitching.” The application to football blogs being that once the team gets bad enough then people will also stop writing in to complain because they’ll simply no longer care what the team does. I may very well hit that point if Peterson gets that indefinite extension.

For the record, though, I’d still comment even if things were good…it’s a lot more fun talking about how we match up in a game when we’re in a contest of more or less equals rather than predicting we’re going to get our asses kicked every week (and being right most of the time).