PLEASE.
We will never stop loving you. We don't know how.
You seem to know that, and maybe we've resented you for your casual indifference to our continued, unceasing devotion, and maybe that's all deserved, but your defense is ridiculous and maybe we just want that one year where the shortcomings of our football team do not matter in the end, because pretty bad teams make the playoffs every year and why the fuck not us, why not this year, why not a miracle for the holiday season, for a region that has already lived through five winters worth of cold and snow in the last month, a region that keeps coming back for more because it knows that there's much more to being a fan of this team than whether it wins or loses, a region that deserves the release of taking that 15 year old monkey off its communal back, sighing deep, sweet relief and dancing so hard that it invites all the goddamn celebration penalties that Roger Fucking Goodell can rationalize ... so please.
Win this fucking game.