c_hawkbob wrote:I am not one bit embarrassed by that 2010 Banner! We were beat up most of the year but we did what we had to do to win the division, then in the face of all the 'teams with losing records shouldn't be in the playoffs" shouting going on we proved our worth as a playoff team by knocking the defending Super Bowl Champs out of the playoffs to advance!
If you advance in the playoffs, particularly if you did so by knocking off the defending champs you belonged in the playoffs!
I hope that banner hangs forever!
I remember that playoff game for the Beast Quake run more than I do beating a defending SB champ in our own house. Heck, last season the defending SB champ didn't even make the playoffs. I doubt that they'll have a reunion day to celebrate the achievements of the 2010 season.
I'm not saying I would have rather not have won the division or that we didn't deserve to be in the playoffs, but the fact is that history will remember the 2010 season as an answer to a trivia question (Name the only NFL team to win their division with a losing record) until someone else backs into the playoffs at 7-9 or worse. It's not an embarrassment, but it's nothing to be bragging about, either, which is essentially what hanging the banner in the rafters is doing. I'd rather see that banner in a glass case behind the checkout counter in the stadium pro shop.