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TotW: Thank You

Thoughts of the Week. It's too long to fit in a title anymore. So yeah, I get to use a cool little nickname thing. You're jealous.

Only one thought this week. Thank you.

Thank you to all of you people who make SB worthwhile.

Thank you to SB writers for news, although not original, it's nice to get news from SB, therefore limiting the amount of sites we must visit. Thank you Colin for links to other sites, for those of us who are too lazy to go other places ourselves.

Thank you for original content. Thank you Collin and emiller17, for the positional reviews on the 2010-2011 Colts. While not always agreed by everybody, the positional reviews were a good read, and sparked good discussion. Thank you nopunintended for the "Year in Review" series. It may need some editing from time to time, but that's what your editor's for. It's nice for us Colts fans to know what's going on with the rest of the league. Thank you emiller17 for the Know Your Colts History series. Always nice to reminisce about the things we remember, or learn about the things we don't. Thank you mgrex03 for the stats crunching, and for organizing the Community Draft, Picks, and Prop Bets.

Thanks to all of you who provided the outstanding coverage on the combine. That was one of the best things I've seen by the writers of this site in a long time. Whether that was your tweets, comments on the open threads, or stories about interviews, times, and just plain old fun; it was all great, and made the entire combine period much more informative than it has been in the past, at least for me.

That's about it for the site. I'm of the opinion that SB Nation is what it is due to the large number of fans who put their time and effort into intelligent discussion and analysis of teams with respect for each other. In fact, even Stampede Blue itself is a part of this viewpoint, as the bottom of every fanpost says the following (emphasis mine):

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors.

I truely believe this, and this is why I would like to take the rest of this FanPost to thank the members of Stampede Blue.

First, thank you to all of the people who write FanPosts. I enjoy reading your opinions (as much as I may disagree), trade ideas (as ridiculous as they may be), and draft obsessions (unless it's about Cam Newton). In my opinion, there a lot of these that deserve to be promoted to the front page, such as recent posts such as positional analyses by YeahItsDanny or Candlebox's draft and FA profiles, just to name a few. There's been many other quality fanposts posted by, but not limited to: NoCuddleOffense, ColtsFan504, DevilsReject (a bazillion game recaps that were always great), nickfromnaptown, radtad, Dfree, PorkinS2, Mr. Indianapolis Colts, etc. I know I'm missing quite a few, so if there's any specific post you'd like to call attention to, please to so in the comments.

Thank you to all of you who comment regularly, making conversation and providing information to other members.

Thank you Ty46, chad72, and metal_militia (as well as many others) for joining Colin, Matt, and Eric in the open threads, and providing a lot of different perspectives on different players. Thank you RamblinWreck7 for being pretty much everywhere (seriously, I think he's commented on everything on this site), keep it up! Thanks to newer members like kmbryant09 and ItsAlways18 who've immediately made an impact. Thanks Bloodninja, Naptime, and 87 Rides a Surfboard for unique brands of humor. Thank you ISW, deywalka, and trueblue1984 for genuinely making my day multiple times. Thanks to all of the other commenters who regularly provide great football analysis, like redmid17, 88steve, Dito29, Shake (when you're around), Hetfield, Mark Olsen, and a billion other people who are slipping my mind at the moment. (sorry bout that. I love you all, I promise).

And thank you to the Treehouse gang. Thanks for your Ricky Martin haircuts, homer glasses, hateraide, cookies, and Chihuahua girlfriends. You make me laugh on a daily basis.

Seriously, there are a lot of great things about this blog, but the most important are the members. Without all of you, this place would be a dump. Keep up the chatter!

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors.