BLACK PIT of NEGATIVE EXPECTATIONS
The BPONE is a state of
mind in which no part of a football game is enjoyable because it is merely a prelude to some pratfall
made more embarrassing and or painful by whatever minimal, temporary successes are experienced prior to the pratfall. Thus a kick return touchdown—that rarest butterfly, one the game is steadily trying to erase—during which your author's only reaction was internal and, I quote, "whoop-
de-damn-do."