So the Flames made the playoffs and Flames fans immediately started giving me stick about it.
Can't say I blame 'em, of course, because I spent the whole season basically beating a dead horse about how the team isn't good — it's not, by the way — and how the club would falter. It did not falter, and fans see this as a validation that they, in rooting for the team for arbitrary reasons, were correct in their analysis ("I think they're good because I like them") while the naysayers were wrong in theirs ("I've looked at a lot of data and they're not good").