I've been writing about WSU football at CougCenter for eight years, and there are times when I can see obvious ways in which watching every minute of every one of those mostly terrible games has affected me.
Like when WSU beat Oregon State back in 2010. The Cougs won their first conference game in nearly two years ... and I didn't even really enjoy it all that much. First, I kept waiting for it all to fall apart. Then, once it was clear the game was in hand, all I could focus on was how it didn't seem like the performance was actually repeatable and we still probably were doomed going forward.