"We don't want to go back to Queen's. We don't like playing there particularly. It's a different feeling. We don't like their field. We don't like their stadium. We don't like their stands. We don't like their locker-room. There's not a lot we like there."
-Western quarterback Michael Faulds prior to the Oct. 17th Queen's-Western game that would decide which team has home field advantage throughout playoffs
Mike, that sure is a whole lot of bitch*ng and complaining. This is however a learning opportunity for everyone. There is a little something called cognitive dissonance and that is the mental strategy our little friend Michael here is attempting to use. Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The "ideas" or "cognitions" in question may include attitudes and beliefs, the awareness of one's behavior, and facts. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, or by justifying or rationalizing their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. In Michael's case, his pride and self image are contrary to having his a$$ handed to him during the game. He is trying to rectify that for himself with these statements. BUSTED.
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