Lawtonfunk, in a post on his blog, expands on the topic of TWS.

Dear Clemson Fans,
This feeling you are having . . . this despair that leads you to leave a game early, and want to fire the coach. It’s called TWS, Tommy West Syndrome.TWS occurs when you win and feel like you’ve lost and/or when you lose and feel like you got kicked in the nuts.

If you suffer frequently from CCA, or Cardiac Cat Arrest, you may indeed develop TWS. Although the initial result of TWS is what seems to be a cure for CCA. You will quickly find that you have lost all heart. You continue to suffer with TWS and lose not only heart, but hope, love, joy, and pride. (Commonly known as Holtzing – ask an SC fan.) TWS can cause you to feel completely numb while watching Clemson Football. This numb despair can spread to watching football in general, to watching other sports, and eventually, to doing anything whatsoever that would require hope, pride, joy, heart, and “toughness.”

The side effects of TWS are plenty and let’s face it, brutal. TWS can cause you to:

I suggest that you click over to read the rest.

Posted on Friday, October 12th, 2007 at 10:55 am by Broken Gnome

Filed under Football.

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