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Sports Fans Are Irrational

October 5, 2007 1:27 AM

efore you read any further, you should know that I don't know shit about baseball. And I want to keep it that way. The sport fucking sucks.

I was talking with Co-SME today about the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs. He explained that he hated Cubs cans because they were all arrogant assholes who thought that the Cubs were the best team ever, regardless of how awesome or not awesome the team actually is during any given season. Then he went on to tell me that the Brewers are "awesome." He then conceded that the Cubs played better than the Brewers this season, that they've been consistently better for at least fifteen years, and that the Brewers have pretty much sucked the fat cock for a long, long time. Still, he insisted that the Brewers are "awesome." I pointed out that he had just displayed the exact trait that made him hate Cubs fans--he thought his favorite team was great regardless of reality.

Then another question popped into my head: why root for the Brewers at all? "They're the hometown team," he said. I couldn't argue with that--I root for the Badgers for no reason other than that I went to the University of Wisconsin. I hate Michigan for no other reason than our longstanding feud.

So what's the deal--why do all sports fans think that their team is the best, even when they're clearly not?

Religion is one of those things where you just sort of have to respect someone else's opinion (within reasonable limits, of course). You can't really argue with someone about why they believe that Jesus died for their sins or that the Prophet ascended to heaven. Is being a sports fan the same way?

These are the things I'm thinking about now that I actually care about a team. It's realy strange.



1 Comments


dicta said:

i think some reasons for liking teams are extremely rational (hometown team, you went to the school, or maybe you really like/respect some of the players).

but i would separate liking a team and cheering for them from thinking the team is awesome. i am a patriots fan because i grew up in new england. for most of my life, they have been anything but awesome. but i still cheered for them. however, now, of course, they ARE awesome.

October 5, 2007 11:51 AM



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