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Originally Posted by Goodie
This is all very reasonable and I certainly can't argue with any of it. I just don't look at being a fan this way. When I watch a football game that the Pats are playing in, the only way I know how to think is that they will win that game. I just don't understand watching your team and not thinking they will win. It's always so much sweeter for me when my team wins (especially when against the odds like 01 or the 04 Sox) because I know that I believed in them winning. Sports are a diversion and should be treated as such. Save being a realist for things that really matter.
do you see how this can be tilting for fans of opposing teams, though? i mean, i'm a boston sports fan in montreal, so i have to continuously deal with habs fans (as well as boston haters etc) who are pretty much the most tilting fans i've ever been around because they (not all of them obv, but tiltingly many) approach every faceoff/period/game/season saying "were gonna kick all your asses, all the time!" without any bit of rationality, and it makes them look, in my eyes, as demanding/hard-to-please d-bags.
i try to be reasonable with my teams, not because i don't believe in them, but because rationality makes me feel like a more educated/reasonable fan, rather than blind/delusional/easy-to-hate
but then again you didn't quote me, this is just my view on this issue