ShermanAndGreg Technology and Business

Ventifact|2.3.08 @ 3:36PM|#
At the risk of moving this thread in the direction of
interesting discussion…

Just found out there was a team representing your area of the
country this decade, right?

Millions of people who don’t give a flying fuck about the teams
involved suddenly become massive raving fans of one or the
other.

It’s actually comically pathetic.

How exactly do teams “represent” an area? What characteristics or
interests of an area do they carry forth? Teams are traditionally
run by jerking cities into massive handouts equivalent to taxing a
region and giving the results to rich owners. And a team takes on
its location’s characteristics… uh, maybe by naming itself after
some random feature of its hometown? (Which is probably obsolete
anyway.)

As for fans, nothing perplexes me quite like the near-universal
notion that the acts of paying close attention to a team’s progress
and hoping your darndest the team wins entitles you to a share of
the glory when they win. Don’t get me wrong — I don’t think pro
sports are worthless, or that being interested in sports is silly.
But the weird mutual ownership thing teams and fans express for
each other makes me feel… weird. Hmm. I must be a
libertarian?
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