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Originally Posted by Detoxing
Because our fandom is part of our identity. So it's only natural that we make their success and failures personal.
For some of us, they represent us too. As a Chiefs fan in San Diego, there aren't many of us. So to my many friends and family over the years when they see the Chiefs, they think of me.
"Dang Detoxing must be so happy right now since they have Mahomes"
Or
"Dang, Detoxing must be pissed right now after that loss"
"I saw the Chiefs the other day, made me think of you...."
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Agree to all of this, but the overarching question is still why? It's a part of our identity because we have made it so...why do we do that?
I like the idea of tribalism and wanting to belong to a sort of "exclusive" group. We're Chiefs fans, unless you are one, you don't get it. Or we're Husker fans, or Mizzou or whatever team and sport. So I guess maybe the reason we care so much is that...we need to. We need to be a part of something that is bigger (although infinitely less important) than we are. We pride ourselves as human beings in being rational, but there is literally no rationality to being a fan of a sports team. It's all emotion. Maybe that's something as well...
I do know that I have a great love of the game of football, so my passion is there, and I've attached the Chiefs as the team that fulfill my passion for the game.
I can't and won't do fantasy football because I'd have to pay attention to other teams that I frankly don't give a shit about.
In that way, I'm a pure Chiefs fan (in college it's the Huskers). I may have some teams that I don't hate, but there is no other team for me than my Chiefs. Not sure how I got here since nobody in my family was a Chiefs fan, but there you go. I feel a part of something, and if we (see what I did there) win or lose, I'll always be a fan.