This is a classic sports writing trope as well -- blaming a team's best player when the team doesn't succeed, as opposed to blaming all the chumps around him wh

This is a classic sports writing trope as well -- blaming a team's best player when the team doesn't succeed, as opposed to blaming all the chumps around him who were the real cause of the team's failure. See Alex Rodriguez and the Texas Rangers, Lebron James and the Cleveland Cavs, Landon Donovan and the US Soccer team, Peyton Manning and the early 2000s Colts, etc.