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You do it to exercise and to excise your tribal instincts. What's special about a tribe? You can't leave it. Someone quipped that you can leave your wife and yo
by lordnacho 6y ago
You do it to exercise and to excise your tribal instincts. What's special about a tribe? You can't leave it. Someone quipped that you can leave your wife and you can leave your job, you can't leave your club.
In truth if you've ever had a friend who changed clubs after the age of 10 they've been ridiculed for decades since.
- lovegoblin 6y agoThis doesn't answer the question, though. Why?
- weston 6y agoOften, sports helps build civic pride in one’s hometown, and it allows a town’s citizens to have a common ground to bond over.
- lordnacho 6y agoWhy do I follow a team, the same team? Because that tribal instict, it is against programming to change. Once you have picked you are Mormom-married (apparently the Mormons stay married in the afterlife?). A friend dragged me in. There are people who are buried with the banner of their club, and the family considers it an honour to have representatives present at the funeral. I watch plenty of games by other clubs, I just don't care in the same way. Ronaldo or Messi would never play for my team, but I appreciate them in a sort of intellectual, emotionally distant way. Like how I watch NFL games, it's an interesting sport with strategically appealing elements. Do I really care whether Mahomes or Brady takes it? Nah.
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