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Warbler said:
I don't what to say. To me, watching sports is fun. When you are talking about a team sport, the team represents some entity, be it a city, a highschool, a college, or even a nation(the Olympics). Its really not about pride in the 18-22 year olds, its about pride in what they represent. When they win, your city/school/country wins, you win. When they lose, you lose. When you cheer on a team for your whole life, after your father and grandfather did as well, you tend to get attached to the team. You tend to live and die by them(not literally, but figuratively).
I agree with Warbler. Sports are fun. They aren't for everybody and people can be WAY too into it. But if your idea of fun is rooting for your team and showing an insane amount of school pride, I'm not going to look down on what you enjoy. Unless your idea of being a fan gets you in fist-fights, I'm cool with it.
I lived in Knoxville for a number of years. The people in the house next door to me had a hearse that they painted orange and white with the schools logo on the side. Every weekend in fall, they'd load up a cooler and barbeque in the back and headed out to the game.