'To make myself feel better.'
OK, that makes sense. Must make supporting a team a risky move, what happens to all the fans when the team moves? Do they stick by them?
One of the most popular football teams in Germany is the BVB, a publically traded stock company. How much more corporate entity can an entity be?
Was that there before already? It is new to me. But yes, it is an explanation, one, however, that I think is strange as the same logics applied to someone who likes e.g. Mario (or any other video game thing) as much as you do the sports team (or franchise, because you would probably not change allegiencies if all people working at the team would mass exodus to another one?) would lead to heavy side eyes even in a very enthusiast forum (and, semantically, I maintain it is not correct).
If you ask me, the selfish and self-centered behavior at display here doesn't seem to be coming from these hypothetical revelers.
I do not feel superior to sports fans (neither to those who use this phrasing), I just have an issue with this, because I think it is unfair to attribute other people's successes to oneself. If it is purely emotionally, then this is fine, because you cannot control it, but if it is linguistically, then it is a deliberate dicision to do so. Also, I have a strong inclination towards correctness and clarity in language, so I have issues with all kinds of deliberate imprecisions.
If you keep equating 100+ year old local institutions with video games, then you are never going to understand our viewpoint.
You listen to Muse, we get it.
I thought the old firm had calmed right down in recent years?
Fans still say we when the team is performing terribly and there are no achievements to claim. It is just a convenient way to show a personal connection to a team.
Performing one action that I deem unfair and illogical does not make them inferior beings. I perform acts that are illogical and unfair, as well, not deliberately so (because I may not see that this is the case), but I assume most sports fans do not do this with bad intentions either. It would be preposterous to to infer superiority over a group of people for doing one illogical or unfair thing one does not do oneself.
There are so many things in regard to this
Just remember, the people getting upset at "we really messed up that game", are the same people that say "We really want this feature in *VIDEO GAME*."
But the latter is semantically completely fine, because they are saying that they themselves, as well as potentially other fans who share their opinion, have a certain desire. You may think this desire is strange or irrelevant, but the sentence is completely fine.
Legendary german meme.
