Abusive sports fans. 0P

[Brian37]

If you are a WW2 soldier and kill a Nazi, I am with you. If you punch a rival sporting fan, sorry, if you instigate a sports fight, you deserve to be arrested. If you destroy public or private property, win or lose, you also deserve to be arrested. 

I have often at sports bars, shared a table with Washington rivals, such as Eagles or Cowboys or Giants. I hate it when Washington looses to any of them. But the fans and even the players are not like worrying about North Korea, or Stalin. I love nothing more than sharing a table with a rival fan, win or loose, share a pitcher of beer with them, and friendly trash talk, like "Take that" when we make a good play, or "Eat pocket lint" when their team gets one up on mine. Silly stuff like that.

Ok, I can see your point. But I’m still allowed to light people on fire if my team doesn’t make the World Badminton Finals, right?

Boru

If I lose at Yahtzee, I am entitled to nuke the winner.

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An aside. My late mother, as I may have mentioned in other threads, was always hyper competitive in sports. She actually never told me my entire life the extent of her Highschool or College sports participation. She played HS and college basketball and field hockey and soccer. She hated losing. But she was also a poor sport too. Regardless of a team game in an official setting, just between friends or family she hated losing board games. The funny thing, looking back at it now, she never reacted, at least within my eyesight, to losing to her adult peers, friends, co workers, in the same way she reacted to the rare times, very rare times, she lost to me, her son.

But as much as she huffed and puffed and stormed away losing to her son, the rare times she lost to me, she never would have reacted like sports fans do to strangers they don't know.