[quote name='theredworm']it's a rivalry thing, I get the same way picking on university of kentucky as a louisville fan[/QUOTE]
but would you poke fun at Kentucky for losing in the Final 4 after they just ousted you from the Elite 8? that is the part that makes the least sense to me. though Venom seems to be in the minority with this approach, at least in this thread, but I got my fair share of Patriot fan texts last week and I just had to roll my eyes.
I would of course try to find pleasure in it too if the roles were reversed, but I don't know if I would parade it around if my team was the one out a week earlier is all. Or if my team didn't make it at all (Charger fans) or was out 2 weeks earlier (Chiefs fans), all of which I've heard it from. Its just feels like your kid brother trying to fight you or something, you just laugh and swat him away.
anyways! that's my two cents on fandom. This is just a specific example of something I never understood. Like Mets fans hating the Yankees, or vice versa. Who cares, they aren't even in the same league. I'll always be a Jets fan first and a Patriot hater a long distance second, but clearly that's not the norm.
edit: I clearly get rivalries. I like them. Though I don't think Mets/Yanks is more than a friendly rivalry because like I said before who gives a
? I never could muster up the hatred for the Yanks as a Mets fan, though I think a lot of that has to do with all of my Yankee fan friends (and there's a lot of them) feeling the same way. But yes, Sox/Yanks, Mets/Phils (or more long-term, Mets/Braves), Jets/Pats, etc, it's all fun stuff but like I said I'll never hate on a team more or even close to as equal to as much as I like my own team. /rant