Well at least we slag each other off on the internet, unlike, say football hooliganism where there's all sorts of violence in the stadiums and sometimes rioting and looting in the streets.
In defence of being a sports fan, at least most of the time the teams you're supporting are representing your city/country. So there is a sort of patriotic element to it. Though patriotism, when carried to extreme is pretty bad.
Funny then that people gripe about Japanese buying Nintendo/Sony and dissing MS, if we continue the sports comparison a Japanese person (who lives in Japan of course) being a Xbox fan would be like a Brazilian football nut being a fan of the English football team. Similarly for the Sony and Nintendo fans in the USA. But this is where the parallell falls over really, because corporations don't represent anything other than themselves, and the only objective reason to root for them is if you own shares.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
