Spectator sports should be fun. When you take this too seriously all the fun is squeezed out of it. Like when fans start beating each other up over it. Then it becomes like gang warfare. No fun there.
True but….
The late great A Bartlett Giamatti said of baseball… it breaks your heart. If is designed to break your heart.
Baseball fans seem to be more passionate or devoted… look at Chicago Cubs and Red Sox long-suffering fans….
Boxing is the ultimate sport.
Because that’s the one all other sports fall back on.