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Originally Posted by CBeisbol
All the Hatfield's must die because old Zeke kicked dirt on my shoe
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I try to avoid irrational reactions in real life, but the occasional snit in sports is fun! I don't take grudge holding to the extremes that my dad did. He hated Dean Smith for decades because he took more N Carolina players than IU player to the 1976 Olympics.
I will happily admit that if there is a bad call against my team early in the game, it justifies every call in my teams favor for the rest of the game! "Yeah, that may have been a foul, but remember that travelling call they screwed up 90 minutes ago? Its only justice!"
I also know that the refs always hate my team. If I drive 6 hours in any direction, stop at the first Little League game I find and start rooting for the blue team, the umpires IMMEDIATELY start screwing over my team!
There is a reason that, when my kids were growing up, I would tell them that "just because I am yelling, doesn't mean I am right" when they would watch sports with me.