I was going to post that as well. I haven’t felt this bad since I was shot to pieces in Detroit and was rebuilt as a robot.
This is one of those things that irritated me when I was growing up. But people used it so frequently that I started doing it to.
On that note, do fans of individual athletes do the same thing? For example, do Tiger Woods fans every say: “We haven’t won a major since 2009. Let’s win the Master’s this year. When we’re on our A game, no one can stop us!”
No, since that’s a completely different animal. A person would only be a fan of an individual as long as that individual has a career, but they can be a fan of a team for life.
There are no current football players who were playing 20 years ago. No current players will be playing 20 years from now. But the team will still be the team, and their fans will still be their fans.
The danger is in actually thinking that you, as a fan, has any real influence over what happens on the pitch. A number of times I’ve found myself jumping up and down in the stands during a game or in front of the TV, imagining that I can somehow *will *my team to score.
Bothers me more at the pro level when fans think the performance of people hired to move to their city and play somehow reflects on the worth of the city.