You brought it up as a way to ridicule me. I answered you honestly and showed how wrong you were to falsely accuse me of such. I wasn't referring to others. Simply correcting you on your false accusation.
Apologies if you thought I was ridiculing you.
Not hardly to ridicule you, only questioning your definition of a "true fan" and what makes one a "fan". Since I don't know you personally, questioning where you lived or where you went to school directly yourself never crossed my mind. I spoke from my personal experience.
I live in NC. I know a crapload of people who are die hard cowboys fans in NC, yet they never go to or have been in Texas. I also remember when I started seeing a lot of people wearing Eagles apparel in NC after they beat New England and I would ask them we're they're from (thinking perhaps Pennsylvania) only to know they are local due to their dialect. One could argue a native NC wearing NFL's team apparel is a bigger fan than myself because I would never spend my own money on the NFL. So... perhaps people who spend 4k for the nosebleed section of a Super Bowl (and God knows how much more to actually get there) are bigger fans than anyone else because they could spend the most money on the NFL? That said, in my defense, I have attended NFL games because I thought I was a "fan" LOL
I do however agree with you that sports is only entertainment (unless you played the sport and like to follow that sport because of that). Just interesting how one form of entertainment (vs other forms) can kind of ruin some peoples day / month / year and basically turn some people into buttholes.