Insult? Interesting self-conclusion.
There is not any strong similarity between wanting to win and wanting to lose.
Name any sport. Any sport. In any sport, there are two or more competitors vying to beat the other(s). Spectators, having a preference, hope their favorite team or athlete will defeat their competitor. Their hope is commonly expressed as rooting for victory. Hope changes into satisfaction if their team wins. In contrast, hope converts into disappointment if their team loses.
Rooting against a preferred team is an atypical concept within sports. The closest example of this personal expression is booing a bad play or perceived bad performance by either a preferred team or player. However, booing is not exactly the same as rooting to lose either.
Nonsensical is accurate. Definition:
nonsensical adjective
1 conceived or made without regard for reason or reality
Argument: When a team is judged incapable of achieving postseason success, a fan should hope for their team to incur losses during the season, in order for its future drafting selection to improve, and increase its opportunities of securing greater roster talent that shall (not maybe but will) make the team better than it was previously.
Counter-argument: Hoping for losses neither dictates nor mandates any actions that will be undertaken by the team's front office (e.g. Jerry Jones) during the draft. Possible actions taken by the team's front office include: a) drafting actual blue-chip talent; b) drafting talent that will not succeed consistently within the offense or defense; c) drafting talent that will underperform.
Rooting to lose for the sole sake of higher drafting selection is inherently short-sighted for two reasons. First, the predilection dismisses the true decision-makers in the drafting process (which is very strange for any Cowboys fan having Jerry Jones as a general manager). Secondly, the inclination settles upon assumed talent that will actually be drafted and minimizes or writes off the possibility of the front office 'going against the grain' by selecting non-assumed talent, unexpected trades, etc.
"Conceived or made without regard for reason or reality"
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