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I will put it this way.
If all of us had an opportunity of personally making the team better on the field, on the sidelines, in the luxury box, we would move heaven and earth in doing just that. Heck. I would gladly put on 100 pounds and play left tackle if I had the talent, height and age to pull it off.
But none of us can. None of us ever have. None of us will ever do. Sure, we can boast and puff out our chests until our lungs break ribs but fans do not play. We do not coach. We do not oversee teams.
Fans are rewarded when their favorite team enjoys success and victimized by their favorite team's failures. We are all (no exception) at the mercy of how our favorite teams perform--good bad or meh--UNLESS we disavow allegiance to our favorite team.
Yes. I am serious. Yes. The ugly truth is @charron is right about what devoted fans both face and endure. Long-time members know my position on this topic. I used to rant a lot about half-fans, etc. It is black-and-white for me. Either a fan is all in, warts and all. Or they are not. Ride or die. If failure and misery and mediocrity and any other fathomably depressing term fits, everybody, literally, everyone, every single individual, man, woman and child, has a choice they can make for themselves.
Or not. Same goes for every fanbase of every sport existing or yet to come.
Go Cowboys!
No, I don't agree. This take seems to be all too one sided. I mean, there is an investment that goes on on both sides of this discussion. This take that I read, would only seem to represent one side of that equation.
I think there has to be more then that.
JMO