CrownCowboy
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So, here's what I take from that:
1) We're supposed to be impressed by an undergrad degree.
2) We're supposed to be impressed by an undergrad degree in Psych.
3) We're supposed to be impressed by an undergrad degree from a major university.
4) You presume it's likely that would be impressive because, surely, no one with a master's degree in the social sciences from a major university would post here... let alone, someone with a terminal degree.
And most relevantly:
5) That your description of diehard fans from whatever study it is you've cited... and I don't doubt you've stated the study basically with some level of accuracy... is not congruent with "those who just use sports as an outlet to feel powerful and smarter than everyone else, ostensibly because they don't get to do that in any other part of their lives."
To the contrary, my friend, why else would one invest him/herself quite so intensively?
As a psych expert like yourself surely knows as s/he walks into this discussion, the psychological drive to feel powerful and superior intellectually, when unmet in other parts of his/her life, is naturally especially intensive then in other places... often personal relationships... and often, again, in one's connection to his/her sports team(s).
In other words, the diehard fan, just rationally, profiles most typically as a person who places greatest priority on showing him/herself smarter than the owner, GM, coach, players when they're losing, and complimenting him/herself on all his/her mind-melding with the team's principals when they're winning.
Others of us?
We're just in it for the entertainment value. It's just sports. In real life, there are other better ways to reassure oneself that s/he's superior/intelligent/valuable.
Pardon the observation but it's more entertaining to win games and make the playoffs, keeping hope alive than it is to see someone lose his job.
Try to see it from our point of view.
That’s deep.
Kudos.