Everyone roots for their hometown team, but the players are never actually from your hometown. The owners usually aren’t either, they’re just rich people who bought the team as an investment. I think the coaches are imported from like Indiana or wherever.
Thanks to free agency, players are bought and sold like portfolio assets. I mean, they’re amazing athletes. And I fucking love it when players cheese fans off with political shit. But as far as team loyalty goes, it’s weird because you as a fan are basically rooting for a corporation: “Yo, Salesforce is my fucking squad. Talk shit about them, I might have to throw these hands.”
Issue: 11-4 (orig. pub. date: )
