fightinfunbags
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One aspect of sports is community. Playoffs around here in all 4 sports are awesome. Even casual fans are following daily and living and dying with every second of action. If the Cowboys win a Super Bowl are you able to even go to the parade and celebrate a championship with your community? I still remember the Phillies parade in 08 and the Eagles parade in Feb of 18. Some of my favorite sports memories. You’ll never have any of that. You’ll march into work as the lone Cowboy fan in the office and no one else is going to give a fuck.The real psychological profile gets clearer. You clearly felt your whole life that you were forced to be an Eagles fan like a lemming walking off a cliff. You didn't know any better or that you had a choice so you did it. Everyone around you did it because they had to. You were jealous of the Cowboys and their storied history and watching them be better than your team as a kid year after year after year after year. It became a part of your life and in many ways your whole life. Grown men sat around dwelling on their hatred of the Cowboys and their obsessions became your obsession. You grew to hate the Cowboys and their fans more and more and your obsession with them grew stronger each year and more importantly you began to resent your own failure of a team and your shit City more and more. You hated feeling like a loser every year and you started to realize that everyone around you was a bunch of losers too and in real life, not just because of Football. You bought expensive sneakers to try and hide this and to feel like a winner, if for but a fleeing minute, but it felt so hollow and never changed anything. You still were who you were and in a City you hated. You pretended you liked it, loved it even, but deep down inside you told yourself you would get out someday and never look back. You promised yourself that you'd never subject your kids to this horrible, empty, depressed life.
This is why when message boards became popular you took the first chance you could get to entrench yourself in the Cowboy board on ESPN; to see what it felt like and to relive the youth you wish you had chosen. This is why you took the first chance you could and fled Philly and indeed never looked back. You chose the place the most opposite of Philly that you could find - is that not not a sign of what you were running away from. But then you found even in Phoenix Cowboys fans were everywhere. You couldn't escape them. They truly were America's team and it was just too much to take. It's deep rooted in every part of you, not just Football but it signaled how bad your life was and how unhappy you were. You told your shrink, but it still didn't help. You inherited money but it too wasn't enough. To this day the obsession still drives you every day. Why doesn't my team get the notoriety? We won a SB but it still hasn't changed anything!!! It became clearer that you are still and always will be second fiddle. Why are they America's team!!! We should be America's team!!! Why don't little kids from all over the Country want to wear an Eagle on the side of their helmet, you thought, and it angers you more each year as the mistakes of your life eat away at you. Your hatred is so profound that you are actually happier when the Cowboys lose than when your own team wins. You are still this angry, insecure kid from Philly and it's all because of the Cowboys. America's Team.