Why the squabbles among fans of the same team?

[*Nately120*]

Personally, I believe sports and sports teams provide an essential outlet for argument and emotion that most people can't or won't have in their daily lives. Professional sports gives people a chance to care about something that technically has no effect upon their lives and to "be a part" of something they have absolutely no influence over.

Besides, even if we are all optimistic we are going to find ways to disagree over said optimism. Person A can be optimistic that Dalton can have a resurgence under ZT while person B can be optimistic that we will stink enough this year to draft the QB of the future who will thrive under ZT's coaching. Optimist A will start getting pessimistic by pointing out that the QB we draft could be the next Paxton Lynch or David Klingler and that trusting Mike Brown to draft a QB is a risk...uh oh, now we're getting less optimistic. Optimist B points out that Dalton has only had a single good year and other mean things in order to make the point that we can and will draft a better QB.

And so on and so forth. Basically, if we all start getting optimistic you're going to see optimists argue over which optimistic view is right and which is wrong. That's just human nature.