What's the point of the fight?
So a bunch of guys say, "Ya know, this team of football players that doesn't know us but plays in our town a lot? They are so good that we need to fight other people who are also not connected in any way to the football teams that pay in their towns. Because football."
This makes no sense to me at all. If one person or two did it, I would chalk it up as mutual insanity. So how and why does this happen so often and with so many people?
I've heard that it gives some folks with little hope, a feeling of belonging. But even under those circumstances, I don't know if I'd base my kinship with non family members based on our mutual belief that coincidentally, the best football team in the world is from the same city we are living in, despite their win/loss record saying otherwise.
One might as well base their deep devotion to others that shop in the same grocery store because it carries by far the largest verity of grapes (Despite the fact that it does not), and we both need to physically attack anyone who disputes this non-fact.