Mar 3, 2018

Because we support teams more than we support individuals, and naturally with support of one team there will be more hatred for others

Easier to hate a team as there’s so many more aspects to be critical of i.e 22 players in a squad plus the manager, fans, the board etc

Also, individuals that everyone praises so highly such as the ones you’ve mentioned, like Bolt and Phelps, are usually pretty untouchable in their field. Easier to judge Bolt as the greatest ever sprinter with all his WR’s compared to judging a football team as the greatest—harder to quantify

Also easier to attribute talent/skill to one’s success individually as they aren’t reliant on anyone else. I guess in team sports individual brilliance isn’t as well recognised and you see the team as a well-oiled machine rather than the individual constituents which are brilliant in themselves

Those are just a few ideas but yeah it’s kinda hard to articulate as you’ve both already said