Who gets priority, the regular or the fan?

Tournament season can be a pain for anybody who isn’t a major fan of sports. For weeks at a time, you have to put up with a bunch of rowdy, entitled, and quite possibly not sober people taking over public spaces and TV screens because of their dedication to watching a ball being moved around. For those who do not want to get involved, the best option is to lie low until the competition is over.

At the same time, sports fans are as completely within their rights to enjoy their hobby as much as anybody else. Whether you care about it or not, it can’t be denied that sports are great at both entertaining people and bringing them together. There is no shame in wanting to be a part of that, and it is only fair to critique the negative side of it, but looking down on it as a pastime is not the way to go.

Any kind of sporting competition is something that is going to involve strong emotions, and most non-fans would prefer that they were not directed at them. Nonetheless, that is occasionally how things turn out.