Deserving Sports Fans

I read a blog on Yahoo! about Green Bay Packers fans and how they didn't deserve to lose to Brett Favre twice.  The post goes into really no detail about why they did or did not deserve to lose to Favre twice.  He does say, though, some things....

"Most of us will never see our hero, arguably the best player in the history of our franchise, come back in the colors of our arch-rival and then destroy us, cementing the fact that his new football team is now clearly better than his old one."

This might be true.  But what other things will most of us never see?  Let's see.  The Detroit Lions, from 2007-09 lost 19 games in a row.  Not many cities get this privilege.  The Pittsburgh Pirates currently hold the record for most consecutive losing seasons at 17.  This record is ongoing and I don't see an end in sight.  Most fans won't see this happen, either.  So, who really cares what most of us will ever see.  In sports, anything can happen.

"Karma failed us. After everything that's happened, all the breathless media reports, all the spin, all the lies, all the hurt feelings ... Brett Favre gets to come out on top, both times? This time, in your own front yard? That is not right. That is not just."

Karma does not care about Packers fans or Vikings fans or Yankees fans.  Justice and karma and 'things working out right' don't exist, especially not in sports.  There is no justice in sports.  There is just sports.  Karma doesn't help out a franchise.  Things just happen.

"I guess "deserve" is a concept that doesn't apply here, though. Things happened the way they did because Minnesota has a better football team. They have a better defense and a better running attack. In this case, that means they win. It sucks, but that's how it works."

This last quote negates the entire article.  If only the author would have come to this realization at the beginning of the article, he could have stopped writing.  He finally understands.  The Red Sox were never cursed.  They had inferior teams.  The Cubs are not cursed.  They might be a bit unlucky.  But overall, they have not had the best team.  In sports, justice, fairness, karma, 'getting what's yours' and whatever else do not exist.  The best team usually wins, no matter the colors on the uniform.