Some people use sports teams as a symbol to express their feelings. Examples would be how once the Barcelona supporters were very aggressive against Real Madrid supporters where the latent cause was that Catalonians weren't taught/allowed to speak that language in Catalonian region of Spain.
Then there was a movie about a cricket match in india, set in 19th century where some indian villagers played the game against their British rulers.
So the emotions associated with these games are probably more than just sports. It's an expression of many other things just like how artists express all their turmoil through healthy means (art) but sometimes it does not remain healthy and the means of expression shifts.
I suppose the real question is how can we escape this sad sad condition isn't it? And I wish we were not so touchy-feely-crazy Kind of people but we are. 😂
In a world where we fight over so many small things, there definitely is an end of the spectrum where we kill over small things lol and that's terrifying and meaningless even but as isolated events, perhaps fascinating too
