Why We Are All Hypocrities in Some Way Or Another

All sports fans love their team(s). This is for the true sports fans, not the ones who watch it when its on. This is for the guys and girls who read articles every day updating every minute detail about their team during the offseason. The ones who will sacrifice anything that they can in any way possible to make sure we don't miss one second of our team's games.

All others...this does not apply.

The main problem with us sports fans is our love for our teams. While some consider this a great thing, it often leads to a less than logical thought process when a topic is disagreed upon—let's expand on this.

Let's say me and an opposing fan are arguing over which player from our respective teams is better. We will use stats yes, but we use the stats that only help.

Let's use an example of a Texas and Oklahoma fan arguing over who the better coach is: Bob Stoops or Mack Brown.

The Oklahoma fans will immediately point out Stoops has owned Brown in the head to head matchup, claiming it proves he is the better coach.

Claiming a clear cut means of superiority is a head to head...but wait, what happens when the Texas fan reminds the OU fan of 08? The OU fan then has to back track and change his opinion and use something else.

Now let's use NFL experience as an example.

I constantly see this switch of opinion in college football fan on blogs and comments across the web. Let's say a Tennessee fan is arguing with a Florida fan on who was better: Danny Wuerrful or Peyton Manning as a college player.

Gator fans will point to the Heisman trophy Wuerrful received and his '96 title win. Manning fans in defense, will use the fact that Wuerrful was a bust in the pros, while Manning could be a top-five quarterback in NFL history by the time he is done. 

Then, the Tennessee fan is arguing with a Michigan fan.

The argument is to determine who is a better college player: Heath Shuler or Tom Brady.

Tennessee fans will bring up how amazing Shuler was for the Vols program, while Michigan fans will bring up three little rings Brady has on his fingers.

Now that same Vol fan who claimed Manning's superiority as a college player was because he was a NFL success will go completely against what he stated earlier and claim Brady's pro success has nothing to do with how good he was in college...hrm?

Now, let's look at Miami vs FSU fans.

It's time to argue who is better here now. The FSU fan claims the superiority to Miami because they own the head to head overall record. The Miami fan will claim five national titles is far superior to two.

Now, that same Miami fan argues with an Oklahoma fan, and when the OU fan claims superiority because they have more titles then Miami, the Miami fan will get defensive and use the (3-2) head to head record that they own over Oklahoma.

The point is we all do it; somehow, someway.

We—as sports fans—love our teams, and anything negative mentioned by another fan of a different team makes us fight back with anything we can.

Until we can actually prove what stats are more relevant than others and actually agree to them, will anyone ever actually win one of these arguments?