Monkey see, monkey do. the teams fight out on the fields or in the arenas, so the spectators are just playing out what they see.
Look at Hockey, there is always a fight going on, see it on the Basket Ball courts, in Base Ball, and Socker.
Look at the example the parents show the kids at the little League games, fighting in the Bleachers, or going down and jumping on a Coach because they think their kid did no wrong, or was a wrong call.
What message does that transmit to the kids?
To me these sports heros are a bunch of over paid premadonas. people worship the ground they walk on, I don`t get it.
I never did care much for sports in school as a kid, and was forced into it during PE. and that was 50 plus yrs ago.
Back then, I don`t remember all this fighting going on. maybe this is just the dumbing down of our society slowly crumbling.
I will watch Foot Ball if it is on, but as to who wins? what difference does it make.
Charlie