Yesterday, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sweden's biggest football star, announced that he bought 25% of the shares of Hammarby IF, a football club located in Stockholm.
People in Malmö, his home town, went absolutely crazy. Screamed that he betrayed them, that he's Judas and that any goodwill he had in the past is now gone, that he can never be seen as a role model any longer. The statue of him in Malmö has been vandalized, and this night people even visited his home in Stockholm and vandalized his door.
Why the fuck do people take sports so seriously? Sports is just entertainment, interest if you will, for the absolute majority. Why do people take something just meant for fun so serious? It's literally 22 guys running around, kicking a ball. Nothing more.
I love hockey, I watch every game that my team Frölunda Indians play, but I would never even get slightly sad if our captain Joel Lundqvist decided to go to our main rivals, Färjestad or HV71. Instead, I'd just shrug and move on with my day even though I really like him.
Can someone explain this?