We don't take the field, at risk to life and limb. Much as we'd sell a kidney to do.
HOWEVER--
We lose sleep over losses and how we think they could've been avoided.
We lose sleep over injuries, and who will be 'next man up'
We worry about 10am road games
We congregate around beer sellers and tell highly trained athletes what they're going wrong.
We, on gameday, gratefully ignore our friends/family if it means a win, knowing we'll gladly bear the brunt of the criticism afterwards.
We lie awake at night wondering, if we were anywhere near the inner circles, what we could do to help.
We wear team colours to the workplace up to the following Friday, whether we cruised to a win or got bent over the hotplate by the previous opponent.
And we - if you can count yourselves on the smallest group of the fanbase - get to go, in person, to CenturyLink and scream lungs raw - in the hope that just for one single, solitary play, it can screw up the plans of the opposition.
We can count among our number, those who lay down in front of buses as they were ready to move the entire franchise to LA.
It's WE and it will always be WE and to hell with anyone who has precious social inequities with it.
This is our team.