BakoSaint

Roll your eyes all you want Loomis lover. The fact is that a million people had casual conversations today where they asked or were asked 'Who's your team?' and the 99.99% who are not insufferable pains in the butt did not reply "what do you mean, I don't own a team, it isn't my team, Gayle Benson or whoever it is owns them, I am just an insignificant fan." You need to get over it and recognize the concrete reality that its a common device in contemporary language that sports fans feel a sense of ownership of the team they follow and use possessive language. You can find a million examples of fans using such language if you google NFL "Who's your team?".

For example, here is the NFL suggesting fans refer to it as their team. And its their team, they can talk about who their team signed and who their team paid and whether their team is making the right decisions and will win.