Imagine you support a football team that is really a good team, near and dear, that just hasn’t managed to get over the hump. And then, all of a sudden, they’re in the Super Bowl. You’re thrilled beyond belief, you’re so close to the championship you can scream…but they’re playing the games at the rate of one play per day. No tickets, no TV, no radio, no internet, and all you know about what’s happening is what the players mention as they come back to the bench.
What would you do? I’ll tell you what you’d do: you’d be a nervous wreck for, like, two months.
But that’s the thing about sports: you derive an immense amount of joy just from being happy for the guys who are actually out there winning the championship.