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Sports team fans have always been a weird thing to me. Love the sport? Sure, but caring how a team does that you have no influence over is weird.
"WE WON!!"
You didn't win anything. You watched highly-trained and compensated professionals win. You got literally nothing out of it.
The emotional buy-in makes it more exhilarating. And it's really easy to do, the human mind loves to give things an identity and a story. And it satisfies the primal urge to belong to a community. Team sports basically hack your brain in some very satisfying ways.
It gets messy when people with poor emotional regulation rely on the sports feelings.
As I've grown older, I've given far less fucks about professional sports. The fact of the matter is those people playing on the field are the furthest from a representation of you as an individual as you can find. They are literally millionaires and multi-millionaires from random fucking places all across the country. They have no connection to your city, other than being drafted, traded, or maybe signing and choosing to play there. Additionally, a lot of people who make it in sports are big into faith, and don't shut the fuck up about it like those douches on the San Francisco Giants recently did on the team's pride night - offending a shitload of lifetime fans in the process. I guess when you play / coach sports, and everything goes your way in life and you make millions, it's easier to drink the religious kool aid.
Additionally the number of pro fascist pro athletes lately is too damn high, and it is annoying. Hell, my (former) favorite player on the Raiders - Maxx Crosby outed himself as a chud a couple of years ago after Butler, and it makes it hard to root for the guy. Having said that, I love sports and am competitive by nature, so I continue to watch, but my level of fandom has definitely fallen off a cliff.