I don’t blame anyone for believing the things they do about football.
Football is emotional. We invest much of ourselves rooting for our favorite teams — deeply hoping that at the end of each game, they will be victorious. And when they’re not (like the Kansas City Chiefs against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night), we become distraught.
As humans, it’s just our nature that when things don’t go our way (and sometimes even when they do), we search for patterns — something on which we can blame the tragedy. We’re really good at it.