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[QUOTE="Eric15, post: 5529741, member: 676"]
RF unfortunately I think what you're describing is extremely common in sports fandom. Penn State is probably the most heinous possible example. Lots of fans all over the country and world make exceptions for their personal value system when it's their own team. This honestly feels like it could be a PhD dissertation topic.. "how tribal association with one's favorite team influences their value system.'

A significant portion of Ravens fans act shocked and appalled and make pathetic excuses if you bring up how Ray Lewis was almost certainly involved in a double murder. Same thing with Kobe's sexual assault situation, or Jim Brown's disturbing history of domestic violence. I've seen videos of OJ Simpson visiting Bills home games, and idiot fans being excited to see him and asking for a picture. All those same people would never in a million years support murder or rape, but there's just something about sports allegiance that makes a segment of the population completely insane.

Maybe this is self-selection bias because I try to associate with non-horrible people, but I know a lot of PSU fans (there are tons in my neighborhood) and the majority of them think Paterno is a scumbag and were happy his statue was taken down.
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