No, Mike, I think ACamp is right.
With some it becomes so perceptually limiting, I would have to call it a significant retardation.
I don't know many USC fans, but the two I do, never went there, probably went to much better school, UCSD for example, but they are exceptional human beings, one a doctor. And then when we are drinking one night he (the doctor) tells me the secret to USC's success; women. Starlets, floozies, women of every shape and size. Then he proceeds into a story about how as far back as when John Wayne played on the Trojan line he would go out to parties at the Hollywood mansions. He apparently was a hit. That is just a different mentality than I grew up with.
I have met people from Texas to Maryland and below. The first thing they want to do is criticize the Buckeyes. I say I don't care. Then they want to rip on Ohio highschool football, and I say, "Why?" And they say because it is so bad, and I tell them it sounds like they have a personal problem. It gets so bad a drunk guy at an Iberostar Resort on the Rivera Maya went on and on; I looked at him and told him, he just had one problem, he had leaned too far forward on his stool. After the crash, and mind you this was a grown man who wanted people to take him seriously, I looked down on him and said, "Hold that thought."
I had another friend that when I described the poor education many urban districts provided, that only alowed kids to qualify at their neighborhood state schools, was akin to slavery, one person, anavid LSU fan said, "About time." He is a friend of a friend, so I asked my friend about him, the reply was, that's just the way he is. I nodded; haven't been back over since.
These are some of my experiences. When I look at some of the ND fan stories from the last year, as bad as they are, I always breath a little sigh of relief, too.