I have the same thing with my sports teams, I like to see them win a fair amount. My dad and me, we have the Boston connection and so back the Patriots a bit, but now that the team is doing so badly we don’t follow the games so closely.
The thing is, I like to see sports played well. With round-ball football it’s the same thing, I follow the top teams and watch the Champions League from time to time because of the skill, it’s The Beautiful Game, as they say in Brazil.
In American Football it’s the incredible catches the receivers pull off, for me that’s the highlight, the skill players doing their thing. I don’t care so much for the struggle of the offensive and defensive lines.