Loyalty and Proximity
If I were to play a football game on an Xbox, Playstation, or some other system, I would pick the Kansas City Chiefs. Not because I am a fan (I think they wear red and white), but because when I was a child, one of my band directors had played for them briefly. At least that is the story I heard. It may not be true, I don't know. The point is, because I liked that band director, I became somewhat tangentially loyal to the Chiefs. The other reason I would pick the Chiefs is this: when I was in seminary, my roommate was a big football fan (or at least in comparison to me). He loved football and had a copy of Tecmo Bowl, a football game for the original Nintendo system. He wanted to play, so we played and I picked the Chiefs. He treated the game like a real football game. I treated it like a video game. I wasn't thinking about rational plays, stats, or player capabilities. So when I won the game by kicking a 75 yard field goal, my roommate was not happy. "Yo