First Person Sports References

Is it just me or when referring to the team you pull for by using the team in the first person sound wrong?  You know, when you say things like "we", "us", or "our" when you are talking about your favorite team.  It drives me crazy when I am listening to sports radio and a redneck calls in and starts saying things like, "we played well tonight" or "our defense played really sloppy" or "I expect us to beat the Lakers" when he is talking about the Boston Celtics.  Seriously, this guy has obviously never been north of the Mason-Dixon Line (let alone outside of a 10 mile radius from his double-wide), so what makes him think he can refer to a team in Boston in the first person?  Now I understand that there are a couple of instances where it is perfectly allowable to be able to use the first person when talking about your team, so here are the exemptions:

• You play or have played for said team.
• You work for said team.
• You went to said university (but even then, you should keep it to a minimum b/c the closest you ever got to the field was when you got drunk and ran onto it after a game).
• You are a Dallas Cowboys fan (it's easier to just let them say it and not argue with them).

So that means that you are not allowed to use first person if you have never even been to the city or university of the team.  And under no circumstances can you use first person for a college team if you have not at least attended that school (and having a 2nd Grade education does not give you any sort of mentally challenged exemption status).  I'm looking at you, every redneck fan in the state of South Carolina.

"When I googled 'redneck sports fan', the SEC logo came up in the results, that made me laugh."