It is about championships. In the 90's the Braves were the winningest teams in baseball. However, with only one ring to show for it, nobody hated them.
People want parity in sports only because they want the David Vs Goliath story. The irony though that metaphor is only good for faith matters. But the only time another team stands a chance of beating Bama (Goliath) is with another Goliath.
Also, most folks tend to despise the Bama (Goliath) because the despise what it takes to do that all the time. Most folks are in the bleachers so they can be the critic of those in the arena. They are too afraid to have the possibility to defeat a Goliath because they know they didn't do squat to be prepared to fight him.... Sooooo, it is easier to be the critic in the bleachers. I love Teddy Roosevelt's Commentary:
āIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.ā
