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* ''Seriesa/NewGirl'': When Coach returns to living at the loft, Jess decides to bond with him over watching Detroit Pistons games. This creates tension with Nick, who is a fan of their arch rivals the Chicago Bulls.

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* ''Fanfic/RunAtTheCup'': Cassandra Kiramman's support for the Zaun Sumprats is a natural outgrowth of her daughter Caitlyn being the team's star player, but seeing a retired politician become a devoted hockey fan who listens to podcasts and knows the ins and outs of both the sport and the industry is quite amusing.

* ''Series/TedLasso'' has Baz, Jeremy and Paul, three regulars at [[OurLocal the Crown & Anchor]] who are [[ThoseTwoGuys rarely seen apart]] and are largely defined by being diehard fans of AFC Richmond, the fictional UsefulNotes/EnglishPremierLeague football club that the series mainly focuses on. They always come to the pub to watch the latest match, and their opinions on Ted's coaching of the team [[FairWeatherFriend vary depending on how well the team is doing]].

Since the dawn of the late 19th century, pro sports have taken their place in the entertainment industry. serving as a respite from the daily humdrum of life. As sports have evolved from a pastime to a full-on business, rooting for teams has become a full-on commercial enterprise with tickets, gear, etc, becoming part of the fandom experience.

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': The "Bill Swerski's Super Fans" skits are about the titular talk show, in which all of the hosts are die-hard fans of the Chicago Bears. The biggest joke of the sketch is how said hosts are completely unable to accept the fact that the Bears have had some serious losing streaks, [[IRejectYourReality going so far as say the Bears are still in the run for the Super Bowl after being eliminated from the playoffs or that Coach Mike Ditka had some noble reason to throw the game]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lynn Loud Jr. being a PassionateSportsGirl and all. Several episodes (such as ''On Thin Ice'') show that she is very superstitious and does numerous eccentric and odd rituals so that her favorite sports teams/players can win a game.

->'''Vlad''': '''Because the Packers are owned by the city of Green Bay and they won't sell them to me!''' [[labelnote:Note]] This is incorrect, as the Packers are actually owned by a stock issuing nonprofit with a very diverse ownership plus strict limits of share transfer. Technically Vlad could own a fraction of a percent of the Packers if he bought a stock certificate, although it would come with no governing power[[/labelnote]]

* ''Series/KenanAndKel'': The ''entire city of Chicago'' turns out to be this in "Foul Bull." Ron Harper, a shooting and point guard for the Chicago Bulls, appears AsHimself and ends up getting injured when he slips on some orange soda that Kel spilled. Soon, Kenan and Kel are receiving outright death threats (someone tosses a basketball through the Rockmores' window with the message "Kenan and Kel, get out of town" taped to it) and can't go anywhere without being accosted. Thankfully, the boys manage to reach Harper in his hotel room and apologize, and he's moved enough to make a speech praising them, thus calling off the mob.

Since the dawn of the late 19th century, pro sports have taken their place in the entertainment industry. serving as a respite from the daily humdrum of life. As sports have evolved from a pastime to a full on business, rooting for team has become a full on commercial enterprise with tickets, gear, etc, becoming part of the fandom experience.

This trope covers both real life and fictional teams, pro and college that the characters find themselves rooting for.

* ''ComicStrip/TankMcNamara'' is a former pro football player now doing televised sports commentary. His neighbor is Sweatsox, a man with an obseesion for sports. Sweatsox's bio states: "If it wears a number and breathes hard, Sweatsox will watch it."

* In ''Film/CelticPride'', Bostonians Mike O'Hara and Jimmy Flaherty are die-hard fans of the Boston Celtics, who are in the NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz. With both the Celtics and Jazz end up needing a game 7 to determine who wins the championship, Mike and Jimmy pose as Jazz fans and meet superstar Jazz player Lewis Scott at a party. Mike and Jimmy both drink with Lewis, hoping to get him too hungover to compete in the next game. But they end up accidentally kidnapping him. Deciding they're going to prison anyway, both Mike and Jimmy decide to hold onto Lewis until the game ends.

* ''Film/TheFan'' lives on this as the plot focuses on a struggling knife salesman named Gil Renard whose obsessive fandom of the San Francisco Giants, particularly star player Bobby Rayburn, forces him to go on a crime spree which involves killing Rayburn's teammate over his jersey number, kidnapping Rayburn's son, and even threatening to kill Rayburn himself.

* ''Series/AccordingToJim'' takes place in Chicago, Illinois. Jim himself is die-hard Chicago Bears fan. One episode finds him conflicted with his own newborn son, who grows attached to a plastic Green Bay Packers toy football. Jim ends up having a dream where his future adult son tells him that forcing his own interests may end up hurting his relationship with his son in the long run. Instead of trying to convince him to become a Bears fan, he should enjoy the common interest in American Football instead.

* ''Series/That70sShow'': Red Forman is a massive Green Bay Packers fan, a trait his son Eric doesn't inherit. In the episode "Street Fighting Man", Red takes Eric and his friends to the Packers-Bears game and attempts to get Eric involved by giving him money to buy a jersey. When Eric comes back with a Walter Payton Bears jersey, he almost disowns him, but comes to his defense when a Packers fan picks a fight with him.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': The "Bill Swerski's Super Fans" skits is about the titular talk show, in which all of the hosts are die-hard fans of the Chicago Bears. The biggest joke of the sketch is how said hosts are completely unable to accept the fact that the Bears have had some serious losing streaks, [[IRejectYourReality going so far as say the Bears are still in the run for the Super Bowl after being eliminated from the playoffs or that Coach Mike Ditka had some noble reason to throw the game]].

* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': One of the Altador Cup side games is "Make Some Noise", where you play as a screaming super-fan of whichever team you're playing for. The goal of the game is to mash buttons to scream louder than everyone else in the stadium to win points for your team overall. The character in question is even known as the "Techo Fanatic", and is renowned for being a fanatic about whatever team he's supporting. He's fanatical about the cup as a whole, and has turned his mansion into an Altador Cup museum.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': [[BigBad Vlad Masters]] is a massive Green Bay Packers fan, to the point where he will interrupt whatever evil scheming he is currently doing if a game is on. One of this biggest pet peeves is the fact that, in spite of all his wealth, he can't buy the team.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter and his friends are die hard New England Patriots football fans. They even go so far as to ask ''God'' personally to stop the Patriots from losing, and have had Rob Gronkowski as a next door neighbor. Lois is shown many times to have many a sexual fantasy about the Patriots players, particularly Tom Brady and Julian Edelman.

* ''WesternAnimation/HumanResources'': One of the human characters -- and Pete, Rochelle, and Dante's client -- is Doug. Doug is the the self-described biggest Phoenix Suns fan in Hartford, Connecticut, to the point that he gets his van custom wrapped against Pete's advice, and through sheer luck, gets a gig as Charles Barkley's driver.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The Simpsons and the rest of Springfield are diehard fans of the city's minor league team, the Springfield Isotopes AA baseball team. The Isotopes even had been the focus of a couple episodes, most notably one involving Homer going on a hunger strike to prevent them relocating to Albuquerque, and serving as marriage counselor for a star player.

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* ''WesternAnimation/HumanResources'': One of the human characters - and Pete, Rochelle, and Dante's client - is Doug. Doug is the the self-described biggest Phoenix Suns fan in Hartford, Connecticut, to the point that he gets his van custom wrapped against Pete's advice, and through sheer luck, gets a gig as Charles Barkley's driver.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lynn Loud Jr. being a PassionateSportsGirl and all. Several episodes (such as ''On Thin Ice'') show that she does numerous eccentric and odd superstitions so that her favorite sports teams/players can win a game.

While most fans are sane enough to put sports fandom in its own place, there are those that are more, shall we say, "Obsessed". The ones that spend inordinate amounts of money on gear and tickets, who have an encyclopedic knowledge of player stats, the ones who refer to their teams as "We" as in "We won" and "We stink"

* [[SenseiChan Ms. Kuroi]] in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' is a big fan of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiba_Lotte_Marines Chiba Lotte Marines]]. It's to a point that in one strip, she treats a game where Marines lost to ''not exist''.