After going to the Monumental, Universitario de Deportes’ soccer stadium, I had a great realization. Even though I am very hard in our contemporary culture and a fan of the ancient one, I understood that we are not so different after all. We definitely manifest our feelings and beliefs in very modest ways, we may have lost the sensitivity of before; but the natural instincts of a human remain the same.
A football game can be of course for the fans -I am one of them- a great show of skill and harmony. But the big football games serve mainly as Roman circuses, as a pretext to vent into the irrational, as a regression of the individual to its status as part of a tribe, as a gregarious piece in which, protected by the anonymity of the warm tribune, the viewer unleashes his aggressive instincts of rejection to others, of power, and commits a symbolic annihilation (although sometimes real) to the adversary.
The famous " hooligans " of certain clubs and their damages, such as murder and vandalism, show that in many cases it is not the practice of a sport which magnetizes so many fans - mostly male-, but the ritual that triggers the instincts and irrational impulses that allow the individual to relinquish their condition of civil and behave, throughout a game, as an animal. All in all, humans have some unchangeable behaviors that are inherited by blood.