I can speak here from personal experience. If you look me up on Guenter Lewy, Armenian genocide and you look at some of the blogs, you will find a lot of vituperation: you are called a genocide denier on a par with holocaust deniers."
VOA: standard.2010.03.18
The problem is that before you can speakfromexperience you may have to max out your credit card.
So I speakfromexperience when I say that, for most emotionally normal adults, sustained fandom requires the perpetual renewal of the hope that next year, your guys just might win it all.