Hooligans

It used to be that soccer brought out the worst in people who loved their sports teams. It's not the only sport, however, that brings this out.

The recent victory in basketball of the LA Lakers saw wild celebrations like the one in the video.

While I simply don't understand the celebratory nature of the festivities depicted I do understand that people could get hurt and in serious trouble for doing what they did. Shooting off machine guns into the air is another kind of celebration in another part of the world I don't understand. What goes up, must also come down - and countless people have been 'shot' (what goes up must also come down) by the same bullets used to express joy at a victory or an enemy's downfall.

Why do people do this? What does it tell us about ourselves?