Have you noticed people's romantic obsession with the "underdog"...I find it rather interesting...I guess deep down we all have an inadequacy that allows us to identify with David and NOT Goliath...we look forward to seeing the underdog win because it somehow gives us a fighting chance with whatever it is that we struggle with day to day...

The underdog doesn't always win though...do we still relate with the loser?...or do we dissociate ourselves and try to justify their failure?...if we gain a bit of adequacy for ourselves vicariously through the underdog's achievements...do we also compound our INadequacy through their losses?...

More often than not the underdog loses...so it stands to reason that we're spiraling downward if we constantly side with the underdog...that is of course assuming that we gain and lose equally with every win or loss the underdog experiences...

Personally I think we gain much more for their successes than for their losses...so in the end this identification with the underdog is a net positive gain...

Do you identify with the underdog or with the favourite?