Jerry Seinfeld once punctured the entire premise of team fandom with the observation that at the end of the day, it’s an empty exercise in rooting for laundry. Particularly in this modern league, Seinfeld has a point. Rosters are constantly in flux, staffed by modern-day athlete/mercenaries who hail from any and everywhere on Earth, most on one-to-two-year deals or recently acquired in a trade. Coaches are replaced. Front office regimes and their philosophies change. Owners sell teams. Teams move homes. The fabric of entire American cities can flip in a few years.
But how do we account for instances in which overriding essences remain as fixed descriptors for
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