I would think anyone with any sense at all would know better than to think any team, organization, nation, or whatever else, can stay at the top forever. Everything has a season, and every season eventually ends. That's how I see it anyway. It's hard to get to the top and harder to stay there long. People have long had a tendency to want to see giants fall.
I also don't get the whole thing about team fan base seniority vs being called a bandwagon fan. 10 years ago you couldn't pay me to watch a football game. I thought it was one of the stupidest sports ever and a total waste of time. Archery was my sport, and I couldn't have cared less about other sports except fishing. So, with that said you would automatically assume that because I like Bama now, that I chose them because of their current record of winning. Well you'd be dead wrong. The truth about it is, people at work always gave me a hard time because I didn't watch football. Two of my coworkers in particular are what set me on this path. One was the most annoying know it all I have ever met and I honestly hated being around him. Everybody rejoiced when he found another job and quit. He is an Auburn super fan. He kept on and on about football stuff until I finally asked him what the team was that he hated most. Of course he said Bama and he couldn't stand them. The other was a diehard Tennessee fan, but he is also the laziest whiner I have ever worked with. That same night, I asked him the same thing...what team do you hate most. Guess who it was. On Friday's at work during football season, we can wear sports team hats/shirts. As soon as they told me that both of them hated Bama, I was online finding a Bama hat and shirt. I wore it to work that next Friday just to annoy those guys. That's what started it all for me. I didn't know why they didn't like Bama. I didn't know anything about their win/loss history or stats. All I knew was...two of the people I didn't like very much hated Bama and it gave me great joy to get under their skin. Ahhh the power of a crimson and white with a script letter A. It was around that same time that the Tennessee guy was trash talking about how they were gonna beat Bama that weekend, etc. I watched my first game while on vacation that 3rd weekend of October just to see if I was going to have to hear all the crap when I got back to work. Nope. But that's when I started watching football and I've not missed a game since. Even started going to them. I enjoy watching the games now and keep up with everything. Not just Bama. I've stuck with Bama because that's who I technically started with...and the wife says I look hot wearing crimson and white so that's always a bonus
It still amazes me how a little script A can cause such reactions from other people. Oh...one more thing. I've always liked wearing fedora hats...and guess what team is synonymous with a certain houndstooth fedora wearing coach from the past