>>107791811The difference being that sports are based in actual concrete things.
>>107791875Combination of multiple things. People get emotionally invested in characters (inb4 DATS AUTISTIC, any good story should find a way to make you care about its characters), so a show that goes out of its way to show said characters being killed in gruesome and often agregious ways will obviously draw ire.
That's not getting into fandom dick swinging contests that usually just amount to a dorkier and more autistic version of "my dad could totally beat up your dad!" arguments, things which are typically reserved for literal children.