The Chapecoense plane crash, that left over 70 people dead including ACF Chapecoense, a small Brazilian football club which had just reached the final for the Copa Americana in what most described as a Cinderella story, has sent ripples through every Football fan.

From the titans of Europe and Latin America to the blooming American scene, every club and fan has had to look this terrible event in the eyes. Yet, the one light that has shown bright amongst all this has been those reactions.

Perhaps the biggest of expressions has been Atlético Nacional's, the team Chapecoense was supposed to face in the final, request that the Copa be awarded to Chapecoense. In mass, the team and its fans have actually requested that they lose—an act that would seem impossible in comparison to the intense passion fans usually exhibit.

Another inspired moment came when just about every major club in Brazil, including the teams Chapecoense played and beat last year, offered to loan players to the club for free so that they could still compete next season. Loans between teams usually come with the exchange of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars.

At a smaller scale football fans across social media have done their part. Endless posts and pictures of support enveloping pages and groups. Images came out spanning from high school teams to the giants of England, of teams taking moments of silence before their games started to remember their recently fallen comrades of the game.

What I'm getting at with all this is that maybe sports fans, football fans, aren't just the brutish crowd those that don't share interest might assume them to be. There's more than the bitter losers and the destructive celebrators.

At the core of this community is a world full of people who care about one another, who can put down their jerseys and acknowledge one another as friends. There is little to smile at when a team that stood for so much is taken away so suddenly, but perhaps we can still have hope that this tragedy has reminded a world of fans that they are lucky to be alive, and that every now and then there's something more important than the result of a game.