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| Articles about Sports Fans |
| The Psychology of Sports Fans, Vol. I | | 2008-08-15 22:42:07 | | (This is something I've been mulling on for a while, and I was curious to hear what MHR has to say).
I, like everyone here, count myself under the "rabid, tending to dysfunctional due to extreme emotional attachment' brand of sports fans. I watch spring training and preseason games, whether on TV or on Gamecast. (My plans for Saturday night tomorrow consist of: Get pizza. Watch Broncos game. Heckle the Cowboys even though they can't hear me through the TV screen. Make unimaginative cracks about Jessica Simpson. Yell at Jay to throw the ball to the open guy in blue (or orange, as the case may be). You get the idea). I read every stats sheet in existence. I check an average of five or six different sites a day, five or six times, for news on my teams. My evening is planned around how I can check on the games in progress -- or avoid them, if they are currently too painful to be endured. (This April, I went to a big dance party at college. During breaks on the sidelines, I was constantly t... | | By: Mile High Report | | |
| | | Gift books for sports fans | | 2007-12-22 14:10:00 | | John Ed Bradley lived the dream of every schoolboy football player growing up in Louisiana: He got to run out of the tunnel and take the field at Tiger Stadium as more than 80,000 insanely partisan Louisiana State University fans screamed themselves silly. The games started, the din grew louder, and Bradley was overtaken by the sense that nothing else that happened in his life would matter as much as what was about to transpire over the next few hours. College football, especially at a school like LSU, where the game is almost a religion, can steal a man's soul.
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| | Today was a banner day for New England sports fans... | | 2007-08-14 05:00:00 | | Today was a banner day for New England sports fans. Most importantly, the Red Sox basically increased their lead over the Yankees, even though it won't show in the standings. So Steve Phillips and the Mike and Mike crew have jumped the gun by scheduling their discussion of whether or not it's time to press the panic button in Red Sox Nation for tomorrow morning. Tim Wakefield went eight innings and Paps closed it out in the 9th. Meanwhile the Yankees overcame a Rivera blown save to win in the home half of the 9th. For all intents and purposes, the lead might as well be back up to ten, maybe twelve games.While it may be an impressive feat to hold any given 9 men who are paid to hit a baseball without a hit for 6 solid innings, let's not forget that the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are not exactly the 1927 Yankees. It's true that getting BJ Upton to end the game when you're up by three and there isn't a soul on base is the basic equivalent of fanning Ruth and Gehrig with the bases loaded. ... | | By: Sedition In Red Sox Nation | | |
| | Life and Death on Route 95, or East Coast Sports Fans | | 2007-01-10 17:32:28 | | Last night I was channel surfing on the car radio, because I forgot to bring my cool Sirius receiver with me. I happened upon 92.3 FM, a New York station called WFNY. They refer to themselves as “Free FM.” There was a show on that the hosts kept referring to as “Ronninfess,” though I have since discovered the show is hosted by Ron Bennington and Fez Whatley. I spent about 20 minutes listening to them whine about Tiki Barber’s decision to retire from football. They accused him of deserting the city of New York, deserting his teammates when they were so close to a championship caliber team (that was a bit of a stretch on Ron and Fez’s part), and they accused Tiki of not being a man and being able to take his physical punishment in return for the big paycheck he received from playing football. They also mentioned that Sterling Sharpe had hung around the game too long, which is false, since he was forced to retire after either 6 or 7 years be... | | By: The Frog Bog | | |
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