Word: diehardism
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That's why even (or especially) diehard Sox fans viewing this year's pennant race totter in the volatile area between grim cynicism and disbelieving joy as the BoSox strengthen their hold on baseball's strongest division. Trusting a team that's hurt you is difficult. Boston fans should know not to excite themselves over silly little 13-game leads, like the one the Sox blew eight years...
Just one day after the Liberty Weekend harbor festival, the ferry Samuel I. Newhouse was carrying some 500 passengers -- including a number of diehard tourists -- on its 8:30 a.m. run from Manhattan to Staten Island. Midway across New York harbor, just past the refurbished Statue of Liberty, a homeless Cuban refugee named Juan Gonzalez, 43, unsheathed a 2-ft. sword he had been carrying. Shouting incoherently, he began slashing and stabbing anybody who stood in his way. Retired New York City Police Officer Edward del Pino, 55, seeing panicky passengers stampeding past him on the ferry's deck, rushed...
...many, seeing friends and drinking--not necessarily in that order--constitutes The Game. But for the two football squads involved and those diehard fans sober enough to focus on the field, The Game is serious business...
...small parking lot close to the Centrum, diehard Deadheads had congregated with their vans and cars packed with Grateful Dead memorabilia. Some fixed dinner on small grills. Elsewhere reunions took place...
Beyond the 81 hours of enjoyment that diehard fans were deprived, there was also the fumbling for information to fill air time...