Word: fandom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Town of Triangle. A little known fact: the Finger Lakes were originally settled by representatives from Playskool. Friday the 13th saw a substantial loss for the Crimson at the hands of the Big Red.For us, it also meant a serious loss of faith in the quality of Cornell fandom. When it came to the student body’s support of their dominant team, it was quantity over quality.The best cheers and jeers the “Red Zone” could muster was “Put on a tie Amaker” and “You have...
That’s why in fandom, you have to go through something to really make a team stick. I think I’ll always like the Red Sox because I was rooting for them in 2003, when I knew I was coming to Harvard, when Aaron Boone took Tim Wakefield deep in the bottom of the 11th of Game 7, and broke Red Sox Nation’s collective heart—again (shout out to my boy Evan O’Brien, who was at that game...
...Laband says. Up to this point, most behavioral research has focused on the correlation between the likelihood of voting and displays of political expression - membership in a party, or "Vote Smith for Congress" signs on the porch. "These results show that different kinds of expressive behavior, voting and football fandom, are linked somehow, even if they don't have the common thread of politics," he says...
...haven’t really got it. We need to learn from the cheering squad from which we ganked our fan club’s namesake. Yes, those crazies down in Cameron Indoor (aka, Cameron Crazies, get it?) were the staple for loud, obnoxious, and also, yes, creative college fandom in the mid-80s and 90s. I’ll give two examples. As a die-hard UVA fan, I hate do this, but I’m Crimson now, and drastic times call for some measures that may also be drastic: North Carolina’s standout guard...
...This requisite patience in turn counsels against the fair-weather fandom that dominates the Harvard campus annually around October—that is, if the Red Sox have had a successful season. Well-intentioned and clueless Red Sox fans on campus perhaps can be forgiven for their feigned enthusiasm, for their understandable desire to imbibe the rich froth of Boston sports culture, for their all-too-human urge...