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...time, or better said, the three longest games since 1996, or even better said, the three longest games since kids still played with pogs. If I was a lifetime devotee of the sport, that would be one thing, and this unlikely coincidence could be explained away as hard-core fandom. But, in fact, I hadn’t been to a women’s hockey game until I arrived at Harvard two years ago and to this point have only attended roughly 50 contests...
...However, the most frustrating thing for me is not Boston’s native fandom. As we all learned in Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” the place of one’s birth is completely beyond one’s control. No, the most frustrating thing is the legions of Harvard students who, seemingly on cue, sprout Tom Brady jerseys and Red Sox hats and start yelling “Yankees Suck.” As one case in point, if one were to judge by student attendance at the wild rally after...
...back of the hall taking in new party applications. Party membership in the region had almost trebled since the beginning of the year, he said, "and the new members are 15 years younger on average than the old ones." That isn't politics; that's evidence of fandom. "What's interesting about Ségolène to many of us is that she's a modern woman who has kept a lot of traditional attributes," says Eliane Obis, a teacher and deputy mayor in the Toulouse suburb of Montrabe. "She's not a woman who seems...
...view of Bara has grown ever more romantic. During the era of the Franco dictatorship, Bara was the lone place where the Catalans could shout in their own language and denounce the authoritarian regime. No government would dare challenge 100,000 men in the throes of fandom. Franco understood that the Catalan people needed a place to vent their frustration, and Bara provided just that...
...week, I had to make my choice. For a week leading up to the game, I dressed my 14-month-old baby in her Bara tracksuit, earning her approving cheers from my Latino neighbors in Washington as she waddled down the street. (O.K., some Americans do inherit their fandom.) I nodded, proudly and smugly. But there was no way for me to fully enjoy this game, to root against the Arsenal players I love. Even though Bara won, 2-1, I fear that a part of me lost...