Ask a thousand fans why they watch sports and what they get out of it, and you will hear one thousand different answers. One of the most magnificent (or, perhaps, one of the most terrible) thingsabout sports is that the diversity of opinion it provokes can reflect the diversity of how we feel about anything — be it politics, music, movies or marzipan. Every game and every team, at any level,can provoke a range of considered opinions, knee-jerk prejudices, or a palette of wild and even uncomfortable emotions.
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