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Expat Sports Disorder: The unheralded digital affliction

With my beloved Eagles in the Super Bowl, I update a rumination on sports fanhood from this column's early days, begging indulgence of veteran subscribers

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Dan Perry
Feb 08, 2023
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The world is full of people who call on others to be more rational. I should know – I’m one of them. But if they’re sports fans, such people should put their own house in order first. Upon reflection few of us, it seems, are quite as rational as we think.

I was doing OK on this score until about age 9, when my fam…

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