There is no joy in SoCal baseball fandom, the mighty local teams have struck out.
Perhaps these Packer fans are on the cusp of a new age of fandom.
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Can fandom use a corporate structure to pick executive personnel like other major corporations?
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That leap is the essence of big-time sports fandom emotional attachment to strangers wearing familiar uniforms.
They cultivate an under-the-radar, cultish fandom rather than trying to be the brand with mass appeal.
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As for those outside the charmed circle of college fandom, good luck navigating by the stars of March Madness.
But that fandom isn't limited to the girls who would've gladly traded a limb for a date with Jones.
But some in fandom root harder against their villain than for their angel.
"Tron" fandom is something just about everyone involved in the series -- a prequel to "Legacy" -- has in common.
"I'd say that Indiana, along with maybe Kentucky, are the two craziest places in terms of statewide basketball fandom, " he said.
But, she continued, thanks to the Internet all those in Fandom were now free of this "Man" who represented big publishing.
Watching the faces of Packer fans after the game Sunday brought me back to the raw sensations that sports fandom can bring.
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The real battle royale, the one that really inspires fanatical fandom, is between Star Wars and Star Trek, the titans of science fiction.
Still, despite the fandom, rye sales are a drop in the bucket compared to those of bourbon, which is generally easier and cheaper to produce.
Like many fans who were exposed to the music of RUSH before 1980, (including McFadyen) he was ushered into the fandom by an older brother.
"True fandom is something like a cult that brainwashes you where you are unwilling to see the reality of the person you admire, " Lawrence said.
Back then, as now, he had made nearly all his income from the sale of ZMA. The illegal drugs were a hobby born of fandom.
And this morning on the train I reaffirmed my fandom as I finished Mr de Botton's latest work, "A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary".
The good news is, Star Trek and Star Wars fans have had this kind of sibling rivalry, where one fandom thinks theirs is better than the other.
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"One of the key things of fandom is this yearning, this sense of loss, revelling in failure, and the World Cup appeals to those instincts, " Wilson said.
Nonetheless, it might be seen as incongruous that Austen's fandom is so extensive in the US, a nation founded on the rejection of aristocracy and old world manners and traditions.
Studies have connected fandom with additional effects, such as higher self-esteem (in basketball fans following a win) and fewer bouts of depression (in fans who strongly identify with their teams).
My entry-level advertising job was infinitesimal compared to the fandom and expectations of a whole continent, and yet she chose to stay where she was needed and care for her own.
Once they snuffed that flame, though, I folded my fandom like a pup tent, and hiked away, like I always do, forgetting even the most marquee events until next time around.
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So I speak from experience when I say that, for most emotionally normal adults, sustained fandom requires the perpetual renewal of the hope that next year, your guys just might win it all.
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For Milly Williamson, author of The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the changing cultural depictions of vampires reveals much about human society itself.
Perhaps fandom shareholders would define the mission differently.
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YouTube search results are even instantly available on every programme information page as bonus features, allowing viewers to easily become immersed in bloopers, fandom content and more, all directly related to the show they're interested in.
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From the huddled masses lining up outside theaters months before a movie opening, to the convention centers filled with adults in polyester jump suits, nothing inspires the fervent fandom of these, the galaxy's greatest space epics.
Others see this is as the beginning of the end for the relatively easy ride pony fandom has had from the license holder, and look fearfully at the vast corpus of fan works which may be endangered.
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