Football fans experience anticipation, surprise, pleasure, understanding, and poise, the defining elements of play.

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One of the most powerful drivers of human experience is our need to belong. That can be a healthy impulse that motivates us to join sports teams, chess clubs or fandoms – or a drive that leaves us ...