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WrestleMania and the Mystery of Sports Nuts

The deranged psychology of sports fans has been a mystery for centuries. During football season, tens of millions of us sit through games where we see an average of 11 minutes of actual football action, and approximately 30 hours of commercials. Why do people invest so much money and time, so much energy and emotion, in watching other people play? Read More

Life is a story and so is sport

I'm so glad this site has published this article as it's a point I'm most interested in. Sports definitely sell of of stories. We develop our own stories to sports over the years and become very attached to them. Somehow, however, most people seem oblivious to this fact and this is where the WWE suffers. the whole "its fake" thing has been done to death. Problem is it's not "fake" it just is what it is: stories. It's amazing how much love and hate the WWE gets for being purely about stories. It's a subject I;m very interested in and have written about before ( WWWE stories.  )

so yeah; thanks for this article.

Life is a story and so is sport

I'm so glad this site has published this article as it's a point I'm most interested in. Sports definitely sell of of stories. We develop our own stories to sports over the years and become very attached to them. Somehow, however, most people seem oblivious to this fact and this is where the WWE suffers. the whole "its fake" thing has been done to death. Problem is it's not "fake" it just is what it is: stories. It's amazing how much love and hate the WWE gets for being purely about stories. It's a subject I;m very interested in and have written about before ( WWE stories.  )

so yeah; thanks for this article.

WWE stories love / hate

seems this didnt post the first time. . . ?

I'm so glad this site has published this article as it's a point I'm most interested in. Sports definitely sell of of stories. We develop our own stories to sports over the years and become very attached to them. Somehow, however, most people seem oblivious to this fact and this is where the WWE suffers. the whole "its fake" thing has been done to death. Problem is it's not "fake" it just is what it is: stories. It's amazing how much love and hate the WWE gets for being purely about stories. It's a subject I;m very interested in and have written about before ( WWWE stories.  )

so yeah; thanks for this article.

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Jonathan Gotschall, Ph.D., is an English professor at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania.

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