Welcome to Five Thoughts for Friday, Here are some thoughts I had:
On Fandom:
One of the sad things about sports fandom is that, eventually, over time, the sheen can come off the whole enterprise. Follow a team long enough, and you’ll get to see the seedy underbelly at one point or another. Among fans of the Ottawa Senators, you might be hard-pressed to find too many that aren’t at least a little bit jaded after the events of the last few years. We’re not exactly bright-eyed and bushy-tailed these days.
One of the great things about sports fandom is that it can bind strangers together into a community.