The Tattoo Story

I tweeted this during halftime of Sixers-Nets Game 2. The Sixers had led comfortably the majority of the first half, only to see their lead evaporate as the second quarter came to a close. The tweet was meant to provide some levity after a stretch of frustrating basketball — but it also came from a genuine place.

I’m sure other sports fan bases identify themselves similarly. Sports fanaticism can cause regularly rational people to behave entirely irrationally, to the point of total lunacy. Calling oneself a “psychopath” in relation to one’s own sports fandom can be a prideful assessment. The difference between other fan bases and the Sixers fan base is that I wasn’t strictly classifying our…