These days, the attendant stresses of being a sports fan — winning, losing, team-building, player development — don’t seem quite so paramount.
A little petty, in fact.
Every so often as a fan, some real-life event occurs, usually an unexpected death, that cuts into the fun and games and forces everyone to — this is the inevitable term — “put things in perspective.”
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But after the proper amount of sober reflection, it doesn’t take long for things to return, more or less, to normal.