A new book examines fandom and offers some advice
Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-industrial Complex at Its Own Game
By Craig Calcaterra
Belt Publishing
232 pages
I got off to a bad start with Rethinking Fandom: How to Beat the Sports-Industrial Complex at Its Own Game.
Here’s the passage that did me in, which is on the second page of the “Introduction”: “There was talk about the possibility of superfan groups like the Seattle Seahawks’ famous ‘Twelfth...