Abstract

Many of us enjoy watching and participating in sports. Team sports, amateur and professional, let us associate with a group—a surrogate tribe. I live in the Boston area, which we like to refer to as <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">title town</i> , and we are fanatical about our Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics, and Patriots. These teams play games that take the place of battles between tribes. We relish our victories against the “evil” teams representing New York. These games excite and energize us. In some ways, they are emotional substitutes for real battles. Occasionally, passions boil over and result in real violence on the field and off.

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