How do we decide on our allegiances to sports teams? Is it our personal history with the team? Are we influenced by our peers? Or are we simply in awe of a star player? We sat down with Errol Lord, assistant professor of philosophy, to investigate our partiality towards certain teams, as well as other fandom phenomena like the bandwagon effect.
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