I think it's a form of escape. You have a bar full of hard working blue collars guys with nagging wives, pain in the ass kids, and bills. It's one day they have to escape that shit and focus on their team.When the home team succeeds they feel like they are part of that success, after all every home team needs it's fans.
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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