The Football Fan's Manifesto (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
Just Pick One and Only One Picking a team is the most important decision of your life, so don’t screw it up by picking the Lions and know what you’re getting into if you pick the Cowboys (being loathed). Time is of the essence, so don’t be like Brett Favre and drag out your decision for an eternity. The absolute deadline to pick a team is your eighth birthday. Before that, you are in sports infancy and can be as willy-nilly and bandwagon-prone with your fandom as your wee widdle heart desires. Up until the third grade, kids don’t understand even the basic principles and pathologies of rooting for a team. Because kids are stupid. At that critical eighth year, something activates in the brain that solidifies sports allegiance. Ask any neurologist, they’ll back me up on this. It’s science. Political leanings can be fluid. You can have an epiphany later in life that can make you change parties, change philosophies, hell, even change gender, but if at any point after that eighth birthday, even so much as one day later you switch teams, you are rendered a failure as a person and subject to public shunning and completely justified brutality.
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