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Bengals fans light a candle for the Bills’ Damar Hamlin.

Bengals fans light a candle for the Bills’ Damar Hamlin.
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I’ve spent a lot of time in this space trying to figure out the nature of fandom, the magnetism of sports, and where it all fits in our lives. The best I’ve come up with, and it’s probably not all that accurate, is that fandom is the allure of feeling part of something, of being part of a group, a sense of belonging, while sports acts as a distraction or bubble…


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