Oh, it's not that bad. My ex-girlfriend is a Duke student and Blue Devils fan; I visited her there a couple of times before the basketball season started, and it's absolutely gorgeous, all Gothic and old, big stone. Even the newer buildings, which, on the interior, are plainly recent construction, manage to keep that antiquated feeling.

>Noooooooo thank you. I'm actually glad Maine's basketball
>teams never accomplish anything. The hockey teams do, sure, but
>hockey fans aren't quite as... what's the word I'm groping for?
>Subhuman, perhaps... as hoop fans.

Any well-publicized sport tends to inspire riots, I think. Outside of the United States, soccer is the most popular sport on Earth, and the rabidity it inspires, particularly in South America and Europe, is downright frightening. In this country, where soccer is slightly less popular than hockey (and, ironically, I think women's soccer is going to prove the more profitable, because of the way they're doing things), the fans are downright civilized compared to football, baseball, or basketball fans.

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