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“Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than …” — David Shields
Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.
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