Sports Fan Research Paper

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In the world of sports there are millions of fans, of any team across all sports. As such every fan varies, because everyone is different in how they watch and represent their favorite team. Though there may be millions of completely different people all of these sports fan can be classified into 3 main types of sports fan. It is often easy to tell theses 3 groups apart. Firstly, there is the casual fan. This type of fan may have a favorite sports team, in one or maybe a couple of different sports. However they don’t really try to watch or keep up with their teams games or activity. If a game happens to be on while they are watching TV they may take the opportunity to watch it. But if something more interesting to them were on another

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