A Sense of Belonging In most cases, this deep attachment to a team can be healthy, studies have found.
Highs and Lows of Rooting In 1993 psychologists at the University of Kansas came up with a survey for measuring a fan's attachment to his team.
Great place, and Pittsburgh's attachment to its team — gear everywhere, in every corner of every concern — reminds me of nothing so much as the fanatic and single-minded attachment of my own beaten-down but soulful town, Montreal, to its team, the Canadiens.
It's bad for television ratings, and it means that lots of boys and girls grow up here without much attachment to a team.
Many of these verbal cues also played upon audience members' emotional attachment to players, teams, and the game itself.
"When they finally enacted it, he was very low because of his emotional attachment to the Montclair team and the coaches.
But beneath Çarşı's sense of humor lies a deeply romantic attachment to their beloved team, which is often expressed in poetry.
But beneath Çarşı's sense of humour lies a deeply romantic attachment to their beloved team, which is often expressed in poetry.
For Epstein, though, the challenge was to look beyond the euphoria of 2004, to strip away sentimental attachments to the team that broke Babe Ruth's curse.
