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Some NFL fans are born, others drafted

Monday, September 7, 2009

It's hard to explain to fans born with an NFL franchise stamped on their birth certificate that some fans chose rather than inherit teams. Take the perspective of epdroege. "Eagles fans just 'ARE,' " he writes. "They are fans before they are born, before their father even knows their mother's name." And yet we know from the hundreds of people who responded when we asked how SportsNation found favorite teams that a jersey purchased at a garage sale, a championship game or wanting to show up ...

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