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FANATICUS: MISCHIEF AND MADNESS IN THE MODERN SPORTS FAN by Justine Gubar was a great read - unsettling and depressing - but a great read, nonetheless.
This book is well-researched and includes a very comprehensive and helpful Notes section; Bibliography and Index. There is an Introduction; 8 chapters and a thoughtful conclusion.
Ms. Gubar is a “four-time Emmy award-winning investigative journalist” and a television producer for ESPN for over twenty years. She is a good writer and impressive researcher.
I liked the introduction where Ms. Gubar says, “Printed on the flip side of my business card is our corporate mission: To serve sports fans. Anytime. Anywhere. But here’s the paradox: While we exalt the passion of sports fans, we must also face the dangerous and dark side of their behavior.”
I am interested in many sports, but increasingly I am too embarrassed to watch them. Interestingly enough, while finishing this book last night I saw a Toronto Blue Jays fan(s) throw a bottle or cup onto the outfield in order to distract the outfielders trying to make a catch. (This is during the AL East Wildcard deciding game.) And this is elementary school stuff. There are fights, drunken brawls, insulting, bullying behavior and riots happening at many games - football, baseball, basketball - you name the sport and many fans seem to be increasingly out of control. Many high schools and colleges have tried instituting ‘codes of behavior’ to varying degrees of effectiveness. But the pro sports seem too interested in revenue to try too hard.
Chapter 3 - Fans throughout the world is a very disturbing chapter. In some countries, you are courting death if you attend a sporting event - usually soccer/football. “Brazil, a country whose national identity is immersed in the game and that produces the best players in the world, has a sickening resume of fan violence.” Crime, corruption and lawlessness often go unpunished or restricted. “In 2014, in the city of Recife, a fan was killed by a toilet bowl that had been ripped from a stadium bathroom and thrown at him by rival fans.” Not a pretty way to die.
Chapter 8 - The age of Entitlement was the most interesting to me. Our culture seems to be one of increasing rudeness, entitlement and narcissism - in epidemic proportions. These traits are manifested on the playing field and in the stands to an alarming, dangerous degree.
What to do?
Legal remedies including harsher penalties for fighting and public intoxication?
College expulsions and codes of ethics?
Police? Security measures? Sanctions against teams with the rowdiest fans? How does one measure that?
What are your thoughts?


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Fanaticus Mischief and Madness in the Modern Sports Fan Justine Gubar Books Reviews

Gubar digs in deep to the subject. She's an Emmy Award winning producer at ESPN - and that pays off. She fully explores the topic - rabid sports fans who take their fandom to unhealthy levels - both in the US and Internationally, in pro sports, college and even youth leagues. Gubar describes how she dealt with irrational fans while covering the recent Ohio State NCAA issues. The book is very smart, told in a very engaging, readable fashion. You will finish it quickly, and you will have a better understanding of what causes the problems, why these fans step out of social norms, and how sports leagues and associations can begin to get things back in perspective.
This book offers some great historical and timely research into a problem that doesn't have a clear cut solution. I liked the author's work, but i would have liked more extended human storytelling. The narrative may be too clinical in the final analysis. I also wanted to hear from some of Justine's on-air colleagues at ESPN....like Chris Berman, Bob Ley,Tony Kornheiser, Mike Wilbon, Jemele Hill, Bayless, Stephen A. and others. That would have brought the tale more alive, in my opinion, and gave it more familiarity to avid sports readers I met Justine on her tour thru Seattle and greatly enjoyed meeting her. Solid work, for sure. Kudos for taking on the challenge.
For years, the notion of the Super Fan has been glorified in sports culture, yet we've always known a more ugly truth about fandom exists. Finally, someone has given fandom the deep, sweeping, serious contemplation it deserves. No PR hype here. In Fanaticus, Justine Gubar digs deep into the history, business and sociology of sport, as well as the nature of human behavior to explore why rioting, violence and bad behavior by fans occurs. While this well researched and engaging book touches on many issues outside the sports world like privacy and free speech, the exploration of how deeply embedded fandom is to our basic identity and how sports marketing capitalizes on this notion so that "just about anyone can turn into a rioter” is a startling reality that needs to be confronted. While the author contends that it is difficult to determine whether fan violence is actually on the rise based on an analysis of data, the perception is that this is a growing problem. This is an important read for sports professionals or students planning a career in sports industry and also, given the influence sports has on our culture, a fascinating read for just about anyone who cares about fostering a civil society.
Fanaticus is a very entertaining book but also provocative and well-researched. It covers bad fan behavior from Roman chariot races to Super Bowl XLVI. It delves into how social media is stoking fan riots and how social media is slowly being used to record and apprehend the bad actors. Justine Gubar is no Brian Williams, often personally going into the middle of the fray and even once tracking down and confronting face to face a guy who left insulting messages on her Facebook page.

The research part is important because it elevates the book from the usual sports collection of anecdotes, and makes the reader think of the broader societal implications of the phenomenon.
FANATICUS MISCHIEF AND MADNESS IN THE MODERN SPORTS FAN by Justine Gubar was a great read - unsettling and depressing - but a great read, nonetheless.
This book is well-researched and includes a very comprehensive and helpful Notes section; Bibliography and Index. There is an Introduction; 8 chapters and a thoughtful conclusion.
Ms. Gubar is a “four-time Emmy award-winning investigative journalist” and a television producer for ESPN for over twenty years. She is a good writer and impressive researcher.
I liked the introduction where Ms. Gubar says, “Printed on the flip side of my business card is our corporate mission To serve sports fans. Anytime. Anywhere. But here’s the paradox While we exalt the passion of sports fans, we must also face the dangerous and dark side of their behavior.”
I am interested in many sports, but increasingly I am too embarrassed to watch them. Interestingly enough, while finishing this book last night I saw a Toronto Blue Jays fan(s) throw a bottle or cup onto the outfield in order to distract the outfielders trying to make a catch. (This is during the AL East Wildcard deciding game.) And this is elementary school stuff. There are fights, drunken brawls, insulting, bullying behavior and riots happening at many games - football, baseball, basketball - you name the sport and many fans seem to be increasingly out of control. Many high schools and colleges have tried instituting ‘codes of behavior’ to varying degrees of effectiveness. But the pro sports seem too interested in revenue to try too hard.
Chapter 3 - Fans throughout the world is a very disturbing chapter. In some countries, you are courting death if you attend a sporting event - usually soccer/football. “Brazil, a country whose national identity is immersed in the game and that produces the best players in the world, has a sickening resume of fan violence.” Crime, corruption and lawlessness often go unpunished or restricted. “In 2014, in the city of Recife, a fan was killed by a toilet bowl that had been ripped from a stadium bathroom and thrown at him by rival fans.” Not a pretty way to die.
Chapter 8 - The age of Entitlement was the most interesting to me. Our culture seems to be one of increasing rudeness, entitlement and narcissism - in epidemic proportions. These traits are manifested on the playing field and in the stands to an alarming, dangerous degree.
What to do?
Legal remedies including harsher penalties for fighting and public intoxication?
College expulsions and codes of ethics?
Police? Security measures? Sanctions against teams with the rowdiest fans? How does one measure that?
What are your thoughts?