The ballpark was pulsating and one fan heading back to his seat with beers set them down, hugged a security guard and slapped hands with other rooters. |
The ball park has become an advertising venue and celebrity scene instead of a home away from home for rooters. |
For the Rangers' rooters, it's not as if this seven-year slump were another long-suffering Stanley Cup famine. |
When you go out, the Bannister rooters, and your Yale friends, will believe it is to try a drop-kick and tie the score. |
Cubs rooters, in fact, may well be the only fans in professional sports that learn from an early age to wear a protective cup to games. |
Yale may outplay Harvard, but if Harvard sufficiently out-cheers Yale she wins, and to the rooters belong the praise. |