A Cup Without a Country: The Pervasive Sense of “Other” from an American Football Fan

“You should be ashamed,” hollered a woman in a white Stetson with a diamond encrusted “W” glinting off the front of it. “You’re unpatriotic,” she concluded. My sister and I heard that sentence over and over when we attended the second inauguration of George W.  Bush. That was politics. That was Washington, DC circa 2004. [...]