This is the book that answers one of the most asked questions in the living rooms of America today: Why do men watch so much football, anyway? Every Sunday afternoon in the living rooms of America, from the first week of September through the end of December, some 40,000,000 men are seated in front of their television sets watching football. Meanwhile, others are pouring into the stadiums all across the land, with a bounce in their step and hope in their heart. What is it that excites men about football? What's the big attraction? Why is it that some men will sit down for three or six or nine hours in front of a TV set when football is on, yet they won't sit still for more than 15 minutes for anything else when they're at home? Why is it that some men get so emotionally involved in watching football that they'll shout and cheer, jump around and otherwise act as if they might have a screw loose when their team wins -- and become very upset or even depressed when they lose? There's something going on in the mind of modern man that causes him to react in this fashion, something more than meets the eye. This book explains what it is. With the help of some of the nation's leading sports psychologists and sociologists and dozens of male football fans, this book explores the male psyche and arrives at several intriguing conclusions about why men watch football. Here are some of the reasons: - Entertainment, excitement, diversion - The need to associate with a winner - The need to have something go right in one's life - The need to be validated - The need to be around other men who act, think and talk the same as him - The satisfaction of victory - To be left alone by his wife and kids - To escape from bills and responsibilities - To re-live the glory days of high school football
About the Author
BOB ANDELMAN of St. Petersburg, Florida, is the central Florida correspondent for Newsweek and Business Week. The author of a 1993 book titled Stadium for Rent: Tampa Bay's Quest for Major League Baseball, Andelman has been recognized five times by the Florida Magazine Association for investigative reporting. His writings have appeared in Redbook, Travel South, National Law Journal, Billboard, Sunday Times of Canada, Cleveland Plain Dealer, St. Petersburg Times, Tampa Tribune, Detroit Free Press, San Francisco Examiner and other publications. Andelman graduated from the University of Florida with a major in Film Studies in 1982.
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