Author Eric Simons on Cleveland sports fans and his book "The Secret Lives of Sports Fans" - WFNY Podcast - 2013-05-16

An author from the Bay Area named Eric Simons (pronounced SIMMONS I screwed up!) wrote a book about sports fans and their psychology. Naturally, desiring a unique subject to study, he scoured the Internet and came across WFNY's own resident head case TD. Eric's book is called The Secret Lives of Sports Fans and it attempts to answer a lot of questions about how sports fans are the way they are. There's some science and plenty of interesting stories including some about TD. I talked to him about his book and other topics for a bit. Why do sports make me feel so angry all the time? The physical reflexes we get when we actually watch sports Mirror neurons in the motor cortex MMA and why we dodge punches while watching a sport There are a lot of different ways to like sports Cleveland is a really good case study for sports fans anchoring to local teams People’s brains get confused about who the action is happening to Expectations and what it does to your brain Is this going to feel like a science book? Getting a word in edgewise with TD The sense that Cleveland is the best or worst sports city in America Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices