Bizarre thing about moving to America to be in academia is all the fancy right-on lefty academicals are super comfortable making sarcastic comments about `sportsball' in ways which seem to me, humble Britisher that I am, like just naked snobbery. What's up with this?
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I think a lot of it is snobbery. I've been ribbed for being a fan of American sports (football, basketball) by numerous US academics. No one has *ever* given me grief about being a European soccer fan though. I guess here that's still seen as "exotic" and thus acceptable?
