The Rant was used for research!

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For some LSU researchers, understanding that ‘Tiger Pride’ allows them the chance to combine their academic studies with their own athletic passions. Anne C. Osborne, Tom Jarreau Hardin Professor and advertising area head at the Manship School of Mass Communication, not only spends much of her Sunday afternoon watching her beloved home-state Pittsburgh Steelers, she also takes particular note of how others watch football, having conducted research on fandom as an aspect of how sports fans actually identify themselves

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Porter spent the 2009 college football season studying the SEC and how the Internet and fans interact. Many sites like Tigerdroppings.com and Scout.com are hubs for fans to celebrate or seethe about their team’s performance. Part of his research on how online fan culture is revolutionizing college football included putting surveys on websites, conducting a content analysis of major sites and interviewing webmasters. The results show that a defensive lineman isn’t the only one with a lot of aggression.

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