The NFL players with the highest public profiles were those who had been college stars, at big universities, and the Giants had more of them, particularly Frank Gifford, whose good looks and effortless grace at the University of Southern California inspired Frederick Exley's classic novel, A Fan's Notes.
Before the weekend was over, Casey was in the middle of a transatlantic storm and Colin Montgomerie's position as every drunk American golf fan's favourite European whipping boy looked precarious.
Even in a tort-crazy nation it's hard to find a case where a jury ruled that a bat manufacturer was responsible for a fan's injury.
He's organized the fan club's shipment of 1, 759 boxes of the San Francisco treat from his home in Stamford, N.
He fills a fan's cup, pours more into the open mouths of audience members, then tosses the bottle to the crowd.
But the games are just a fraction of the sports fan's obligation.
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Mr Fan's will concentrate at first on porcelain artefacts from the period.
Mr Putin met the protesters and laid flowers on the fan's grave.
Mr Blythe, who was subsequently bailed, said he had only learned about the fan's death, and the resulting prosecution, when he was arrested.
Antonini and Feldman knew the one thing they had to get right from a fan's perspective was their portrayal of the iconic Master Chief.
It also notes a Miami incident during which Brown allegedly stole a fan's cell phone and a chair-throwing incident after a "Good Morning America" interview.
And yet when you perform a fan's accounting, the picture changes.
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In pro football, a conference championship game is much better from a fan's perspective if your hometown team is hosting (although just below qualifying for our list).
No statistics-based, computer-generated ranking system, which the Official World Golf Rankings is, will ever satisfy every sports fan's notion of who the best players or teams are at any given moment.
Responding to a fan's comment on Twitter that even if the Saints had a bounty program the playoff hit on Warner was clean, the former Cardinals quarterback messaged back, "I would have to agree with you!!!"
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Even though he lives in Manhattan, Hample was wearing a Diamondbacks cap because he's been a fan of Bell's since 2004.
She's a fan of the company's "Red Box" holiday campaign, for which it's putting a large advertising budget behind 20 to 30 items.
"Any time that there's passionate fan involvement, it's a good thing, " said Bill Carroll, vice president and director of programming at media buying and consulting firm Katz Television Group.
" As for the bold flavors, he says not everyone's a fan: "It's a love-or-hate bar.
Across the room, Manet's "Lady With Fan (Baudelaire's Mistress)" (1862) is dissolving in another way.
Lady Windermere's Fan is at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in London's West End.
Africa already has the premiership's largest fan base, outstripping Asia's, though so far Africans have been too poor to affect the league's finances.
The Super Bowl is the sports world's biggest amateur day, and if you're a hard-core fan who's spent all season paying rapt attention, you will be chagrined to discover you're suddenly in a room with chattering dilettantes, asking if that guy on the screen is really named Ochocinco.
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He's been a life-long fan of Ali's that at the age of 22, managed to arrange a dramatic encounter.
Mr. Ives saw Mr. Glass's abstract opera "Einstein on the Beach" when it first came to the Metropolitan Opera House, and he's a long time fan of the composer's music.
In L.A., the fans are serious, they want to win and it's a great fan base, but it's also 80 degrees and sunny every day, and if you lose, they're like, 'We'll get 'em tomorrow, and then maybe we'll go to the beach.
If anything's more annoying than a Red Sox fan talking about how at least she really enjoyed it when her team managed to actually win something, it's a Cubs fan talking about how he will.
View each country's fan photos through the link to the right of this page.
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