Sooner Holley: In addition to the constant ribbing I'm getting lately about how "Tebow is Superman – just admit it" and how I better start mining for kryptonite, there's a more personal Holley-criticism which is coming to me more and more frequently: Apparently, I lack objectivity. By not admitting that Tim Tebow may as well be Zeus and Apollo combined because he has faced more top 50 defenses than Sammy B. and the Sooner offense, I am failing to recognize some legitimate facts and therefore, am not an objective fan.
Objective….Fan….Objective….Fan….there's something that doesn't feel right about that pairing of words.
Oh, it's that they are completely contradictory.
If you are a "fan", you have a bias. That is the definition of the word. You support a particular team, group, cause, ice cream flavor, grocery store, yada yada yada. Objectivity doesn't really have a place in "fandom" or "fannery" or "fanaticism". (I think that last one is the correct noun, but honestly, I like "fannery" the best. It has a nice ring, doesn't it?)
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This article appears in Dec 17-23, 2008.