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Article: Nonfans can tackle the spirit of Super Bowl Sunday.(Arts and Lifestyle)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- January 30, 2000
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You thought you hated football?
Please. No one hates football, the Super Bowl or anything related to the NFL more than Caroline Melia of Arlington.
"I cry," said the 27-year-old. "I don't know why, but every year, I hear that dumb pre-game music, you know, the dum, dum, dum-dee-dum, and I burst into tears. Then I hear the announcers, and I get agitated. I can't explain it. It's just a feeling - a feeling of hopelessness."
As hard as it is for some football fanatics to believe, there are humans out there just like Melia, people who loathe football, who think a first down is a kind of pillow, and that an incomplete pass is when you say no to a ...