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JERSEY BOYS

John Amraen, Ralph Marrero, and Ben Heller wear their team colors proudly.

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P Roma Downey

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P Dustin Hoffman

Q: Does Dustin Hoffman

play the piano like his

character in Last Chance

Harvey? —Joe Abuelo,

Columbia, S.C.

A: He does indeed. “I originally wanted to be a jazz pianist,” the actor, 74, has said. The song he

Q: Whatever happened

to Touched by an Angel

star Roma Downey?

—Molly Pekar, Racine, Wis.

A: The actress, 51, is producing an animated DVD series called Little Angels, which helps teach preschoolers their ABCs and numbers while also introducing them to Bible stories. “When I was a child, there was a charm-ing nighttime prayer we would say that became the inspiration for the series,” she says. “I thought it would be marvelous to have something reminding children that they’re always being looked after.”

WALTER SCOTT ASKS …

Jeremy SistoThe 37-year-old star of the ABC series Suburgatory (Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m. ET) is expecting his second child, a boy, with wife Addie Lane in the spring.

Have you chosen a name for the new arrival? The name-picking thing is so random. For a while we just gave up. [laughs] The tentative plan is to have a list and make that decision when he pops out.What were some of your odd jobs early on? I was a sandwich artist at Subway and can still rattle off the order of toppings. I was fi red because I got meatball sauce on the ivory cutting boards. Is it true you’re a magician? No. I have to change that [on my Wikipedia page]. I don’t have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.What is your secret talent? I play the guitar and I juggle. Your Clueless costar Alicia Silverstone is guesting on

Suburgatory. Do you fi nally get the girl now

that you play a nice guy? Wouldn’t that be funny? In the other movie we did together [1995’s Hideaway], I was a serial killer, so this will be our fi rst

normal interaction.

Letters to Walter Scott can be sent to P.O. Box 5001, Grand

Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163-5001

closely with CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind)—the show is based in Toronto—and has gained a deeper sense of empathy for those with vision loss. “While we were shooting in Turkey, someone grabbed my arm to try and ‘help’ me,” he says. “I was fl attered, but real blind people don’t appreciate being grabbed. If you think they might need help, ask fi rst.”

plays in the 2008 fi lm is called “Shoot the Breeze”; Hoffman composed the music after his fi rst girlfriend dumped him for their acting teacher. Years later, Bette Midler wrote lyrics for the tune, and they performed it together in 1977.

Q: I love Covert Affairs.

Is the actor who plays

Auggie really blind, or is

he just a terrifi c actor?

—Vicki Egan, St. Louis

A: “I’m just a terrifi c actor,” laughs Christopher Gorham, 37. He works

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clinching the American

Idol crown in 2006, emerg-ing as the runner-up to Taylor Hicks. Now, after three albums and a hand-ful of acting gigs, she’s hitting a career high note with the NBC series Smash (Mondays, 10 p.m. ET), playing an actress angling for her big break in a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe. When success doesn’t happen overnight, the 27-year-old with the prodigious pipes tells Shawna

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to focus on her record and stuff. Then I heard about [the elopement] on Twitter! Kellie was like [adopts

southern accent], “Girl, I’m so sorry.” I was bummed.

What was your worst

pre-fame gig?

Cold-calling for a small refi nance company. That only lasted a month because I’m not a pushy person. I stayed longest at [clothing store] Planet Funk. I got really good at folding jeans. One time, though, this guy bought a pair of jeans for $100 and later the manager said, “You rang this person up for $1.” I thought, “Kat, you’re an idiot!”

How do you like to

spend your Sundays?

I enjoy going to church. I also enjoy days where I just sleep in, go grocery shopping, and [have friends over]. I love enter-taining. I get so much joy out of serving people, like, “I’ll take your coat.”

Who’s the bigger romantic,

you or your husband?

We’re not super-mushy people. I love verbal romanticism, like, “I can’t wait to take you home tonight.” Sexy things. But you’re always more romantic in the beginning of a relationship. I mean, who really does that after being married awhile?

You once joked that you

wanted 15 kids. Are you

still eager to be a mom?

The reason I haven’t had kids yet is because I was so focused on my acting career, hoping I could get something to break. We’ll see how it goes. I’d try to plan [a pregnancy] because I’d want to be courteous of the show, although you can’t always control it. It is life.

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Your fellow Idol fi nalist Kellie Pickler was a bridesmaid at your 2008 wedding [to producer Nick Cokas]. Were you upset when she eloped

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n football sundays in Wisconsin, John O’Neill is not just John O’Neill. He is St. Vince, clad in a green papal robe and matching green headdress adorned with the face of legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi. In his right hand is a four-foot-long scepter topped with a Packers cheese head. St. Vince has been a

fi xture at almost every Packers home game since 1997, when O’Neill and his wife, Mary Beth Johnson—an equally rabid Green Bay fan—devised his costume in honor of the team’s fi rst Super Bowl appearance in nearly 30 years.

“I wanted to represent the spirit of Lombardi come down from heaven to see his Packers play in one more Super Bowl,” says O’Neill, 59, a former corrections officer at Oakhill Correctional Institution in Oregon, Wis. Fifteen years after his debut, St. Vince is now more famous among Packers fans than many of the players.

If football is the unoffi cial national religion, then Super Bowl Sunday is its High Holiday. And O’Neill is one of its

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They sport costumes. Collect tons of memorabilia. Are covered in face paint and ta� oos. The psychology behind the extreme dedication of a football fanatic. BY WILL LEITCH

DUSTIN “KIDSTALLYN” HOLMES Arizona Cardinals

JOHN “ST. VINCE” O’NEILL Green Bay Packers


acolytes, alongside other legendary NFL superfans like Ed Anzalone (a.k.a. “Fireman Ed”), a retired New York City fi re-fi ghter who has led Jets fans in a “J-E-T-S!” chant at games since 1986, or John “Big Dawg” Thompson (he legally changed his name), for two decades lead pup in a group of Cleveland Browns fans known as the Dawg Pound. On Super Bowl Sunday, we’re all football fans, but for these men—and women—supporting their team is a 365-day-a-year obsession.

IT’S A HIGH THAT CAN LAST ALL WEEK”

Every sport—and sports team—has its devotees, but when it comes to embodying the chest-beating, face-painting loony id of the American sports world, nothing can match the NFL fan. There’s a reason: Major League Baseball teams play 162 games each season; the NBA calendar is 82 games long; but NFL teams play only 16 games—every one is a major event.

“Each game becomes the centerpiece of your week,” says

Ed Hirt, a professor in the department of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University who has studied the psychology of sports fans. With so few games, “every one can be critical to the team’s potential for a playoff run, so fans have a lot of emotional investment in the outcome,” says Adam Earnheardt, associate professor of communica-tion at Ohio’s Youngstown State University and an expert on fan behavior.

That investment can even cause chemical changes. “Researchers from Georgia State University studied soccer players and extreme soccer fans and found that both groups exhibited the same increase in testosterone levels after a vic-tory, and decrease in testosterone after a loss,” says Robert Cialdini, a professor of psychology and marketing at Arizona State University. “These fans are almost physically merged with the team in terms of their hormonal states.”

And the intense emotions of game day don’t fade after the clock ticks down. “When the team wins, it’s a high that can last all week,” says Joey Liner, 34, a devoted Baltimore Ravens fan who has held season tickets since 2001. “But on the occasions they don’t win, you can’t sleep; you keep replaying every moment in your mind. It can take a toll on you.”

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JOE “LICENSE PLATE GUY” RUBACK New York Giants


YOU CAN WASH OFF FACE PAINT, BUT YOU CAN’T WASH OFF A TATTOO”

Lorin Sandretzky, 46, known as “Big Lo,” is a Seattle Seahawks fan, but that’s a bit like calling Albert Einstein a math hobbyist. His body is a tattooed shrine to the team. Up and down his legs are the immortalized faces of Seahawks luminaries like quarterback Matt Hassel-beck, fullback Leonard Weaver, and safety Jordan Babineaux—none of whom even still play for the team.

If you think about it, “the biggest fans are more devoted to their team than the players are,” says Daniel Cavicchi, an associate pro-fessor of American studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. “An NFL player loves football; if he gets traded, he switches his allegiance. A die-hard fan loves the team.”

In fact, that’s one of the biggest ways that superfans differ from casual fans, according to Cialdini. He says that most fans will trumpet their connection to a team when it’s victorious (“we won!”), but distance themselves after a defeat (“they lost”). But a superfan stays committed no matter what. “They’re grateful to the star player for bringing a victory, but if that player leaves the team, their alle-giance doesn’t travel.”

Permanent gestures


1If your team wins

their next game,

they’ll make the play-

offs—but it’s an away

game. The farthest

you’d be willing to drive

to see them is:

(a) Two hours(b) Five hours(c) Across the country. Even if it meant sleeping in your car.

2The total number of

items in your house

that bear your team’s

logo is:

(a) 0 to 5(b) 6 to 10(c) Too numerous to count. And anyway, does the matching toilet seat and tank cover count as one item or two?

3You’re watching the

last half of a playoff

game on TV when your

wife announces she’s

gone into labor. You:

(a) Grab her overnight bag and hop in the car.(b) Wait until the next commercial break and set your DVR to record the rest of the game before heading out.(c) Call a neighbor to ask if he can drive her to the hospital. It’s not like the baby will be there in half an hour, right?

4You are allowed to

take one thing with

you to a desert island.

You choose:

(a) Angelina Jolie(b) A raft. If you start paddling now, you might make it home in time for draft day.(c) A hand-crank radio. Who needs civilization if there’s a chance you can still tune in to games?

5 The Baltimore Colts

quiz scene in the

movie Diner is:

(a) Kind of offensive. Who would humiliate his girl-friend like that?(b) Hysterical. One of the funniest movie scenes ever.(c) True to life. In fact, you administered a similar pop quiz before agreeing to marry your spouse.

6When your neighbor

sees you outside

on a Sunday morning in

November, he says:

(a) “Good morning!”(b) “Nice jersey! Did you get that at nfl .com?”(c) “Wow! Is that you

under all that paint? The logo shaved into your head is a nice touch. Let me help you with those kegs.”

7A storm hits your

neighborhood the

day of the big game. The

power and landline go

out, and you realize your

cell isn’t charged. You:

(a) Spend an hour looking for fl ashlights, batteries, and bottled water.(b) Finish reading America’s Quarterback:

Bart Starr and the Rise

of the National Football

League before the light fades.(c) Ignore the warnings to stay inside and drive around looking for a friend with a battery-operated radio so you can follow the game.

8 You pride yourself

on knowing the

following information

about your team:

(a) Their win-loss record,

along with each fi nal score from last season.(b) The name of every player in the Hall of Fame.(c) The make, model, and color of the car driven by the team’s original owner. Which you bought on eBay and have parked in your garage.

9 You would name

your fi rst child af-

ter your favorite player,

if that player was:

(a) Tom Brady(b) Hines Ward (c) D’Brickashaw Ferguson

10When you die,

you would like:

(a) To be buried in your team jersey.(b) To have your team’s highlight video played at the wake.(c) To have your corpse decked in head-to-toe team gear at the funeral parlor, holding a remote and propped in a recliner.

Sure, you eat, breathe, and follow the tweets of your favorite team, but are you a true-blue fanatic? Take our quiz to � nd out where you stand. By Hilary Sterne

ARE YOU A SUPERFAN?

10–15: Piker status. Don’t quit your day job.16–20: An above- average fan. You try to catch most of the games on TV and have a team jersey in the back of your closet.

21–25: A devout fan. Your Rain Man–like re-call of your team’s stats is spooky, and if you don’t have season tickets, you scour Stub-Hub months before the season starts.

26–30: A bona fi de superfanatic. Your perfect Sunday in-volves donning a crazy wig and no shirt in subzero weather while bellowing for three hours straight.

Give yourself one point for each “a” answer, two for each “b,” and three for each “c.”

Then see where you rank on the scale.

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like getting a tattoo signal that im-mutable level of dedication. Tony Russo, 41, a strategy director for a pharmaceutical company, has been a serious Dallas Cowboys fan since childhood, despite living his entire life in New Jersey. Twenty years ago, he got a large Cowboys helmet tattooed on his back, not only to differentiate himself in a commu-nity of Giants fans but also to signal to other Cowboys fans that he meant business. “A tattoo says to people, ‘I’m not a new fan, and I don’t just like the team when they’re winning,’ ” he says. “You can always wash off face paint, but you can’t wash off a tattoo.”

That same logic extends to other “peacocking” displays, like wearing a crazy costume, naming your child after a beloved coach, or devoting gobs of money—and space—to team keepsakes. Big Lo, who lives just outside Seattle, has a collection of Seahawks memorabilia that fi lls his entire home. (He hopes the items can be used someday to create a Seattle Sports Hall of Fame.) “I’m a passionate guy,” Big Lo explains. “My motto is, if you’re gonna love something, just love it, you know?”

THE ONLY WAY

I’LL MISS A GAME

IS A DEATH OR

BIRTH IN THE

IMMEDIATE FAMILY”

Joe Ruback, 41, athletic director at the Biondi school in Yonkers, N.Y., is a Giants fan known for the collec-tion of personalized license plates—like “G1ANTS,” “NFL NYG,” and “EL1MVP”—that he wears strung together in a long chain around his neck. He started doing it when he was 16, and

10 • February 5, 2012

BEN HELLER Denver Broncos

AGE: 37

LIVES IN: New York City

OCCUPATION:

Paramedic

DEVOTION LEVEL:

Heller, a Denver native,

once pulled his ambu-

lance up to a sports

bar when on break so

he could watch the

Broncos game through

the window. But his

most obsessive

moment? The day his

brother got married

while the Broncos were

playing the Jets for the

AFC Championship, in

January 1999. Heller

smuggled a tiny TV into

the cere mony and

listened to the broad-

cast through ear-

phones. At one point,

he says, “I burst out

cheering. Everyone

thought I was moved by

the ceremony!”

DREAM: To score

season tickets. “That

would fulfi ll a lifetime

desire. My cousin has

Giants season tickets,

and I’m so jealous. Not

that I care about the

Giants.” —H. S.

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Buddhist monastery in India, where he joined in the ceremonies and received a Tibetan Buddhist name, Losang Buck. One of J. D.’s favorite memo-ries is of teaching English in Tanzania, where all his students were Muslim. “We talked about different religious beliefs, and the mutual respect was powerful.” This month, the Lewises are accompanying the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Australia, bringing medical care and supplies to indigenous people in the outback. After that, they’ll head to Antarctica, Argentina, Peru, and Haiti.

The family plans to return to the U.S. in July for their last project: using photog-raphy and fi lm to document needs closer to home, in Durant, Miss., where J. D. has a sister. While excited to catch up with family and friends, they will be sad to see their jour-ney end. “We really do feel like we are making a difference,” J. D. says. “In the past, we’ve gone on vacations, and it’s nice. We come back with photos and memories that fade over time. But with this trip, my kids will never forget what they’ve seen and done.”

how to pay for it. He calculated a $100-per-day budget for food, lodging, and other necessities, plus $25,000 for trans-portation. J. D. used his savings and took out a loan. Friends organized fund-raisers, and through the family’s website, TwelveinTwelve.org, strangers contributed as well. “People who’d been out of work for two years were sending us $10,” J. D. marvels.

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Since leaving Russia, the Lewis family has worked with children with Down syndrome in Thai-land, taught English to Tibetan refugees in India, spent Thanksgiving in Rwanda, and worked with kids in Kenya who have HIV. The family volunteers three weeks a month (the other week is for travel), and four hours a day are devoted to home-schooling. Both boys keep journals, and Jackson and J. D. also blog. They all sample the local food, though in China they passed on the snake-on-a-stick. (Buck did say yes to a donkey burger—it

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“one year became two became 10 years.” Now known simply as “License Plate Guy,” he hasn’t missed a Giants game—home or away—in nearly a decade.

“The most dedicated fans hate to miss a game and go out of their way to travel to away games,” says Christian End, an associate professor of psychol-ogy at Xavier University in Cincinnati. “Part of it is about demonstrating their loyalty, but they’re also more supersti-tious. Compared to passing fans, they’re more likely to believe that watching (or not watching) a game could have an impact on the outcome.”

This sometimes means placing the team above other social commitments. “I’ve missed countless baby showers and wedding showers because they’ve con-fl icted with Eagles games,” says Kelli Gail, 41, a communications consultant and lifelong Philadelphia Eagles fan. When a good friend got married during the playoffs a few years ago, she spent the majority of the wedding reception in the coat closet watching the game on a handheld TV.

“I’ve always said that the only way I’ll miss a game is a death or a birth in the immediate family,” says Liner, a vice president of sales for an online market-ing fi rm. “This season my wife was in the hospital with multiple infections after surgery, and the Ravens were play-ing. I was so antsy, she told me to go to the game. I like to say, ‘Family fi rst, then my business, and then the Ravens,’ but my wife jokes it’s the other way around.”

THE FRIENDSHIPS WITH

OTHER FANS ARE THE BEST

PART OF ALL OF THIS”

There is something about a team sport that brings out the collective; it encour-ages us to mentally place ourselves on

the fi eld, says Cialdini. There’s a sense of belonging to a larger community, whether it’s the team itself, the city that the team represents, or fellow fans.

“I work odd jobs to pay for the tickets and the travel,” says Ruback. “After this long, moneywise, I’m cutting it pretty tight.” Ruback admits he probably can’t do this forever, but hates to think about losing the extended family of Giants fans he’s met. “Those friendships are the best part of all of this,” he says.

For some, fandom can also be a way to connect with family. Dustin Holmes, a Kid Rock look-alike who goes by the name “KidStallyn,” is a former air force captain who attends every Arizona Cardinals game with his 12-year-old twin sons and father. Earlier this season, for the fi rst time, his wife joined in. “She always won-dered why I left at 6:45 a.m. for a game that started at 2 p.m.,” says Holmes, 40. She enjoyed the experience so much, she wants to go to more games.

In the case of Packers fan O’Neill, he and his wife are a bona fi de super-fan power couple. After Johnson, 59, helped him design his St. Vince cos-tume, she decided to create her own game-day persona. Today she appears at games dressed as “Cheese Louise.” In Green Bay, where game-day temperatures can drop into the single digits, Johnson decks herself out in green John Lennon hologram glasses, a Packers beret, and a foam cheese bikini. “It’s very, very cold,” she says.

“We’ve been married 27 years, and we’ve been dressing up for games for 15 of those years,” O’Neill says. “We’re hoping to do it for 15 more.”

And that’s really what superfandom is all about. The sacrifi ces fans make—paying an arm and a leg for tickets, planning their schedules around the games—they reap in their connection to the team and to fellow fans.

These people may be crazy, but if they’re gonna be crazy, they’re gonna be crazy together. As Big Lo says, if you’re gonna love something, love it.

RALPH

MARRERO Green Bay Packers

AGE: 57

LIVES IN: Dover, N.J.

OCCUPATION: Phone

company technician

DEVOTION LEVEL: The

fi rst game M arrero

ever watched as a kid

was a Packers game,

and he was hooked.

Today, his home offi ce

is stuffed with

hundreds of team

tchotchkes, including

Packers snow globes,

a helmet phone, a

Christmas village, a

Pez dispenser, and, of

course, a cheesehead.

He wears something

from his Packers

collection (which

includes silk under-

wear, sunglasses,

and patent-leather

sneakers) every day.

“I could have bought a

small house for what I

spent on this stuff,” he

says. Pointedly moved

to storage: anything

related to Brett Favre.

DREAM: “To go to the

Super Bowl and watch

the Packers win.

Maybe one day I’ll have

the chance.” —H. S.

JOHN

AMRAEN Chicago Bears

AGE: 49

LIVES IN: Fairfax, Va.

OCCUPATION:

Corporate director

DEVOTION LEVEL:

Amraen, who was born

and raised in Chicago,

spent 12 years on the

waiting list before

scoring Bears season

tickets in 1998—but

then his career took

him to New Jersey and

later to Fairfax. Rather

than give up his hard-

won prize, he fl ies back

to Chicago for home

games. He has made

the round-trip nearly

50 times in 10 years,

often in under a day.

DREAM: To visit every

NFL venue to see his

beloved Bears play.

“Sure, I’d like to see

them play in the Super

Bowl, [but] this is

something special—

to watch them in every

stadium. Well, maybe

not Lambeau [Field,

Green Bay’s stadium].

I’m not sure I want to

go there.” —H. S.

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