Book Review: Why does watching and playing games of minimal real-world consequence bring out such fury?

John Patrick McHugh explores importance of cameraderie in new novel writes James McNaney John Patrick McHugh Sport is totally consuming for the fan, and totally bewildering for the non-fan. Why does watching and playing games of minimal real-world consequence bring out such fury, such happiness, such bizarre irrationality? The bewildered outsider may benefit from reading Fun and Games, the debut novel from John Patrick McHugh, which is structured around a young man playing Gaelic football over the course of three months ..