Five Rules to Sane, Empowered Entertainment Fandom

There are so many problematic faves.

My son William is a Cleveland Browns fan. He cheers for the Browns — who play in a town that’s exactly 703 miles from our house in Athens, Georgia — because his favorite player is former Bulldog Nick Chubb, and Chubb plays for the Browns. He’s such a big fan of the (perpetually beleaguered) franchise now that he…