{"id":1578,"date":"2003-10-14T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-15T01:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/10\/14\/losing-causes-chemical-castration-of-f"},"modified":"2003-10-14T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-15T01:38:04","slug":"losing-causes-chemical-castration-of-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/14\/losing-causes-chemical-castration-of-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing Causes &#8220;Chemical Castration&#8221; of Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1465'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td height=\"194\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/manie.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\">What a difference<br \/>\n        a day can make.&nbsp; Yesterday after the game I was cackling maniacially,<br \/>\n        skorfing down a bloody burger<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorclares.ie\/page3.html\"><\/a> and<br \/>\n        a Bloody Mary, watching Monster Truck Mashup on cable and searching through<br \/>\n        my little black book for ex-girlfriends&#8217; phone numbers (no consorting<br \/>\n      with NY during Sox-Yanks playoff series).<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I feel funereal and listless, ready to pull on my bunny jamies<br \/>\n      and climb into bed to watch &quot;The Golden Girls&quot; on Lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s testosterone deprivation! Who knew? It turns out that when a fan&#8217;s<br \/>\n        team loses, he can lose up to 40% of his testosterone, compared to a<br \/>\n        fan whose team wins! Its been scientifically proven, by  James M. Dabbs<br \/>\n        Jr., professor of psychology at Georgia State University.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A 1994 study of male soccer fans watching the Brazil-Italy World<br \/>\n        Cup finals found that testosterone levels increased between 15 and 20<br \/>\n        percent<br \/>\n        in the Brazil fans after Brazil won, and dropped by similar amounts in<br \/>\n      the Italian fans. <\/p>\n<p>These changes affect both genders. Sociology professor Allen Booth of<br \/>\n        Pennsylvania State University has tested female rugby players and found<br \/>\n        that, prior to a game, their testosterone levels rose an average of 24<br \/>\n      percent.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>That must explain why so many of the women in Sports Bars have moustaches.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/yourlife\/health\/men\/articles\/2003\/10\/14\/hopes_and_testosterone_rise_and_fall_with_sox\/\">from the Boston<br \/>\n        Globe<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a difference a day can make.&nbsp; Yesterday after the game I was cackling maniacially, skorfing down a bloody burger and a Bloody Mary, watching Monster Truck Mashup on cable and searching through my little black book for ex-girlfriends&#8217; phone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/10\/14\/losing-causes-chemical-castration-of-fans\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}