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Just wondering: if religion and art have the power to bring people together, doesn't sport also have that same power? What better way to join "a tribe" than to support a particular team? Although, people who support teams do so for a vast number of reasons, and come to that team from many different backgrounds. Ted, for example, is an OU football fanatic, but he doesn't necessarily have a lot in common with other OU fanatics besides the love of the team. He went to OU, but so did I, and I couldn't care less about the OU football team. It takes the personal connection with the team, plus an interest in football, to create a fanatic. And it takes a bunch of fanatics to make a "tribe," or group of like-minded people. However -- if one had to choose the most cohesive "tribe," probably those people who were joined together by an interest in sports teams would be among the least homogeneous. UNLESS they were still in college, in which case the individuals would be similar in age and circumstance. I suspect that the most homogeneous tribe would be the one brought together by religion.