“When people think about entertainment in general, they think it has to be fun and pleasurable. But enjoyment doesn’t always mean positive emotions. Sometimes enjoyment is derived by having the negative emotion, and then juxtaposing that with the positive emotion.” - Prabu David, associate professor of communication at Ohio State.
Every August as the day pages of the calendar fall away inexorably toward the date of the first game of the new college football season, fans undergo a kind of “training” for the season ahead that is not too unlike the assassin training montage in the great political thriller “The Parallax View.