If the mere thought of Tom Brady marching down the field with those dinky, 8-yard dump-off passes gets your blood boiling, or the monotone musings of Bill Belichick dodging another question makes you want to pull your hair out, a Carnegie Mellon University professor has some health advice ahead of today’s stressful AFC championship between the Steelers and New England Patriots.
“As fans, we don’t have much control over the outcome of the game, so you have a feeling of not being able to do anything about the ups and downs of the game,” said David Creswell, associate professor of psychology at CMU.