From fan to superfan

Recently, I read a very interesting article online. It talked about fandom, more specifically superfandom, and the transition between those two. What makes a fan become a superfan? In the text, we are introduced to Geoff Gass, a young man in his late 20s who became himself a superfan of the NFL’s Minnesota Vickings. His story is quite surprising. At first, he was a normal fan, but he rapidly became very intense. It all started with a Vickings website. Gass started making posts on it and soon became the most frequent poster. Believe it or not, he made about a hundred posts a year! As a…