1.   Any average fan investing emotional loyalty in a sports team today is a foolish romantic.

2.   Baseball would, in a sense, return to its roots, with much lower salaries, more dependence on local fan loyalty and stronger intercity rivalries.

3.   But they are a public trust in terms of building fan loyalty.

4.   Fan loyalties are shaken by team movements.

5.   Fan loyalty counts for nothing.

6.   Fan loyalty is a prime criterion.

7.   Few games can generate the fan loyalty of Civilization.

8.   Fan loyalty is a factor in recruiting, even for players like running back Dahrran Diedrick, a Jamaican-born Canadian from suburban Toronto.

9.   Fan loyalty is evaporating because of team and player disloyalty.

10.   Fan loyalty never used to be something a professional sports team had to earn.