Just to former great Fred Smerlas describe his football persona. That s where you are. They can take it to a level where you can t even comprehend. You know, the anguished you ever been, if you get so strong where a person could pick a car up, that s what made the great players great. Now as Fred Smerlas just suggested, football has a lot to do with chemistry, and we just don t mean team spirit.
Chemicals are behind the rage, the aggressiveness, and what fans feel as well.
We know this because we asked a fan of the Patriots and chemistry alike. Harvard Neurophysiologist Michael Hasselmo, who studied the fighter flight response governed by adrenalin and its brother compound norepinephrine. They re really for putting the animal in a situation of being able to defend its life, save its like. That means you can t have the animal in that state constantly. Its very wasteful of energy.