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I spoke to one such chowderhead, 37-year-old Boston attorney Nathaniel Adams, about what it’s like to root for a team that much of the rest of the country is sick of—and whether there are diminishing returns on the joy of victory when victory is all you know.

Theoretically your club can make any rule it wants, but your friend is what we in the trade call "misinformed" or "a chowderhead."

Yet you mistake Paul Chowder for a lightweight — a chowderhead? — at your peril.

Buhner: I'll never forget a girl jumping onto the field in Boston — coming up to me and giving me a hug and says, "I just want you know, you're really not a chowderhead like all the fans are saying."

Out of these things, and many more, is woven the warp and wool of my childhood memory: the dappled sunlight on the great lawns of Chowderhead, our summer estate at Newport, the bitter-sweet fragrance of stranded eels at low tide, the alcoholic breath of a clubman wafted on the breeze from Bailey's Beach.