The team is more than the athlete, the coach and an ugly mascot, it's a sum of more diverse parts than you normally pause to calculate, it's speckled with more personnel than you possibly ever noticed.
The team is the security guard at the turnstile, the locker room assistant and the woman selling hot dogs with a tired smile. It's the people who drive the team bus and repaint the lines before play.
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