When men take football seriously, they sometimes don't behave well. That is borne out in domestic violence data.
The number of police reports of at-home male-on-female intimate partner violence rises by 8% following upset losses by an NFL home team, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper. It was based on law enforcement data on Sundays during football season. An upset win has at best "a small dampening effect" on this kind of violence, the paper said.
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