"Here's the best college team in America; they are better than
many professional teams. But they are not the show. As good as
they are, they play second-fiddle to the crowd. You know the
biological term colonial animal? It's an animal made up of
independent organisms all attached to one another. Most colonial
animals are in the water. And that's what the crowd is like --it's
like one great colonial animal that has immediate responses to
whatever is going on. "
Tom Wolfe on Cameron
Filed under: