Mike Schur

Every throw and every successive throw made them go crazier and crazier.

Look at that.

Look at that, John.

And they dump beer on each other and they throw napkins in the air.

And then I noticed as I'm watching the video, I start to notice they're all dressed in costume, these fans.

They are wearing Harry Potter costumes.

Some of them are dressed like the Jamaican bobsled team.

So I had the idea for the book.

Immediately, I called Joe and I said, you got to watch this video.

And then I think we should write a book where we go around the world and go to these weird events and try to see if my theory that I'm forming in real time

is true, which is these fans, as crazy as they look and as crazy as they're acting, are essentially just like us.

That they're like, I recognize in myself a passion and a fervor and an insanity that for me is reserved for baseball and the NBA and whatever else, but for these people, it was these two stocky, blank-faced British dudes throwing darts at a dartboard.

And he watched the video and he basically said, yeah, let's do it.

And then that's the beginning of the adventure.

One of the things that I think you guys share in common that I love to tap into, because I think it's really at my core as well, although it's coated with many now poisoned layers of irony.

is the idea of, like, you look at this scene at the Alley Pally in England, and these characters are like Ronald McDonalds, and it's crazy.

And on some level, it's like, this seems almost sarcastic or ironic.

And then you watch these videos or you attend any given sporting event in which people care,

And you're, like, brought to tears.

I think to me, the most important interview or event that we undertook was we talked to a professor of sports psychology named Daniel Wan.