"...brands you as a nerd".
"Nerd" is not the insult that it used to be, or so TV and the InterWebs tell me.
I'm too old to be one, as it really only applies to the "young", as it once meant "not cool" (whatever "cool" is - there's a tired term), and old f**ts like me are not cool under any circumstances, anyway.
Extreme interest in any activity, especially one that is in some way a leisure activity, is nerdish behavior. Hear that, Football Nerds? Man, talk about deep into something...
