For other people, the love of a team is primarily a psychological connection.
"You have this psychological connection to Manhattan, and that is important."
We've all heard of the psychological connections between cars and male virility.
The film sets up moral and psychological connections among the different stories.
Journalists in particular simply could not make a psychological connection between America's defeat and their dying.
So how could there be a psychological connection between that and your mother's suicide?
There might be a psychological connection here, but we find no evidence to support it.
The psychological connection towards a sport, event, team or leisure hobby strengthens.
There is ample material here to suggest some deeply psychological connections, but they are never revealed or, perhaps, understood.
The psychological connection is more important than the physical one.