This is widely presumed to be familiarity with the surroundings, feeling at home, literally, so there is a comfort level compared to the somewhat stressful circumstances of being on the road, and then also thrust into hostile territory, the home ground of one's opponent as opposed to having a cheering section of one's compatriots where the balance of the spectators will be for the home team, simply due to constraints for many in making a trek to a competitor's arena. So there will be some lesser energy from a cheering section when one is on the road than when one is playing on their home ground where their fans live nearby.
These factors are only part of the story. The influences are assumed to be entirely psychological with perhaps an emotional component that adds some intensity of feeling, along with the conscious perceptions of the environment and the relative difference between a home and an away game. What is missing from the discussion is the power of consciousness itself as an energy from thoughts and their intentions. In a sense, the love for the home team, conveyed by the power of intention held in the spectators rooting for them, will act like a blessing to inspire, to uplift, and to empower the athletes with encouragement that will be reassuring and a further inducement to do their best in an inner atmosphere of positive expectation and confidence. Those vibrations have a real impact on things and can, all by themselves, govern an outcome one way or another.
There are many subtleties in the physical demands of sports where the emotional overlay, the ability to focus, and the fluidity of motion, relying on instinct and the accumulated experience base, will turn in a superior performance compared to one that is conducted by an athlete in the throes of anxiety because they are fearing failure or doubting their own ability, and this interferes with the body by the conscious self looking for trouble, worrying about the state of being, and overthinking what they might need to do next, and their mind simply gets in the way of what the body could do quite smoothly on its own, just launched forth through muscle memory alone. That is what is happening when there is a successful pass reception in the end zone and the players make it look easy, that state of confidence and relaxation will be promoted by the positive thoughts and intentions of cheering fans, and thus provide a living, breathing home field advantage.
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