Football Players Are God.

Last weekend was Superbowl XLIII. Parties were held, bets were made, beer was drunk (by those over 21), and it was allover a great time. This year's game was especially great because of the intensity, it's not like everyone thought that the Steelers were going to win, and because of the commercials, even though many thought they were the worst in years. Even with all the hype, what makes this game so great, so different than any other? Don't get me wrong, I love Superbowl parties just as much as the next girl who doesn't really watch the game itself, but eats and sees a commercial or two, but I still never really got it. What makes this game so great? What makes any game so great? People watch reruns of the last minutes and attend parades after the win, but why?! What makes this game so great, and along with the game, what makes the player so great. People run up to football players if they see one in "normal life" asking for autographs and pictures as if they are some sort of mega-humans. I know some people who play sports at New Trier really well, and I've never seen someone go up and ask for their pictures or autographs. I also know people who are really smart, really pretty, really good at art, and still, they have never been asked. Americans love to think of people such as athletes as basically god-like, just because they can play a sport. The idea of them is better than the actual them, as far as their fans know, and yet they become the idols of people as young as 3 or 4. They are romanticized by Americans across the country, and some of us still just don't see the point.