Sports Heros

Often in sports you hear of athletes who poorly remark on their [program, team, coach, players, fans], or players who use drugs, or players who chooke their coach (remember that in the NBA), or punch fans, or molest females on a private yacht, (like those girls had no clue what was going to happen).

Fans want to villify the Demi-Gods they themselves have created. We hear moans of how "so and so" makes $3.2million a year, but the fans are paying $100 a ticket in a sold out arena to watch that guy move faster/better then most humans do normaly. Fans complain about the coach/management keeping the player when he has done somthing so terrible. We must relise that this a an elite business. It is sad to say, but at my job I am easily replaceable, there are dozens of qualified math theachers who would love my job. For atheletes, it is different. A person who is capable of such amasing things is a rare find. There is (and only will be) 1 jordan, 1 grestsky, 1 woods, 1 aggassi and if thousands of people will pay hundres of dollars a peice to watch him, then the company can pay him millions.

Why, I think the Green Goblin in Spider-Man #1 said it best, "People love to see a hero fall." These athletes are our modern day mythos, our oddysius, our jason, our samson. No good story was ever told that the hero did not suffer. Deep inside we want Peton and the Colts to loose a game (I know about 40, 40 year old, dolphins players who would love it to happen {or are they in their 50's yet}). Why do we want to hear about Owens saying farve is better then Mcnabb (which is ironinc, given how every sportscaster has given Farve the eviseral BJ even though he is 2-7)? We want to belive that the Demi-Gods we have created can also be fragile and weak like the rest of us, that if maby this guy is a fool like me, I could have been a pro-athlete too.

This is my humble opinion (and I think Farve is way past retirement), that of a Middle school math teacher.