"Baskets of chicken wings and pitchers of beer scatter the table terrain...the Sunday ritual beginning around noon is in high gear by the first kick-off at one o'clock."

One of the things that has been filling most of my mind this week has been football. With the Superbowl being played this Sunday people are starting to get really excited for the big game. When September rolls around each year, girlfriends and wives are subjected to football talk for 6 months out of the year. Some people follow their teams religiously, every game of the season, in hopes that their team will make it to the Superbowl that year. If their team looses that week they get upset, almost as if they think that they are on the team too. People like feeling like they are part of a collective group. Sports teams have the ability to do that. Even though fans are not actually a part of the team, they feel as if they have a group that they can stand for. Fans gather together in celebration of the sport itself and even through the losses the true fans remain loyal to their team. The picture I chose is a picture of a man at the end of a sporting event. He looks upset which leads me to infer that his team has lost. He is hanging his head but he hasn't given up on his team. Someone has to win and someone has to loose each week, that is just part of the game. He will be back next week like this one never happened.

Murray Silver, Behind the Moss Curtain (Bonaventure, 2005), pg 13

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