We worship them like gods when they make great plays. We criticize them like mosquitoes when they mess up. These are athletes. One very important thing fans normally forget when watching athletes is that they are human like us.
Athletes are what we call the strongest of the humans. They are the ones who represent us in competition. Ever since man first walked on this planet, we have had competitiveness in our brains. The feeling was called “Survival of the Fittest”. Today we live in a modern world, where we don’t need to hunt for dinner or break our nails to make basic tools.