David Andrews sat on a duck boat, shirtless, chugging beer from a can thrown to him by one of the approximately one million people in attendance at the New England Patriots’ Super Bowl parade. At just 26, he had reached the peak of the football world for the second time in his four-year career as a professional — and he seemingly enjoyed every minute of it while thousands cheered him on. He was quite literally on a pedestal.
In this day and age, we generally like to see athletes as almost super-human beings.