three superheroes Wonder in American football.
Although, as everyone knows, superheroes spend most of their time fighting supervillains, on the rare occasions when they manage to escape having to go out and punch the enemy in the face, it is logical that they decide to dedicate themselves to their favorite pastime. activity which, in some cases, will have some relationship with the world of sport such as, for example, American football, since it is very popular on that continent.
This is why it shouldn’t seem strange to us that many superheroes choose to sit in front of the television, to watch an American football game when it’s time to rest from so much battle. However, in this article we will focus on train superheroes Wonder as famous as them The Thing, The Beast Yes Spider-Manto show their relationship with said sport, not only as spectators but also as players, as you will see if you continue reading the article to the end.
The Thing
And if we talk about superheroes who played American football, we cannot fail to mention them BenGrimmhow they discovered us, for the first time, in the adventure A visit with the Fantastic Fourpublished in Fantastic Four nº 11 (1961), by Stan Lee Yes Jack Kirbywho played it during his college days, on the same campus where he met him Reed Richards. In fact, if it had not been for his talent in the world of sport, he would not have been able to obtain the scholarship to study aerospace engineering, which led him to become an astronaut, a choice we already know how it ended.
Already in the adventure Madrox the multiple manthat saw the light The Fantastic Four in giant format nº 4 (1975), Leno wine Yes Chris Claremont They decided to find out who was a fan of the New York jet. And to end this section in style we cannot fail to mention the football metaphor used by BenGrimm in the cartoon By Blastaar: Betrayed!published in Marvel Two in One nº 75 (1981), by Tom DeFalco Yes Alan Kupperbergto explain the The Avengers how difficult it would be to deal with the joint threat of Annihilate him Already A tastewhich we reproduce below:
It’s like playing against PittsBurgh Stellers and the Dallas Cowboys Both.
The Beast
Another superhero Wonderwhich we cannot fail to mention if we talk about American football, it is Henry McCoyas shown on the comic book cover X-Men: Children of the Atom #1 (1999), by Steve rudeaccompanied in the script with John Caseyin which the adventure is collected End of childhood. Just like BenGrimmhe devoted himself to the sport even during his college days in Bardo Collegefrom which he was expelled when he was revealed to be a mutant, thus ending what could have been a prosperous career in American professional football.
Spider-Man
With his strong beliefs about power and responsibility, this is evident Peter Parker He wasn’t going to use his powers to become a college football star. This didn’t stop him from substituting an injured boy in a street match, albeit with some special rules for him, with the intention that his powers wouldn’t give him too much of an advantage. After winning the game, none of the players suspected that they had been a pawn in a brawl between the Vigilant and the alien A’Saias we could see in the adventure Fourth and Eternitypublished in Spider-Man’s Web #34 (1988), by Jim Shooter Y Sal Buscema.
Before then he had already had something to do with American football, as seen in the adventure The longest hundred yards!published in The Extraordinary Spider-Man #153 (1963), by Leno wine Yes Ross Andrualbeit not as a player, but in an interview with a fictional star from the world of sports, called Bradley “Boom Boom” BoltonWhich Peter Parker was performing for the Daily trumpet. As usual, things ended up getting complicated and Spider-Man he had to defeat the bad guy Pain on the same grass he had shot BenGrimm into an American football star.
It is also true that, on some occasions, both in cartoons and in the audiovisual world, it has been seen Peter Parker supporting the New York jetjust like BenGrimmwhich seems to indicate that, at the very least, he feels some sort of inclination towards that team, which doesn’t mean he has much time to sit and watch American football games, or any other kind of sport, since he has some enough of trying to combine his life as a superhero with his problems in his civilian identity.