The Sunday Evening Post: Super Bowl 44

Our resident Saints fan has the story of the Super Bowl's unlikely hero.Tracy Porter was born in Baton Rouge, played at Indiana, picked off Favre and Manning to ensure both championship wins.It's easy to try to link sports with scripted drama, or weight one above the other because of a preference for either the unpredictable or the precisely crafted. It's just as easy to predict that Tracy Porter's story will be dramatized in a half-dozen magazine pieces and softly-lit accounts of triumph on television.But it's also easy to see that the simplicity of who he is, what he does, and how the simple recurs in new and novel ways, is what makes sports so universal.Porter's job is to prevent the other team from scoring, mostly by defending against the pass. He can lift as many weights, study as much film, or put in as much practice as he wants, but he's just adding layers of complexity to a task that can be performed by kids in back yards.And what did he do on ...