"And the Games Went On"

In an article created by Sports Illustrated entitled "And the Games Went On," the impact of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the National Football League are compared. On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot and killed while parading through Texas in  procession. Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was eventually arrested; he was killed two days later by a Texas civilian. America was thrown into confusion and mistrust. Leadership was blurred and citizens were left in utter disbelief. However, the National Football League supplied the sole sense of remote normality. At the beginning of the article, a football fight is described through the eyes of one of the players. He stated how one of the players had the head "swollen like a pumpkin," signifying a clear hyperbole. Another hyperbole is drawn when the author compares the ground of the football field to the bloodied floor of a slaughterhouse. In an analogy, the author compares the assassination to two other events, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attacks on the Twin Towers.