More than two years since he threw his last pass as a San Francisco 49er, he stood in front of 20,000 hero worshipers this afternoon and retired from professional football.

"Or possibly a hero worshiper," suggested Poirot.

The Elsas of this world are hero worshipers.

You are a hero worshiper if you are so excited by a person's strengths that you cannot see his or her weaknesses.

"We as a nation are hero worshipers," he said, a bit of a canned answer, I thought.

Or like hero worshipers.

I was a hero worshiper, a romanticist, highly sentimental and entirely impractical.

Instead, Mahon seemed to have ducked into a hole under a hill where he sat, drinking and enjoying himself, leaving the unsuspected little hero worshiper outside in the dark.

The Hall of Fame is at the end of the block, looking more like a small, noble high school than a mecca for nostalgia buffs and hero worshipers.

I entirelly believe that you are not a hero worshiper and that you do your best to think issues through.