Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.
I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.
I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.