Half of American fans say 'supernatural' forces are in play during sports events

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2014/jan/21/half-american-fans-say-supernatural-forces-are-pla/#.Ut7iHgPNCmc.twitter ^

[bravo whiskey]

i pray but mostly prayers of gratitude for everything from good health or avoiding an accident to seemingly insignificant things like finding a penny on the street or a model part i dropped on the floor. while i know there is no limit to how many prayers i work on the assumption there is so i am careful about what i ask for and will not “waste” a prayer on a football game outcome.

[WayneS]

I didn’t read it either, but I think it sounds like an attempt to portray rabid sports fans as kooks.

But now that I think about it, that would be redundant.

[latina4dubya]

“It’s only weird if it doesn’t work”

hahaha... this is half the fun in being so enthralled in sporting events... i have decided to retire my red suede 5-inch heels that i wore during last year's Super Bowl party and last Sunday's NFC game... i think they are holding back my 49ers! and then there are the baseball gods... :)

[elpadre]

coached HS for a number of years in 50’s & 60’s - always prayed, but never prayed to win. We prayed mostly to do our best, remembering you are not on your own, there are ten others - your are one, a team, play together, win together. As I once heard someone say, “If you do your very best, God will do the rest.”

[PUGACHEV]

"I’m sure God cares if a guy can throw a inflated rubber ball through a metal ring.

Personally, I have no idea what God is thinking, but the idea that he takes some interest in sports is not unique to us. The Aztecs, like the Mayans, played a sort of basketball where they tried to bounce a large rubber ball through a hoop using their hips and elbows. The Aztecs assumed that the gods would express their will by letting one side or the other win. As it happened, a few years before Cortez arrived a bright comet appeared in the night sky, and one prominent Aztec nobleman believed it foretold the destruction of the Aztec kingdom. Montezuma strongly disagreed, and challenged the nobleman to a game of hoops so that they might know the gods' opinion. Montezuma lost the game, and later his life, and the Aztecs their kingdom.