Posted on 01/22/2014 8:05:33 AM PST by MNDude
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.
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... :)
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.”
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.
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