Posted on 11/03/2014 2:39:46 PM PST by Zakeet
When Fort Myers High school football player Sam Turner reached the end zone Friday night with the first touchdown of his high school career, he took a few seconds to bow down and thank the Lord, but that simple act ended up having a major consequence.
Turner, 16, who briefly bent down on one knee, placed his finger in the air and prayed to the Lord, was dealt a 15-yard penalty, with an official dubbing the prayerful act unsportsmanlike conduct, according to the News-Press.
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Now if he had got out the old smelly Prayer Rug, got down and stuck head on the ground and his A$$ up in the air, they would have called a time out for the devoted!!!
May even have given him two touchdowns :-)
“Once the leftists see that we’re fighting back,...”
Key words right there. Time to start making the satanic left pay each and every time they pull crap like this. They continually advance because there’s no real resistance.
At a minimum, he would have gotten a talking to from me. He can go pray to whoever the heck he wants on his sideline. But not in the endzone. This one was pretty brief. If the game was well played sportsman-wise by both teams, probably a talking to. If there was any amount of chipiness, he's getting flagged.
Score a touchdown, toss me the ball, celebrate with your teammates, get ready for the PAT.
The ref may have been some 0bama loving athiest, who knows. But the kid flirted with a flag, and the official gave it to him.
It is indeed. We take it and take it and take it. And we just look down at our feet while they are dishing it out. Case in point: They redefined marriage a few weeks back, scoffing at the Christians as they did it - not even giving us a day in court. That's the kind of people we have allowed to rule over us. And we just take it. The country formerly known as the Land of the Free can't collapse soon enough for my tastes.
The solution is to just check out of such organizations, and maybe form sane organizations.
I’m so very glad that they didn’t penalize my grandson when he won a national championship wrestling and bowed and gave thanks before rising to accept his accolades!
Sure made his gramma back home proud!
So if I player on special teams receives a kick off, returns from the 10 yard line to make a touchdown, he’ll be penalized?
After all, the attention is entirely on the runner.
Yeah... "some day"... "near future"... right.
...if his name was Roseanne Barr, perhaps.
I believe in the ‘Act like you have been there before and expect to get back there again’ method.
Now if they start giving penalties for ‘chest bumps’, excessive high or low fives, etc this may be acceptable.
Funny though, Baseball - which is almost devoid of ‘showing the other team up - has several players that ‘Look towards the heavens after a home run’, GASP! ‘Do’ the Sign of the Cross while stepping into the Batters Box, pitchers will come in the game and bow their head, and the ‘poor kids’ in HS have to go ‘out of sight’ of their coaches to have a pregame ‘meeting’.
Thankfully, the coaches and Umpires do not ‘penalize’ the kids. Yet...
Well, ‘they’ have gotten their own hours in the gym, swimming pool etc because of their ‘religion’ and shyness — guess public prayer will be next.
Funny how a ‘religion’ or sect of people that have no qualms strapping a bomb on themselves and igniting it have a problem with an ‘outsider’ seeing their nose or ankles.
Don’t they realize that when they blow themselves into smithereens that whatever bits and pieces that may be left are in FULL VIEW to all....
I also seriously doubt they would have flagged a BLACK player doing the exact same thing !!
...I think you have isolated a large flaw in our sociopolitical fabric...
...what is the vulgar saying...’different strokes’, something like that...?
In high school football, you are not to draw undue attention to yourself on the playing field.
...did it ever occur to you, being an official and all, to ask why this rule is in place...?
...playing a sport in front of viewers classifies as entertainment, if I’m not mistaken...and what is the point of an entertainer not drawing attention to himself...?
...how is praying in an end zone drawing more attention to the player than catching the pass itself is...are the viewers cheering more loudly for the prayer than the catch...?
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