An editorial... but NOT by me
Once again, the main man writes. Stepping outside of the intellectual and putting on my "regular guy" garb, I just want to say I'm a Jets fan and I really have no emotional investment in the Super Bowl, except for the fact that the good people I work with are die-hard Bears fans, so with that spirit of kinship in mind...
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay credited God with his team’s come-from-behind win over the New England Patriots in the American Football Conference title game.
Excuse us for saying so, but we don’t think God gives a God damn who wins football games. At least, we certainly hope not.
The idea that God is up there fixing football games disturbs us for two reasons. One is that if God is spending his weekends watching the NFL, then we’d have to ask whether he couldn’t use his time more wisely on, say, Iraq. We don’t like to question God, but really: the weekend the Colts won the right to go to the Super Bowl, 27 Americans and who-knows-how-many Iraqis were killed. And if God’s tired of the quagmire in Iraq, how about the genocide in Darfur? And if not genocide, famine. Malaria. AIDS. Poverty.
We’re glad the Colts won, but not at the expense of people’s lives and health. If Irsay’s right, then God needs to, um, keep his eye on the ball.
The other reason we’re atheists in the God-picked-the-Colts discussion: We’d be a little concerned about God’s loyalties. For years, he seemed to be a New England fan. Then last year it was Pittsburgh. This year, it’s supposedly the Colts.
Are you telling us God is a flip-flopper? That he voted against the Colts before he voted for them? Frankly, those are fighting words. You can say what you want about us, but don’t be talking trash about God.
Invoking God’s name to explain sports victories is trivializing God. That’s likely to make God angry. And just in case God IS deciding the outcome of football games, you don’t want God mad at you just before Super Bowl Sunday.
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Let me (again as a Jets fan, anyway) make mention of this: the Irsays are the same people who, under the cover of darkness, packed up the Mayflower moving vans and took the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis, thus thumbing their noses at a once-proud football tradition. Remember, the Colts (then of the NFL) were the team beaten by the New York Jets.
Ah, I'll end it with two words: da Bears.
Have a great weekend!
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay credited God with his team’s come-from-behind win over the New England Patriots in the American Football Conference title game.
Excuse us for saying so, but we don’t think God gives a God damn who wins football games. At least, we certainly hope not.
The idea that God is up there fixing football games disturbs us for two reasons. One is that if God is spending his weekends watching the NFL, then we’d have to ask whether he couldn’t use his time more wisely on, say, Iraq. We don’t like to question God, but really: the weekend the Colts won the right to go to the Super Bowl, 27 Americans and who-knows-how-many Iraqis were killed. And if God’s tired of the quagmire in Iraq, how about the genocide in Darfur? And if not genocide, famine. Malaria. AIDS. Poverty.
We’re glad the Colts won, but not at the expense of people’s lives and health. If Irsay’s right, then God needs to, um, keep his eye on the ball.
The other reason we’re atheists in the God-picked-the-Colts discussion: We’d be a little concerned about God’s loyalties. For years, he seemed to be a New England fan. Then last year it was Pittsburgh. This year, it’s supposedly the Colts.
Are you telling us God is a flip-flopper? That he voted against the Colts before he voted for them? Frankly, those are fighting words. You can say what you want about us, but don’t be talking trash about God.
Invoking God’s name to explain sports victories is trivializing God. That’s likely to make God angry. And just in case God IS deciding the outcome of football games, you don’t want God mad at you just before Super Bowl Sunday.
**********
Let me (again as a Jets fan, anyway) make mention of this: the Irsays are the same people who, under the cover of darkness, packed up the Mayflower moving vans and took the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis, thus thumbing their noses at a once-proud football tradition. Remember, the Colts (then of the NFL) were the team beaten by the New York Jets.
Ah, I'll end it with two words: da Bears.
Have a great weekend!
posted by R L Ross at
9:01 AM
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