[imgv94]

after winning a game? Personally I think it is ridiciulous...

I remember when my Rams won the Superbowl and they interviewed Warner after the game and all he talked about was GOD and was praising God for helping him with the victory..

So answer this, It's ok to thank and praise God when you win, but not ok to blame God for losing?

I would love to see a QB who threw a last minute INT that went the other way to cost his team victory say "I blame God for this loss, I hate God"

I am not against Religion or bashing anyone who worships God, all I am saying is I feel there is double standards here and I strongly believe God's Power has never effected a sporting event.. EVER...

[Illusion]

I have no trouble for the occasional use of the word "god" by players. I have trouble with the ones that use it in every other word.

[imgv94]

Have you heard Warner?

[Illusion]

I think Holyfeild was the worst ever, but I never heard Warner's comments.

[imgv94]

Warner praised God to no end.. His wife is a nut and looks like a dyke..

[TLD]

Brings to mind several things.

One of my favorite “God” sports quotes was after a college football game many years ago. Brock Huard, I believe it was, attributed his team’s victory to God’s intervention, stating that he actually “saw God place the ball in my receiver’s hands” on the winning touchdown pass.

This intrigued me, because he wasn’t just saying that God in some vague and mysterious way was behind the victory, and that he knew this through faith. No, he was talking about an actual physical event that he watched happen with his own eyes.

So what did he see? I’ve always wondered that. Did he see a giant hand descend and carry the ball to the receiver? Was it just that the path of the ball altered dramatically on a windless day as if an invisible force were guiding it to the receiver? I don’t think he ever clarified this.

Another one is, you know that most athletes, if pressed, will admit that God doesn’t prefer one sports team to another, but will say that they still feel an urge to express a generalized gratitude to God for anything good that happens in their life. One time, though, Randall Cunningham was asked this question, and he replied that absolutely God prefers some teams to others and will see to it that those teams win.

Which teams does God root for, you ask? According to Mr. Cunningham, he rigs the games in favor of the teams he knows (clairvoyantly, presumably) will “give him the glory” when they win.

So God gets off on all the praise and rewards those who suck up the most.

Lastly, never forget that God doesn’t just intervene in sporting events but can inject himself into pretty much any situation. For example, many years ago, Pat Robertson (whose religion holds that all human beings past, present, and future other than their particular subset of Protestantism will, deservedly, be kept conscious and tortured and made to suffer in unimaginably horrible ways for eternity by a loving God) led his followers in prayer as a hurricane wound its uncertain way possibly toward the southeast United States. As it turned out, this particular hurricane missed the US, causing a great deal of death and destruction on some Caribbean islands instead.

According to Reverend Robertson, this was because the folks praying in the US were of the correct religion, whereas the bulk of the casualties on the Caribbean islands were Catholics.

[MrX]

Which teams does God root for, you ask? According to Mr. Cunningham, he rigs the games in favor of the teams he knows (clairvoyantly, presumably) will “give him the glory” when they win.

Great! One more variable I need to work into the system. Where do I find the 'praise' stats?

[Ganchrow]

On this topic I highly recommend Sam Harris's excellent

Letter to a Christian Nation X

Letter to a Christian Nation.

[tacomax]

Thank God someone started this thread.

[Sam Odom]

Depends on which 'side' I was on.

[freebie]

I always tell god this will be my last game if he lets me win this one.

[kiwi]

I always tell god this will be my last game if he lets me win this one.

What is the benefit for god if you stop betting? Better promise him something better if you want to boodle him. Maybe you can promise him half of your winnings of that bet. :-)

[MrX]

I always tell god this will be my last game if he lets me win this one.

Damn, that's a good angle. How many times has He fallen for it?

[Dark Horse]

The fade works too. Usually when 'god damn it' comes into the equation, the bet loses. Amazing...!

[tomcast]

Thanking god for sports results is no stupider than a million other things going on

[jjgold]

Most athletes are phonies and are not even close to religious. The majority of black men in pro sports have 10 kids with 10 different women.

[bigboydan]

I think Holyfeild was the worst ever, but I never heard Warner's comments.

Warner was by far the worst. He would bring that stuff into the locker room. It got so bad there for a while, even the media jumped down his throat a few times over it.

[Willie Bee]

I would love to see a QB who threw a last minute INT that went the other way to cost his team victory say "I blame God for this loss, I hate God"

GV, there's actually a very similar quote in Jim Bouton's original Ball Four. I'll see if I can dig it up this weekend.

Some funny stuff in this thread. Thanks go out to taco, MrX, freebie and DarkHorse for some much-needed Friday chuckles

[HAPPY BOY]

if there was a GOD he would have better things to do than help some guy catch a touchdown. The world is a toilet and God needs to put in some overtime.

[imgv94]

Warner was by far the worst. He would bring that stuff into the locker room. It got so bad there for a while, even the media jumped down his throat a few times over it.

Yep BBD is right.. I think the media kinda avoided him at one point. It was really annoying. It was all he would talk about..

[Brooks]

it depends on how far they go.

i remember when trot nixon hit the homer against the a's in 03 and afterwards said God wanted the red sox to win tonite, i was wondering what the a's pitcher harden thought. a person who didnt understand the power of evoking god when achieving a great victory would have assumed trot was mentally ill. i cant imagine how many rapes, murders, violent robberies and deadly car crashes were happening around the world when trot was hitting that homerun yet he believes that god played a role in it.

in fact i wondered why even play the game. trot could have called up the a's and said dont bother showing up.

while sports and god have always been linked it really started during the cold war. we had to find another way to fight the godless communists around that time we also added one nation under god during the pledge of allegiance and i believe we changed our currency to include in god we trust.

one way to keep it all in perspective is to remember pat tillman who never beat his chest and point to the sky when he made a great play. he wasnt very religious and his brother said he didnt believe in god. if he is burning in hell id be happy to join him there.

[Dave]

what about the catholic church, who durring WWII had priests and bishops blessing the troops on both sides of the war?

[imgv94]

Found this on another site:


Quote:
After Curt Schilling pitched a great game for the Sox the other night, he gave all the credit to God in his post-game interview. He explained how in his previous lousy performance, he had relied on "himself," but once he "gave it over to God," he pitched like a winner.



Quote:
Baseball player Trot Nixon, of the Boston Red Sox, said about a winning hit against the Oakland A's in the eleventh inning, "I wasn't me swinging that bat. It was the Lord Jesus Christ."



Quote:
Sean Gilbert was told by God to holdout for 4.5 Million from the Redskins.

[Dark Horse]

George Bush thinks God told him to attack Iraq. For real.

lol


I better get me some of that tequilla.

[Lucas]

God is a DJ!

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