Petey's Colorado Prayer Corner...

[4est_4est_Gump]

So what is it that so many around football — players, pundits, fans — are so peeved about? Why has Tebow’s faith generated so much controversy and criticism in a sports-entertainment complex that is so filled with clichéd Jesus praise that, to quote Homer Simpson, you’d think God only helped professional athletes and Grammy winners?

I have a theory. Part of it is redirected anger at Tebow’s success, after the whole of the football smart-set had come to the seemingly bizarre conclusion that though he was clearly one of the ten or so best ever to play the position in the NCAA, Tebow had no shot in the NFL. Football doesn’t like to be wrong; they’re mad enough when surefire prospects turn into busts, but when surefire busts succeed, they’re livid. They don’t like to see a guy who winds up to throw passes like he’s pitching for the Yankees — and only occasionally sees them land anywhere near their intended target — marching down the field in the fourth quarter.

But the greater part of it has to do with the curious double standard that seems to be in place when it comes to an athlete’s religiosity. With very few exceptions — Mariano Rivera comes to mind, as well as Curt Schilling, and post-“Prime Time” Deion Sanders — athletes’ professions of faith strike most believers, nonbelievers, and agnostics alike as empty ritual, an extended solipsism in which big men with bigger egos congratulate themselves for having God on their side. How could it be otherwise? We see that in fact so many of them are supremely arrogant — materialists, abusers, and lechers. We’ve become cynical and secular enough as a society that this dissonance doesn’t bother most people. The hypocrisy is actually sort of comforting, a confirmation that that old hokum in the Bible has no bearing on the world as it actually is. It’s the same sort of glee you see from some when Christian politicians and ministers are felled by all-too-human moral — especially sexual — foibles.

By contrast, Tebow is the last Boy Scout. A leader on the field and off who spent his college years not indulging in any of the worldly pleasures afforded to Heisman Trophy winners, but doing missionary work in Thailand; helping overworked doctors perform circumcisions in the Philippines (you read that right); and preaching at schools, churches, and even prisons. This is a young man with such a strong work ethic that, according to teammates, he can’t even be coaxed into hitting the town on a night after a Broncos win, because he is too busy preparing for the next week’s game. This is a young man who even turned the other cheek at Stephen Tulloch’s Tebowing, saying, “He was probably just having fun and was excited he made a good play and had a sack. And good for him.”

That’s way too much earnestness for the ironic. It’s way too much idealism for the cynical. And it’s way too much selflessness for the self-absorbed. In short, people aren’t upset at Tebow’s God talk. They’re upset that he might actually believe it.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/284806

It's TIMMAH! Time!

Do do do do, you can't touch this!

Livin' on a prayer!

Pray for me Colorado...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The 1987 Broncos were Eric Cartman's father.

 

[Saint Peter]

Not prayer.

Science!

http://www.nfl.com/teams/denverbroncos/profile?team=DEN

 

[Wat_Tyler]

It's run by Jesus.

 

[Saint Peter]

If it works, don't fix it.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You always have the option...

 

[Saint Peter]

I would rather be 6 and 5 rather than 4 and 7.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Satan's Spawn are 7-4 . . . .

 

[rosco rathbone]

I was just thinking about Tebow this morning. Another amusing example of our culture-war polarization. Every one of his victories is also a victory for Jesus, and by the principle of commutation, for free markets, low taxes, deregulation, the former Confederacy, dogs (as opposed to cats), beer (as opposed to white wine), pickup trucks (over Priuses) etc etc, on down the line. Every time he's sacked, Karl Marx, Satan, Ted Kennedy, H. Rap Brown and Noam Chomsky cheer from beyond the grave.

 

[Saint Peter]

Praise the Lord!

http://sammyvegas.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/tim-tebows-girlfriend.jpg

Tell me Kennedy would not like to take that for a romp.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Real Men paw titties like that.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I was just thinking about Tebow this morning. Another amusing example of our culture-war polarization. Every one of his victories is also a victory for Jesus, and by the principle of commutation, for free markets, low taxes, deregulation, the former Confederacy, dogs (as opposed to cats), beer (as opposed to white wine), pickup trucks (over Priuses) etc etc, on down the line. Every time he's sacked, Karl Marx, Satan, Ted Kennedy, H. Rap Brown and Noam Chomsky cheer from beyond the grave.

*chuckle*


If he's God's one, why is Satan's team still in first?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Real Men paw titties like that.

Real men paw actual grown up Dolly Parton bass-mouth size titties...




"Take me to the (Philip) river..."

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's Sunday...




Place your bets in the collection plate...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Real men paw actual grown up Dolly Parton bass-mouth size titties...




"Take me to the (Philip) river..."

And Timmah can't help his case any more against Satan's Spawn.


Of course, they're on the East Coast today, where they historically have had trouble.


And then there is Timmahdome . . . .

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Oracle of Phil A. Delphia says:

If you play in the MetroDome, a great team will be defeated.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I see Norv is getting fired.



No mystery.

The hiring, on the other hand...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Norv is a good offensive coordinator and a mediocre head coach. I wondered why Spanos hired him in the first place.


First place? Only by accident.


I got to watch my fill of him at the Foreskins.

 

[Ishmael]

There are some nights you feel like Danny Kaye at a Christies auction. Manic Depressive Movies presents.......

Ishmael

"Enter the hordes demanding links"

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Norv is a good offensive coordinator and a mediocre head coach. I wondered why Spanos hired him in the first place.


First place? Only by accident.


I got to watch my fill of him at the Foreskins.

You know that in two years, he's gonna TURN 'er up at another struggling franchise...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

You know that in two years, he's gonna TURN 'er up at another struggling franchise...

I know . . . but why?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

There are some nights you feel like Danny Kaye at a Christies auction. Manic Depressive Movies presents.......

Ishmael

"Enter the hordes demanding links"

No, new meme, Obama has done so great with so little, imagine where we would be if Republitards and Glibertarians had lived up to their "values..."

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I know . . . but why?

Because after interviewing al the mandatory minority candidates, he will look better than his record.

You can trust him to keep his pants pulled up.

 

[Ishmael]

No, new meme, Obama has done so great with so little, imagine where we we would be if Republitards and Glibertarians had lived up to their "values..."

Classic Danny Kaye.

Ishmael

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Classic Danny Kaye.

Ishmael

If wishes were horses, Obama would have never had been elected, that's the ironic ha-ha some yellow dawgs don't seem to see in their "serious charges..."

All we have now are comical Chargers!