Why We Love Football
Grace and idolatry run crossing patterns in the new American pastime.
[ posted 9/7/2007 9:00AM ]
It's a warm and hazy day, and Frank and I are at our sons' Little League practice, watching baseball but talking football. Nothing could be more typical of metro Pittsburgh in June. The Pirates, at 10 games below .500, are ambling toward their 15th straight ...
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Rick
I think that if the author lived in Boston, the article would have been about baseball.
Anonymous
Shall we sin so that grace may abound?
Hank Halle
I don't understand how so many men can get caught up so intensely in something that simply does not matter. Instead, be intense about politics and your faith, things that actually affect the world. I'm no wimp. I love hiking and I work out. But I have simply never had this thing for professional sports viewing. It is boring.
Mike
Paul, Your wrong about more kids getting hurt in football. Look up the stats!!! You will find the all american sport of soccer as #1.
Dr. D, Atlanta, GA
This is a great essay! I passed it along to my husband who expected another guilt-inducing lashing by a well-intended Christian spoil sport. I believe a wise wife will learn to love sports if her husband does. My husband taught me to love college football, college basketball, and gave me custom golf clubs and private lessons early on -- and I am sometimes a bigger sports fan than he is! While all the other wives are whining somewhere to each other about being sports widows, I am enjoying God's beautiful outdoors, growing closer to my husband (and our college-age children), having screaming good fun -- and being admired by all the men whose wives will not join them. "An excellent wife, who can find?" Well, maybe I am not exactly an excellent wife, but being a great sports fan sure makes my husband think so!
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