{"id":39615,"date":"2017-10-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/french-football-team-makes-most-of-misspelled-jerseys\/"},"modified":"2017-10-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T00:00:00","slug":"french-football-team-makes-most-of-misspelled-jerseys","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/french-football-team-makes-most-of-misspelled-jerseys\/","title":{"rendered":"French Football Team Makes the Most of Misspelled Jerseys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spellcheck is a saving grace for many of us. But what about when you type out a word that <em>is<\/em> an actual, correctly spelled word&mdash;that&#39;s just not the right word?<\/p>\n\n<p>That&#39;s what happened to the French football team Montpellier HSC. The team had ordered new jerseys, but they came in with a tiny error: only one &quot;l&quot; instead of two in the name.<\/p>\n\n<p>So what did the team do? Thankfully, there was another town that could benefit from the mistake&mdash;Montpelier, Vermont.<\/p>\n\n<p>The team plans on sending the jerseys to Montpelier High School&#39;s soccer teams &quot;for a game or two,&quot; after which they might be sold locally to &quot;turn this all into a good thing.&quot;<\/p>\n\n<p>The high school&#39;s athletic director expressed his gratitude for the gift: &quot;We have nice things for our students here but certainly not the level of professional jerseys. 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