Comments on: RetroPost: How Do You Respond When Your Team Loses? http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/retropost-how-do-you-respond-when-your-team-loses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=retropost-how-do-you-respond-when-your-team-loses Where The Christian Faith Meets The Common Knowledge of Our Age Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:36:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Goannatree http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/retropost-how-do-you-respond-when-your-team-loses/#comment-11889 Goannatree Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:35:24 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=1967#comment-11889 thanks for featuring this retropost. I find this feature of American culture fascinating. Being Australian I am well versed in the "religion of sport" but there it is pretty much Goddless. That is to say, Australians are more likely to religiously watch a certain sporting fixture than go to church! Why and how did do you think the intimate relationship between the invocation of God in the sporting arena come about? <abbr><em>Goannatrees last blog post..<a href="http://goannatree.blogspot.com/2008/11/purpose-of-education.html" rel="nofollow">The Purpose of Education: John Piper</a></abbr></em> thanks for featuring this retropost. I find this feature of American culture fascinating. Being Australian I am well versed in the “religion of sport” but there it is pretty much Goddless. That is to say, Australians are more likely to religiously watch a certain sporting fixture than go to church! Why and how did do you think the intimate relationship between the invocation of God in the sporting arena come about?

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]]> By: Drew http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/retropost-how-do-you-respond-when-your-team-loses/#comment-11077 Drew Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:12:16 +0000 http://www.christandpopculture.com/?p=1967#comment-11077 Good Word David. What year is that picture from? I am a big Oklahoma Sooners fan--so I got a kick out of the picture. As a Sooner fan I too have had to learn the discipline of responding in humility to my team's BCS failures! This year, I didn't get too too upset, in fact the next day someone told me they were really sorry on the phone and I didn't know what they were talking about--I hope that is a good sign. Anyway, I hope that I am keeping the Sooners from becoming an idol. And I think you are exactly right when we despair because of a football team it says something about where our hope and joy is. I too have had to learn the lesson that God ordains my football teams losses for my good and His glory! <abbr><em>Drews last blog post..<a href="http://electexiles.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/jesus-what-are-you-doing-here/" rel="nofollow">Jesus . . . What are you doing here?</a></abbr></em> Good Word David. What year is that picture from? I am a big Oklahoma Sooners fan–so I got a kick out of the picture.

As a Sooner fan I too have had to learn the discipline of responding in humility to my team’s BCS failures! This year, I didn’t get too too upset, in fact the next day someone told me they were really sorry on the phone and I didn’t know what they were talking about–I hope that is a good sign. Anyway, I hope that I am keeping the Sooners from becoming an idol. And I think you are exactly right when we despair because of a football team it says something about where our hope and joy is.

I too have had to learn the lesson that God ordains my football teams losses for my good and His glory!

Drews last blog post..Jesus . . . What are you doing here?

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