Jesus can’t play Rugby…
Jesus can’t play rugby cuz he only has 12 men
Jesus can’t play rugby cuz his scrum caps full of thorns
Jesus can’t play rugby cuz his toe spike is illegal
Jesus can’t play rugby cuz his dad’ll fix the game
Jesus can’t play rugby cuz he’s stuck behind a rock
Jesus can’t play fly half cuz he’s got hole in his hands
Jesus can’t play fullback cuz he can’t block out the sun
Jesus can’t play touch judge, cause His arms they point both ways,
Jesus can’t play in tournaments cuz he takes three days to heal
Jesus can’t kick for touch, cuz His feet are nailed together,
Jesus can play rugby cuz he turns water into wine
Please lord were only kidding
Bill Cosby did a great bit about a father who took his kid out day after day, training him, teaching him, integrating him into sports. Years of training, driving the kid to practice and wanting his son to be a sports hero finally pay off. The father’s young man breaks into professional sports! He is on T.V! He breaks tackles, makes it into end zone (he scores!) and a camera is pointed in his face, and he says, “Hi mom!”
By “up for debate” I mean an unsettled issue, not actually being debated. I thought that was obvious from the context.
In any case, what he says and what he means in that case are two different things. What he means is “I want to thank the doctor from Barbados who prescribed me 86 cases of HGH so I’d be really good at hitting home runs.”
The hell it isn’t.
But… but you **know **it! He **said **so!
How is someone thanking God is preaching? I guess we have differnt definitions.
Let me see here, from m-w.com
Main Entry: preach
Pronunciation: \ˈprēch\
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English prechen, from Anglo-French precher, from Late Latin praedicare, from Latin, to proclaim, make known, from prae- pre- + dicare to proclaim — more at diction
Date: 13th century
intransitive verb
1: to deliver a sermon - NOPE
2: to urge acceptance or abandonment of an idea or course of action ; specifically : to exhort in an officious or tiresome manner
transitive verb NOPE
1: to set forth in a sermon <preach the gospel> NOPE
2: to advocate earnestly <preached revolution> NOPE
3: to deliver (as a sermon) publicly
4: to bring, put, or affect by preaching <preached the…church out of debt — American Guide Series: Virginia> NOPE
Somebody proclaiming they have faith in God is not preaching. Someone telling you to have faith in God, that’s preaching.
It’s witnessing. All unsolicited witnessing is is preachy and obnoxious. Am I saying it should be illegal? No. I’m just saying I find it annoying. Also stupid.
Well, apparently God doesn’t like it.
Why would anyone object to that? Their mother and father exist.
And, presumably, played an active and quantifiable role in their upbringing.
Exactly. There’s a difference between thanking God for making you fast/strong/healthy/talented, and thanking God because he fixed the game for you.
Another common boilerplate is “I give God all the glory.” It means much the same thing – they’re trying to express (in mangled jock-speak) that while a reporter is putting a mike up to them and putting them on TV, they’re trying to stay humble and credit God for giving them their talents.
It’s very rare, in my observation, for someone to flatly say anything akin to “we won because God wanted us to,” unless they’re expressing something akin to fate or luck.
I especially enjoy it when boxers or MMA fighters thank God for allowing them to be healthy and strong enough to beat the shit out of someone.
I’d have much less of a problem with it if they blamed God when they lost, too.
It’s grandstanding. It’s like they are standing under a huge, blinking neon light in order to show how humble they are. If they want to actually thank something they should thank evolution and their genes, not some pretend sky daddy.
Except in “Blanket” Jackson’s case.
I remember a track meet in high school where the guy next to me (a teammate) started praying for god to help him in the upcoming race. What kind of asshole move is that? How isn’t it cheating? The guy joins a sport where he, allegedly, competes man to man and then asked a super powerful being to fix it so he can win? He actually had no shame about it either. Either his god doesn’t take requests or I crushed him and his god at the half-mile on that day. Either way, it felt good.
What do you mean Jesus didn’t care about sports? Jesus loved sports. Even on his dying day you could hear him shout:
Gimme a T!
He hasn’t been any good for football ever since then, though. He used to be a fair wide receiver, but ever since the crucifixion, the ball keeps going right through his hands.
Yeah, his footwork needs improvement. He’s running around out there like he’s got some wooden planks nailed to them or something.
Watch from 4:21 onward: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZeHvJDxas