Just once I would like to hear a sport star thank Quetzalcoatl...

[texas1928]

For helping him win the game.

[redqueen]

1. Hahahahahaha

:thumbsup:

[Initech]

2. What about Krishna? You never hear any sports stars praise Krishna.

Know why? I quote George Carlin - "God is undefeated."

[texas1928]

8. Krishna is to peaceful of a god.

Or I could be wrong.

[ThomCat]

3. Or thank God for the loss

because it must have been God's will, and there must be a good reason for it.

[texas1928]

4. The other team prayed harder.

:P

[MrCoffee]

5. the next time Roger Federer pulls out his latest victim's heart and eats it

he'll thank the Big Q

[texas1928]

6. See ritual sacrifice should be a must.

I mean you sacrifice the worst player on the team... That would get everyone to perform at their best.

[MrCoffee]

7. dude...the field goal kicker only gave 106%...bring me the obsidian blade!

[texas1928]

9. Coach: "you keep dropping passes and we are going to cut your heart out"

[Critters2]

10. Actually, Girard says there is a conenction between team sports

and ritual sacrifice. Team sports help us work out the competitive sense that used to manifest in ritual sacrifice. Honest.

[texas1928]

11. So we used to compete to see who could sacrifice the best.

HMMM...


OH YEAH!!! we sacrificed that Woolly Mammoth over there. SO take that. I could see cavemen having that argument.

[Critters2]

12. It all has to do with humans having violent tendencies,

and finding ritual ways to work them out. This keeps us from pummeling each other over a bad batch of cornflake-encrusted chicken or being late for staff meetings. Once we did it with ritual sacrifice, now we do it with organized sports.

[texas1928]

13. Oh no I kill people if they are late to staff meetings.

And we have sword fights if the daily reports are not done in time.

[Critters2]

14. I know some anthropologists who'd like to meet you

and your co-workers.

[texas1928]

20. We eat outsiders.

[SoxFan]

15. Naw, that's Rodney Harrison's job

[Deep13]

16. I mostly credit Baal for my success. n/t

[texas1928]

18. So you thank God.

I mean Jewish worship the same God Christians do, They just don't like Jesus.

[Deep13]

21. I thought Baal was a rival god. n/t

[texas1928]

22. Here is what I found.

At first the name Ba'al was used by the Jews for their God without discrimination, but as the struggle between the two religions developed, the name Ba'al was given up in Judaism as a thing of shame, and even names like Jerubba'al were changed to Jerubbosheth: Hebrew bosheth means "shame". Zondervan's Pictorial Bible Dictionary (1976) ISBN 0-310-23560-X

[Deep13]

23. In that case, I thank Dagon, the god of the Philistines. nt

[texas1928]

24. Here is a list...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deities

[Oeditpus Rex]

17. I'd like to hear one say, 'God had nothing to do with this'

"God can't throw a hard slider or hit the curve ball or break up a double play, and he sure as hell can't play the Monster. We put him in for late-inning defense once, and Jeter hit one off the wall and God didn't play the carom. It went for a triple, and then Jeter scored on a wild pitch. Either they trade me or God, but I'm not playing on the same ball club with that fuckin' old man."

[texas1928]

19. Yeah, he has lost alot of game lately...

I bet he is cut after this year.