Once and for all, tomorrow we will find out if Tom Brady is God. A perfect season? Totally Divine in nature. I may have to retire if the Pats win.On a more serious note, I hope the players don’t thank God because they caught the pass, kicked the field goal, or ran for a touchdown. I find that crass, and really quite pathetic.Go Pats.
I think they pit the two best teams in the NFL against each other in the worst team’s city just to taunt those folks. (actually, it’s not hard to predict which team is going to be the worst team, it’s always the Arizona Cardinals, the challenge is in predicting which team is going to be the best team)
I HATE TOM BRADY AND THE PATRIOTS! THEY ARE KNOWN CHEATERS WHO SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE SPORT.
CHEATERS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO WIN.
THEY SUCK! I HOPE TOM BRADY’S ARM FALLS OFF AND SOME GIANT BEATS HIM TO A BLOODY STUMP WITH IT!
BY THE WAY, I JUST BECAME RELIGIOUS.
(I kid, I kid!)
good point,i hate when a player implies that an all powerful deity is paying close attention to football games.and so we dont suspect that god influences games,he sometimes makes it close ,and adds a last second miacle to pull out the win for gods anointed football team!!exciting isnt?also,i would LOVE to see a player Blame jesus for making him fumble in the third quarter.
As an Ole Miss fan I must support Eli and the Giants. SUCK IT, TOM BRADY!
Easy, now podry, it’s just football. I can say that because the Steelers sucked their way out of the game.
Which means now I can watch the SuperBowl mostly for the commercials, and not really care who wins, though I’d like to see Brady and the Pats be taken down a peg, to tell the truth.
How can you support a team called the Patriots over a team with the awesome name the Giants?
Will the network show the pre-game team prayer competition?
I dont care what drug using dog killer gets the ball downfield first.
Football is as appealing as religion.
I watched a funny episode of “Family Guy” last night and they hit on this exact topic…in their typically sarcastic style. A football player starts to thank god for allowing him to play the game. Then, in his ramblings starts to thank satan because, as he says something like “without satan, there’d be no god. god would have nothing to do if there wasn’t a satan. in fact, if there wasn’t a satan around to keep him busy that god would probably blow his brains out from boredom.” I thought that was pretty darn funny.
If both teams say God is on their side and are praying to God to win the game; will the losing team players stop believing in God, or just be mad at God?
God wants the Patriots to win, so bet the house on it!
Go Giants! (neener, neener, neener, Dave, *snark*)
Actually, I could hardly care less, and won’t be watching the game because I have more productive things to do today that must be done today in order to be ready for tomorrow.
The Super Bowl is all about money, and crass commercial*sm, and excess, and selfishness. I just read the other day the average price of a seat at the Super Bowl is $3,000. Oh, yeah, now that’s a price the average American can afford. But hey, we can watch it on TV instead, right? Yeah, as long as you don’t mind having to suffer through those ads, at $2.7 million for each thirty seconds worth. It’s not the advertisers who pay for that, it’s you, when the advertisers pass on those costs to you by tacking them on to the price of their goods.
Bollocks the Super Bowl.
FairyDogMother: “I dont care what drug using dog killer gets the ball downfield first.
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Football is as appealing as religion.”
Thanks for that!
Celebrant Prince, what’s wrong with commercial*sm?
And why the hell is Cial*s banned? I would much rather spell the word for a television advertisement with an I…
Sooo, a Superbowl is somewhere that people get together and play religion? Don’t christians do that like every Sundayor something?
That’s rediculous. Football is nothing like religion. Religion is separationist and employs circular logic.
Football, on the other hand, is for everyone, and those that don’t like football are evil, because football is love, and therefore without football there can be no love. No football, no love. Know football, know love.
Those who love football need to educate those few, insignificant and lost people to the wonders of football. If the un-fans can’t be educated and learn to love Football, they simply are without love and must be avoided.
Football is the perfect sport — you can read the proof yourself in the Football handbook (there are many versions of the Football Handbook, but they are all 100% correct).
You see– completely different.
And you don’t need to set your alarm clock on Sunday.
If I knew what time Sunday football started, I could make a better joke about late Saturday night parties and still needing to set the alarm clock for football.
I went to a live football game once, back in the ’60s. Didn’t seem like it was worth the $10 or so. Couldn’t ever tell who had the ball until the play was over and the umpire picked it up.
I had a lot of fun reading Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin last night. Maybe I’ll go through it a second time instead of watching the game. It’s about evolution.
The christians are required to participate in religious wars and fights. However, if Superbowl is different, the superbowlers wouldn’t be required to do that correct, or not?
Now, these em, footballs (sounds rather uncomfortable), is that some kind of disfigurement that superbowlers have?
Are Dave and I the only atheists who like football?
Rusty
I like it. I’m just a disgruntled Steeler fan. Go Giants! (Sorry Dave.)
Ravens is back to some reap next season. We has more drug dealers and murderers then any other team, we have to win.
Spinfusor: note that I said “crass commercial*sm”. There’s nothing wrong with hanging your signpost outside your shop advertising what you do. There’s nothing wrong with promoting your product. But doing it in a crass way, even though humorous, just turns me off. And most of the Super Bowl commercials are crass. In fact, the vast majority of television advertisements are crass, period, in my opinion. In fact, it was the commercials that made me turn off my television forever. I only use my TV to watch DVD’s now.
Switching topics, it sometimes dumbfounds me how this blog, a supposedly progressive, free-thinking blog, has this automatic blocking feature that prohibits certain words, like “cial*s” (a commercial drug), even when it’s only a string within an otherwise totally innocuous word. I’ve asked Dave to address this before on more than one occasion, but so far I haven’t seen any response from him on this issue. I’d understand if the system blocked the word when it was stand-alone, but all the system can do is search for the string, apparently. It needs to be improved so I don’t have to go looking for my unintentional infraction and then correct it by inserting a stupid asterisk.
Wow…I hope Tom Petty isn’t a republican…”loves Jesus” and “America Too”…and during the Super Bowl…!!!
Dave and Ellen will have to mofidfy the myth…
phreedm
do you believe bible is literal word or inspired and why?
what do you get out of church?
why can’t someone get the same thing out of islam,humanisn,communisn, etc.
Ahem…
BEST…
SUPER BOWL…
EVER!!!!
You need to take your message to Arizona and tell all of the Cardinals fans out there about this.
hey phreedum,it is the “good girl” who loves jesus,and i think tom was making fun of her.they probably dont play much Tom Petty on your radio,do they? speaking of which,anybody remember Stryper?
reason…
phreedm@yahoo.com
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080204/od_afp/britainpeoplehistoryoffbeat
Wow…and in only 60 years…
Imagine how distorted one’s view of history becomes after 2000 years…
oh,and she may have loved jesus,but she was CRAZY about Elvis.
False god. Like all the rest. I guess 18-1 is a pretty interesting season.
Nearly a quarter of Americans think Darwin was a myth, and a majority reckons that Jesus was real…. Americans are the ones losing their grip on reality
Oh, troll! Sorry about that Dave. Way to go New York!
flash…
Hmmm…I believe you’ve missed my point.
that,or i really didnt give a damn…
I quit watching the game because there was something wrong with the cable (or Fox-it was only that channel). The picture would just freeze up for long periods of time. I gave up when Tom Petty was exiting the stage after performing and the image of him froze on my screen for 15 minutes. I switched to another channel till 10:00. Got to see the very end. YAY.
I was really irritated when the frozen screen problem continued throughout House.
Did anybody else experience this? My son talked to someone in Chapel HIll , who said the TV coverage was OK there. Must have been the Suddenlink connection.
What was the first professional football team?
Or was it half of a team? Did the first pro football team serve some other purpose before it mutated into that particular team?
Is there any answers regarding the evolution of professional football in the football handbook Dave?
Sorry, Dave. C’mon over ‘n have a beer with me. It’ll make ya feel better.
I must apologize to the Cardinals for my irrational belief that they were the worst team. I was way off (8w,8l)! It’s actually Miami (1w,15l).
http://www.atheists.org/nogodblog/index.php/2008/02/02/superbowl_will_answer_religion_question
It’s difficult to understand but there is some sort of evolution going on. There is someone who is a quarter of the way back, others that are half the way back and, some that are fully all the way back. It is rather odd but, every few minutes they all run out of their pre-assigned positions. A line backer gets them all back in their proper sequence. The position names have evolved over time to dispense with the redundant words and are now known to be quarterback, halfback, fullback and linebacker, respectively.
This is completely different from the christian religion as their god-idea has turtlebacks going all the way down.
Of course the Dolphins beat the Ravens, which in turn beat the Cardinals, which is really a chain reaction of sucking!
thank goodness it was not one of those boring blowout games.
ESPN just showed an interview with Giants receiver Tyree (the one who had that amazing catch).
He said- and I paraphrase- that after he watched the catch on TV, that it didn’t make sense that he was able to make the catch. Then he said that anything that doesn’t make sense, he attributes to gawd.
Got a good laugh out of that.
Yep, that gawd crap doesn’t make sense to me either!
I guess gawd hates the Patriots, seeing as how she wouldn’t let them win.
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Superbowl_20Stadium_20Selection_20Method
godjeeringatheist.wordpress.com
Belief in God is funny to me in any setting, but I really crack up when entertainers and professional athletes thank God (or Jesus) for their latest achievement or award. Of course, these proclamations have nothing whatsoever to do with even their God. It is all about the self-indulgent celebrities themselves. What they are really saying is, “Look at me, God knows all about me, loves me and made sure I got this award.” Such ego can you believe it? This becomes even more ridiculous when an athlete does something like genuflecting before a free throw; could anything be less important?
If they were truly believers in their God, their acceptance speech might be, “God, enough already! I already have a $100 million contract, adoring fans and eight bookcases full of awards. Please, please can’t you use your powers to something better like feeding starving children.” Not likely to see this speech anytime soon.
As an atheist, the hilarious acceptance speech at the Emmy Awards several months ago by Kathy Griffin was right on point. Not only did she mock celebrities that thank Jesus, but also stated her own belief of his role in her receiving of the award.
No mainstream groups ever complain about the God thanking speeches that go on ad nauseam, but predictably there was an overreaction to Griffin’s speech. Outrage, threats and calls for censorship all followed her speech. This was different only in degree to the reaction to some Danish cartoons. When blind faith is challenged this is the usual reaction.
A more logical and meaningful response, if they wanted to issue a challenge, would have been to provide proof that Jesus had indeed helped Griffin. Don’t often see this more reason based approach used, however. Or maybe just a chuckle would have been appropriate. It does seem, however, that blind faith believers have no sense of humor.
Why do they have to do this sh*t? Why can’t they just leave people alone?
Anyway-
Way to go Andy! Now, how about saying it on the teevee?
oops, forgot the link:
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27323