What is your opinion on players huddling after games to pray?

[daggerkobe]

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[pimike]

Outstanding Idea. They can't make church services. They thank God Almighty for what he has done and for keeping them safe. I love it.

I always make sure my son sees that part.



PERFECT THING TO DO KOBY

[SlickFazzer]

I don't mind it.

As with any religious beliefs, I could care less what anyone thinks or does...I just don't want to hear them tell me about it.

[bmw530i]

Dagger I was at a indoor basketball gym...and a bunch of really good indian kids were playing in a pick up game. Right before we were about to play, there game ended and they all went to the far right corner....all of em and stood toward the wall and knelt down and started to pray....right there
everyone was freaked out..

[WileOut]

[Robyn]

I think it is great that people express their religious beliefs, just as long as it isn't harming anyone and they aren't shoving it in my face.

[dle]

I'm agnostic and rather anti-religion, but I have no problem with people doing what they want to do. I naturally think praying is peculiar because of my own thoughts, but my opinion on others doesn't usually get in the way of that.

[donjuan]

I don't mind it.

As with any religious beliefs, I could care less what anyone thinks or does...I just don't want to hear them tell me about it.

End of thread.

[The_Kid]

I think it's good. Brings the team together despite what everyone believes. One team, one heartbeat.

[wtf]

[jackpot269]

[jackpot269]

Dagger I was at a indoor basketball gym...and a bunch of really good indian kids were playing in a pick up game. Right before we were about to play, there game ended and they all went to the far right corner....all of em and stood toward the wall and knelt down and started to pray....right there
everyone was freaked out..

Nice avatar bmw!! very nice

[jackpot269]

I think it is great that people express their religious beliefs, just as long as it isn't harming anyone and they aren't shoving it in my face.

Robyn I cant see you just a blank spot were did you go !!!!!!!!!!!

[jjgold]

It is so phony, most of those guys in the huddle are so inmoral it is unreal.

Just an act

[SlickFazzer]

Many come from broken homes, where crime, drugs, and mischievous sex is commonplace.

[Shark79]

Its simply being thankful for what the achieve and what they have.

OUTSTANDING !!

[SexyMit]

[jtuck]

I hated it when the teams I was on in high school did it but as long as the players genuinely believe in praying then no one should have a problem with it

[nosniboR11]

It is so phony, most of those guys in the huddle are so inmoral it is unreal.

Just an act

JJ you sir are really a weird character. I am not sure what to think about you.

[fiveteamer]

Nothing like having a nice prayer session after a game of trying to rip another guy's head off, then going home, shooting some steroids in your ass, beating up your wife/gf and then doing lines.

Yeah, Jesus saves.

[Bread]

Prayer worked great for Hammer! Nothing bad ever happened to him! Oh wait...

[curious]

or or

So, let me make sure I understand the premise of this. The creator of the universe interrupted her day (I'm guessing she was kind of busy), to come down to the planet Earth and make sure that one football team was better at smashing, pounding, hitting, and tearing up other humans than the other team, even though the other team was praying too, so she had to pick which side prayed better or something.

And now, since the creator of the universe blessed this team with ensuring that they won, they are now praying to thank her for making them commit violent acts on their fellow humans better than the other team?

Is that the premise?

[losturmarbles]

well you can always count on curious to be a fckin troll.

as for praying, to each his own. indifferent on the subject.

[pavyracer]

What I don't understand is NASCAR prayers before the race. We are basically asking God for too much when we give 43 guys 1000 hp and 200 mph 2 ton machines with the whole purpose of driving in 300 circles around a concrete wall trying to knock out each other out of the race. I think God has more important things to attend, like helping the sick or hungry, than making sure noone dies in a crash.

[curious]

well you can always count on curious to be a fckin troll.

as for praying, to each his own. indifferent on the subject.

Are you saying that I have misunderstood the logic of this thesis?
1. Football is violence.
2. The creator of the universe is supposed to be the epitome of love.
3. A football team praying that they can inflict violence better on their opponent to the creator of the universe (who is the epitome of love) is illogical.
4. Praying to thank the creator of the universe (who is pure love) for helping them to inflict violence better on their opponent is illogical.

Have I missed something?

[Willie Bee]

Got to wonder what the NFL would do, as well as the media, if a few players pulled out their mats and bowed down facing Mecca to pray to Allah?

[pavyracer]

Got to wonder what the NFL would do, as well as the media, if a few players pulled out their mats and bowed down facing Mecca to pray to Allah?

Isn't this what the Pakistani national cricket team do before the games? Thank God we don't have cricket in the US.

Willie will the Muslims in the US face east or west since Mecca is about the same distance from either direction if you are in the West Coast.

[betplom]

End of thread.

I think not.

Isn't this what the Pakistani national cricket team do before the games? Thank God we don't have cricket in the US.

Willie will the Muslims in the US face east or west since Mecca is about the same distance from either direction if you are in the West Coast.

Towards Mecca, but on a round world that can be East or West.

[flyingillini]

I could care less what they do.