Three weeks ago, if you’d ask this casual observer of the NFL if it would be cool for the Arizona Cardinals to make the Super Bowl, I’d have said, “sure, why not, good for them”. But then I remembered: Kurt Warner is their quarterback now.
As I sit here watching the last ditch effort by the Eagles to stay alive, I’m rooting for them…and I don’t even care for them. Why? Because Kurt Warner, never one to disappoint where “THIS” is concerned, has made me gag in my mouth every time I turn on Sports Center since the NFL Playoffs started. Because Kurt Warner can’t shut his religious mouth about his faith and about how it’s “god’s” plan and about how he simply turns over his life to his “god” and let’s whatever happen happen and about how if it’s “god’s” will, the Cardinals will win.
Hey, Kurt: Shut up. Keep it private. Don’t wanna hear it. No, I take that back, here’s what I DO want to hear, but never will: I want to hear (oh, btw, now it appears the Cards will win and go to the Super Bowl) Warner, right after having a five-interception meltdown that he is known to have on occasion, look right into the camera and say “it was ‘god’s’ will that I sucked today and screwed my team out of a win.”
When I hear THAT, then he can rant all he wants to about his faith. Until then, keep it to yourself. Sheesh. And stop with the cop-out about “I just turn it over to ‘god’s’ will”. “god doesn’t give a rat’s ass who wins a football game on a Sunday. So buck up and take some responsibility…bad OR good.
Oh, and this goes for you, too, Colt McCoy and Tim Tebow. Stop it. You win football games because you are gifted frickin’ athletes who’ve had the best coaching and training since junior high on up and you have turned that talent into results with a bit of competitive desire. Period.
6 responses so far ↓
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ollie
// Jan 18, 2009 at 6:19 pm
BJ, you are out of line here. Obviously, “God” favors outstanding athletes.
Now if *I* were to win a contested athletic event, it would be due to divine intervention.
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Football: Conference Championship Sunday « blueollie
// Jan 18, 2009 at 6:47 pm
[...] Aside: BJ has some opinions on those athletes who ascribe their success to the intervention of a deity. [...]
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postsimian
// Jan 19, 2009 at 11:39 am
In times where I don’t have any particular attachment to either team, I use outside criteria in making my decision: I was rooting for the Eagles. Pennsylvania voted Obama, Arizona did not. Besides that, the Cardinals’ coach is a real douche-hose.
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Grandpa
// Jan 23, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Subject: Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the cashier
In a supermarket, Kurtis the stock boy was busily working when a new voice came over the loud speaker asking for a carry out at register 4.
Kurtis was almost finished, and wanted to get some fresh air, and decided to answer the call. As he approached the checkout stand a distant smile caught his eye, the new checkout girl was beautiful. She was an older woman (maybe 26, and he was only 22) and he fell in love.
Later that day, after his shift was over, he waited by the punch clock to find out her name. She came into the break room, smiled softly at him, took her card and punched out, then left. He looked at her card, BRENDA.
He walked out only to see her start walking up the road. Next day, he waited outside as she left the supermarket, and offered her a ride home. He looked harmless enough, and she accepted. When he dropped her off, he asked if maybe he could see her again, outside of work. She simply said it wasn’t possible. He pressed and she explained she had two children and she couldn’t afford a baby-sitter, so he offered to pay for the baby-sitter. Reluctantly she accepted his offer for a date for the following Saturday.
That Saturday night he arrived at her door only to have her tell him that she was unable to go with him. The baby-sitter had called and canceled. To which Kurtis simply said, “Well, let’s take the kids with us.”
She tried to explain that taking the children was not an option, but again not taking no for an answer, he pressed.
Finally, Brenda brought him inside to meet her children. She had an older daughter who was just as cute as a bug, Kurtis thought, and then Brenda brought out her son, in a wheelchair. He was born a paraplegic with Down Syndrome. Kurtis asked Brenda, “I still don’t understand why the kids can’t come with us?”
Brenda was amazed. Most men would run away from a woman with two kids, especially if one had disabilities – just like her first husband and father of her children had done. Kurtis was not ordinary – - – he had a different mindset. That evening Kurtis and Brenda loaded up the kids went to dinner and the movies. When her son needed anything Kurtis would take care of him. When he needed to use the restroom, he picked him up out of his wheelchair, took him and brought him back. The kids loved Kurtis. At the end of the evening, Brenda knew this was the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life with. A year later, they were married and Kurtis adopted both of her children. Since then they have added two more kids.
So what happened to Kurtis the stock boy and Brenda the checkout girl? Well, Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Warner now live in Arizona, where he is currently employed as the quarterback of the National Football League Arizona Cardinals and has his Cardinals in the hunt for a possible appearance in the Super Bowl. Is this a surprise ending or could you have guessed that he was not an ordinary person.
It should be noted that he also quarterbacked the Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI. He has also been the NLF’s Most Valuable Player twice and the Super Bowl’s Most Valuable Player.
AND THE REST OF THE STORY:
Today at church our minister mentioned that when Kurt, his wife and children go out to eat he has one of his children pick out a family eating at the restaurant. Kurt then tells the wait staff he is picking up the tab for that family’s dinner anonymously. He remembers the days he was working nights in the grocery store and feeding his family on food stamps. The grocery store was the HyVee grocery store in Cedar Falls, Iowa near the University of Northern Iowa where Kurt was the starting quarter back only during his senior year of college. Now it is understood why Kurt believes in and credits God for his good fortunes.
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ollie
// Feb 1, 2009 at 9:21 pm
Let’s see: Warner gets to three Superbowls. His team twice loses in the last minute of play; is his god trying to tell him something?
Grandpa: which god is pulling the strings for Mr. Warner?
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bjstone
// Feb 9, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Kurtie boy got beat, I couldn’t be happier. Funny, though, I didn’t hear him give the “lord” the credit for the 100 yard interception return or the last-play fumble. Why is that?
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