Religion in Sports


I do not know why but in Spanish today I was bored and i randomly thought about how i could write a great article on religion in sports. Well, with the explanation out of the way here it goes! I think religion will always be associated with sports. In Sports you constantly hear things about religion.  In Sports people constantly say Football's a religion in this town!".  I do not know if this only me or other people have it but i take pride in the Jewish athletes and their success. Ryan Braun is one of my favorite players in the MLB for the sole reason he's Jewish. When he was proven not guilty of taking steroids i was really happy because that was a successful Jewish athlete that  "beat the system". Forgive the non politically correctness of that statement. Tim Tebow is by far the most famous athlete to be very religious.  He is pictured above praying before a game, better known as "Tebowing". One famous religious line that was spun for sports purposes was the line in the beginning of the Torah/Bible "In the beginning". That line was changed to "In the Big Inning". That was refferenced twice that i have seen in pop culture, "The Yankles" and "Jews and Baseball: A True American Love Story". That is the only times i have ever seen a religious line twisted in pop culture.   I think Sports need religion and Religion needs sports. Religion will always be part of sports.