The Deity is My Offensive Coordinator

BrooklynDodger always feared the Deity was a Yankee and Dallas Cowboy fan. How else could you explain their domination? As with intelligent design, the questions is whether the Deity set a machine in motion - hiring a good general manager, buying Babe Ruth's contract - or whether the Deity intervenes on a season by season, game by game or even play by play basis.

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Increasingly, Football's Playbooks Call for Prayer

By JOE DRAPE

Published: October 30, 2005

Every preseason for 30 years, Coach Bobby Bowden has taken his Florida State football players to a church in a white community and a church in a black community in the Tallahassee area in an effort, he said, to build camaraderie. He writes to their parents in advance, explaining that the trips are voluntary, and that if they object, their sons can stay home without fear of retaliation. He remembers only one or two players ever skipping the outing.

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