Posted on 02/05/2010 8:31:22 AM PST by ezfindit
Doug Flutie, one of the most inspirational players in college football history, and Curt Schilling, a great Red Sox pitcher who won a World Series for his team, both supported Scott Brown for the Senate. There is no reason to doubt that these popular, respected men helped bring attention and support to the Brown campaign.
Tim Tebow is appearing in an ad during the Super Bowl which has a profoundly life-affirming statement — the sort of personal arguments against abortion which it is impossible to contradict. Other college football superstars have made the same sort of appeal. Colt McCoy and Sam Bradford, superstar quarterbacks during the week before the huge O.U.-Texas game, co-produced a video titled “I am second,” which makes it clear to all their fans that God, and not sports, is the center of their lives. Kurt Warner, whose inspirational life as a pro quarterback is the stuff of legends, would give all his laurels without a second thought to the God who made his wonderful life possible.
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Ted Williams was also a Republican (saw him at a Bush rally in Houston on the eve of the 1992 election).
My opinion of Colt McCoy as a person went way up after the BCS Championship game. You know that to play at that level, he had to work very very hard to maximize his God-given gifts. But during his career he was three times a bridesmaid at the Heisman Trophy presentation. He finally had the chance to get the ultimate award for college football in the BCS Championship game, and he is injured and out of the game in the first series. His team loses, in large part because he’s out of action.
What does McCoy say after the game? He gives thanks and glory to God for all of the incredible gifts He has given. McCoy says that no matter what, God is the solid foundation of his life. Wow. Just wow. He just made me a fan.
Thanks for posting... that’s a great article.
I agree that sports is one area that has avoided much of the “politically correct” crappola that so much of society has submitted to. Unfortunately, even in sports, you see it creeping in.
Going way back to the late 1960’s, when I was playing college football at a respected university, I saw some of the first of that politically correct pressure being applied to our program. Our head coach, who had a great and esteemed (legendary) career, got pressured to retire early because some of the black players on our team felt they had been denied opportunities and playing time and got these charges promoted in a major east coast newspaper — it was an outrageously false claim, but how does one protest that once the charge has been made and published in a leading newspaper?
It’s been downhill ever since, even in the sports arena that has offered so many minorities such wonderful opportunities.
Perhaps you have heard of David Robinson, retired San Antonio Spur and devout Christian? He and Max Lucado minister together. I know him and he is the real deal.
But, my concept of ‘winner’ may be very different. I believe in team players, not glory hounds.
The truth is that celebrities nowadays come from two areas - entertainment (music, tv, movies) and sports. Entertainment is dominated by liberals and, in many ways, your career doesn’t reach the public without the approval of liberal gatekeepers.
Sports, OTOH, doesn’t ask someone’s politics before promoting them. So conservatives and Christians pass through the filter of the gatekeepers before they have the chance to degrade and minimize them.
That’s why conservatism seems to come through the sports world and rarely the entertainment world (the conservatives in entertainment normally mask their politics until they’ve “made it” and then come out and surprise the gatekeepers with their political views - often risking their future earning power in the process).
That’s why conservatism seems to come through the sports world and rarely the entertainment world (the conservatives in entertainment normally mask their politics until they’ve “made it” and then come out and surprise the gatekeepers with their political views - often risking their future earning power in the process).
Excellent point! Very true!!!
In sports like in life, you get out what you put in. You have your ups and downs and have to still carry on. The ones that are able to do that excel. That is why there are so many great life lessons in sports.
I think athletes are mostly conservative because they could not have reached their levels of play without hard work, determination and the will to succeed inspite of things out of their control, say injuries. They get back up when they are knocked down and do it again and again.
Isn’t that what conservatives basically believe of themselves whether they are athletes or not?
What is in just about every locker room.....NO EXCUSES!!!
Nice article, but unless he has done a recent about-face, Flutie is nowhere near being a conservative. In fact, the last I saw of him prior to the Brown-Coakley race was when he was shilling for hitlery....
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