Wash Post has a 5 page Gibbs Article

Two things. One, God cant afford tickets to Fed EX field, and even if he could hes got a 20 year wait to get the seats he wants...

Second, didnt you know that whatever player prays the most gets what he wants. How else would God decide. Like in baseball, the batter is praying for a hit and the pitcher for a strikeout. Both praying ot the same God, so whos he going to chose?

On a more serious note, whatever Joe Gibbs does to bring our team together and pump up morale is ok by me. Im sure not all of the players share his faith but all are willing to have team spirit(no pun intended).

I'm happy that people find comfort in whatever they choose, however I'd like to see a seperation of Church and Sports.

As Matt mentioned, a deity should have more pressing issues than a points spread or a sack total. Now if I were God.......

Do you guys remember Kurt Warner's magical year with the Rams when he stepped in for Trent Green. All the story lines were about him being a God-fearing, Arena playing, former stock boy turned NFL QB. It was interesting to hear other teams' reaction to the media coverage of Warner. Their biggest complaint was that it gave the impression that God was on Warner's side but more importantly against everyone else.

All this rambling is just to say I agree with Rat, it's one thing to find comfort in your beliefs but to imply there are favorites and that God is adamantly entrenched in helping certain teams above others seems a bit much

“God bless America and no one else.”

Amen.

I really don't see how this article promotes the idea that God favors any particular team simply because a coach or a player happens to be very religious or evangelical.

It seems the idea behind this article was simply to explore a side of Joe Gibbs that maybe some Redskins fans weren't aware of. Gibbs is an immortal figure in Washington because of his legendary history with the Redskins, but many fans know very little about Joe Gibbs the person. So it makes sense that the media would want to shed a little more light on what is clearly a huge aspect of Joe Gibbs' personality and life beyond football.

It's also no coincidence that the article was published Easter weekend. Many readers are obviously in a spiritual or religious mood at this time of year, so the media's human interest stories are certainly going to take a more ethereal tone. What more appropriate subject to write about for the Easter Weekend editions of Washington's most visible newspaper than the Christian journey of one of Washington's most celebrated figures?

I don't think the writer of this article nor Joe Gibbs himself would ever make the assertion that simply being a devout Christian (or being "more Christian" than others) makes one successful in and of itself, or makes one more deserving of reward. As much as he is known for his devotion to Christianity, Joe Gibbs is defined by the genuine humility he exhibits in all that he says and he does. Such humility always speaks to the high esteem in which he holds his peers, and above all else, the sense that he will always have to work that much harder to make himself worthy of competing on their level.

Joe Gibbs' Christian principles do not operate on the assumption that he is good-- they are predicated on the idea that he is not good enough.

And that's why he's better than most.

Joe, you just blew my mind.

~claps at joecrisp


Hey, in Texas they say they have the stadium open so God can watch....THAT CAN'T BE TRUE!

God loves us...and all our silly sports teams.

I wonder if it's a conflict of interest that Gibbs is a christian and Snyder is clearly the spawn of satan?

Bwhahahaha!

You know people cus that guy but as limited as my football team owning abilities are if I had $800,000,000.00 I would have bought the Team and maybe had us all in the same problem. In fact if I had enough to buy it from him today I would.

peace

Id rather have an owner that throws out the money and tries to get us the players then one who just cuts players and wont pay to get players. Granted, they havent always worked out, the coachs havent worked out, but hes atelast trying to get us what we need. Most teams in the league cant get their owners to buy the talent they need. Jerry Jones did the same thing and won a bunch of Super Bowls

Excellent post Joe. I can't say I've ever seen it put any better than that.

The Bible doesn't say anything about which football team God roots for, but it does say that He opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble.

:)

--Phin