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+ Stephen Altrogge has written a book called “Game Day for the Glory of God: A Guide for Athletes, Fans, and Wannabees”. You can hear a short interview with Altrogge, conducted by pastor CJ Mahaney, here. (h/t: Sovereign Grace Blog)
+ New England Patriots’ cornerback Ellis Hobbs wonders if fans are taking Sunday’s loss a little too hard (h/t: Deadspin):
“It doesn’t hurt,” Hobbs said. “It amazes me how people react. You would think that this organization hasn’t won as much as they have and been successful in the years that they have, and it’s a testament to how spoiled they are where expectations are that high that we’re not allowed a bad game. How many times has somebody had a bad day at the office? How many times has somebody missed a deadline and not gotten in the paper? Missing whatever, forgetting to fix their kids’ lunch?
“Even the kids . . they’ve got the kids out there, where I’m hearing they’re even crying over this and that’s a direct relationship from the parents down. Is it that bad? You’ve got people dying every day. This is a sport. And you’ve got kids out there crying over a loss in the regular season? It makes me look at it like, ‘Am I supposed to be crying?’ ”
+ Two-stepping Washington Redskin Jason Taylor suffered a freak injury on Sunday that could have resulted in nerve damage, tissue necropsy, and possibly even death. Sounds pleasant, no? The injury had to do with a blood mass in his left calf that required emergency surgery on Monday morning. Taylor originally planned on letting God do the healing work, until he was told that the surgery needed to be done ASAP (h/t: Mr. Irrelevant).
“I still was a hard head,” Taylor said. “Sometimes the things that make you good could be your demise, too. I was a hard head. I didn’t want to do it. I wanted to wait. I wanted to let God try to heal it up some. Sometimes, I guess you’ve got to help Him out.
“It needed to be done immediately. I wanted to wait a couple of hours. They said, ‘You don’t have a couple of hours. We should have did it an hour ago.’ It was one of those things where time’s of the essence and we need to hurry up and do this right away.”
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