Go team

[icebluenothing]

.... So I gather there's some sort of football game going on today.

Actually, I remember seeing something about that the other day -- specifically, a readerboard outside a business in Lake City that reads, "GOD BLESS OUR SEAHAWKS."

Take a moment, if you would, to marvel with me: the owners of this business have decided to use their readerboard, a business asset intended for advertising -- no, wait, strike that, they've decided to use the very gift of literacy itself --

-- to plead with their invisible superhero in the sky to intercede on the behalf of their tribe in ritual combat.

This planet frightens and confuses me and I'd like to go home now.

Comments

[kespernorth.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is that it actually sounds more appealing to me when you put it like that.

[vorona.livejournal.com]

Heheh. It does sound better when you put it that way.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

People in my neighborhood apparently think that guns are intended for celebrating the outcome of this ritual combat.

:|

[capnexposition.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I think that's a pretty traditional use both of language and gods in general. Sounds like these folks were honoring one of mankind's oldest traditions: praying to the forces they believe control their lives for a leg up on the other guy, so he doesn't come carry off their women and mock the size of their genitals. Ahhh, the good old days.

[saffyre-dragon.livejournal.com]

During the holidays there was a sign in Edmonds saying, "Love and honor god order pies and rolls."

Each time I drove by it made me giggle.

[speedie316.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was at Ezell's. Ah, the subtlety. What makes it better, is that Ezell's is actually technically in Lynnwood (just over the border), and I happen to know something about how ridiculously strict Lynnwood signage laws are, making it even scarier that that's how they choose to use theirs.

[lokheed.livejournal.com]

Apparently it worked.

Purely in the interest of sheer pedantry

[ssandv.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to point out that for a wonder, the sign did not actually request intercession, merely blessing. Everyone can use some extra blessings now and again, no?

This contrasts with the "we owe this win to God" nonsense some athletes spout after games, as if the invisible superhero in question takes sides in sporting events--ones that tend to conflict with worship services for him, in point of fact, just to heighten the irony.