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.

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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.