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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[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.