I think this is a perfect microcosm of the whole notion of god's involvement in sports. This is Richard Sherman's response to a reporter's question after the game:
Sherman:(on if he thought they were going to win after WR Jermaine Kearse's juggling catch in the fourth quarter) "I thought we had a chance, through God's grace. He always seems to be with us in these big games. We had to give all the things to the man upstairs. We had the chance to win this ball game. It was a heck of a play by Jermaine. But unfortunately, they made a play at the end and you've got to give them credit."
God is always with us in these big games, but we lost so give the other team credit. You heard it here first: Tom Brady kicked god's ass. The Seahawks were just collateral damage.
Sherman:(on if he thought they were going to win after WR Jermaine Kearse's juggling catch in the fourth quarter) "I thought we had a chance, through God's grace. He always seems to be with us in these big games. We had to give all the things to the man upstairs. We had the chance to win this ball game. It was a heck of a play by Jermaine. But unfortunately, they made a play at the end and you've got to give them credit."
God is always with us in these big games, but we lost so give the other team credit. You heard it here first: Tom Brady kicked god's ass. The Seahawks were just collateral damage.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
