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Related: About this forumAaron Rodgers Trolls Russell Wilson After Victory
The man upstairs didn't play during the Green Bay Packers' 27-17 win over the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday night, but didn't stop the team's quietly Christian quarterback from taking a subtle God-related shot at the openly Christian quarterback on the other side.
After throwing two touchdowns against the Seahawks at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers credited God in his postgame press conference. "I think God was a Packer fan tonight," he told reporters.
Chalking the results of sports games up to faith is a common practice for religious athletes -- something that Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson did after beating Rodgers' Packers in last season's NFC Championship game in January.
Thats God setting it up, to make it so dramatic, so rewarding, so special," Wilson told reporters after snatching a Super Bowl trip away from the Packers.
Two days after that game, Rodgers, a Christian man himself, disagreed with Wilson's belief that God had intervened to set up an NFC Championship victory. ...................(more)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aaron-rodgers-russell-wilson-god_55fff243e4b08820d9193563
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Aaron Rodgers Trolls Russell Wilson After Victory (Original Post)
marmar
Sep 2015
OP
God spends all his time helping athletes, telling republicans what to do, and forgiving
Elwood P Dowd
Sep 2015
#2
pscot
(21,024 posts)1. Spiritual advice from jocks is always welcome
Not.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)2. God spends all his time helping athletes, telling republicans what to do, and forgiving
republicans for their sexual picadillos.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)3. Can't you just picture God standing on a cloud
with His foam cheesehead?
a kennedy
(29,647 posts)4. Yes, yes I can.....
and she looks d*mn smashing in it also.... GO PACK GO.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)5. Baby Rodgers, whose name escapes me (Jason?) defended Wilson...
Not a surprise...he was always on Faux with that asshat Catholic priest whining about religious liberty...seems he headed the local Catholic Athlete for Christ...that name escapes me too...and since they wouldn't allow teh gays, Vandy wouldn't give them meeting space on campus and poor Baby Rodgers was being discriminated against.