We’ve become so accustomed to hearing the winning team thank God for their success that this post-game interview is a little unsettling. The star player never mentions the deity of choice…Not once. Oddly, the losing side doesn’t mention Him either – but this is the usual protocol. The dejected team just mumbles that it was a really good game, or ‘it just wasn’t there for us.’ No blaming of God for not listening, or for helping the other guys, when they had fervently prayed for God’s guidance and strength to win!
This player has never thrown a Hail Mary pass, and just when you expect him to thank his maker, he thanks his parents – for his superior genetics. He hilariously has a lot to be thankful for, and people to be thankful to – including the ‘miracle’ of evolution!
Just as in the old movies, no crime or immoral act goes unpunished. Maybe the atheist player should have thrown a token thanks to God. As it turns out, post-game talk which pointedly leaves out the ‘other’ man upstairs is rewarded by God’s bug-zapper of wrath!