Air Force Coach to Remove Christian Banner ("Team Jesus Christ") [View All]

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. -- The Air Force Academy's longtime football coach has agreed to remove a Christian banner from the team's locker room after school administrators announced they would do more to fight religious intolerance.

Coach Fisher DeBerry agreed Friday to remove the banner, which displayed the "Competitor's Creed," including the lines "I am a Christian first and last ... I am a member of Team Jesus Christ."

DeBerry put the banner up Wednesday to encourage the team, which has experienced one of its worst seasons in recent years, academy spokesman Lt. Col. Laurent Fox said.

A day earlier, academy Superintendent Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa announced the school would do more religious tolerance training after some nonreligious cadets reported on a survey that they felt ostracized. Others reported hearing religious slurs or jokes.


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Is it just me or did I happen to miss out on the part in the Bible that Jesus gives the Competitor's Creed and offers his worshipers the ability to kick ass on the playing field if only they believe in him?

I HATE it when sports mixes religion into the festivities.

"You guys would have won, if you'd only prayed beforehand."

"But we DID!"

"Well, then you didn't pray hard enough."

"We prayed on our knees for 6 hours every day for the past week!"

"Well, then I guess Jesus just doesn't like you. Either that or you have a dirty liberal atheist on your team."