Sorry, churches, the party's over...

NFL ban forces nationwide cancellations of Super Bowl events


By Robert King

At Indian Creek Christian Church on the Southeastside, church leaders yanked up banners that had been beckoning people to come to Sunday's "Super Bowl XLI Party."


At Seymour's Cornerstone Ministry Center, church leaders began looking for something to do with the food they had planned to serve to football fans Sunday night.
And at Green Valley Church of Christ in Noblesville, the church decided it would rather cancel its Super Bowl party than run the risk of running afoul of the NFL.


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damn them fundies anyway wanting to have a fun time on superbowl sunday...

donations in for the food closets. They're running low this time of year after the holidays. BUT I guess we're safe since we're not WATCHING the game there. Although I'm sure someone in the congregation will put one of the teams on the prayer list ;)

BTW, not everyone who goes to church is a fundy.

I am a christian myself. I WAS a fundie for a lot of years, man was I out in left field :)

And hell, I don't care if someone is a fundie - as long as they don't pass laws based on that.

Fundies have done a lot for a lot of people, but it is still fun to poke fun at em once in awhile ;)

You can't have a bowl party with a screen bigger the 55 inches? That's just stupid, if your not paying for admittance than why bitch?

They're making money by selling food, etc.

they want people to stay home and watch to boost ratings.

its obvious that they are heavily watched and advertisers compete for commercial space so who gives a crap about ratings? Its always going to be prime real estate.

Most of us are not, and what we watch doesn't really matter. These people will still watch the stupid commercials whether they're at home, at church or in a bar.
The NFL is full of shit.

And feed some poor people. That would be the Christian thing to do.

Christ was a Liberal hippie type who cared about the lazy lower class. Heaven forbid the fundies's emulate anything Liberal.

By all means Rev, we need to exempt churches from following the law of the land. You know, like taxes and gays and stuff like that. Its the Christian thing to do. And besides, you're "special."
:sarcasm:

Next thing you know they'll be reduced to sermons and homilies. And where's the fun in that?!?!?!

}( AMAN!

Problem solved?

the IRS cracking down on churches who preach about who to vote for and why. :shrug: Maybe that'll be the NEXT, "the party's over" for them but somehow, I doubt it. I guess the NFL has more power than the IRS. Who'da thunk it?

Said on Dan Patrick's radio show that he sides with the churches on this one...which means he'll probably have to turn in the secular-progressive membership card people like Bill O'Reilly keep trying to give him.

schadenfreude over this.:evilgrin:

I think this whole thing is stupid. It was stupid when the NFL started going after people for merely using the phrase "Super Bowl" without its approval. We all know what the damned thing is called. It's part of the common vernacular now. Instead, places are forced to wink and say "Big Game."

I wasn't aware of the TV-size restriction. What if you have a giant-ass TV in your own private house? Is the NFL going to send Ray Lewis to your house?

but when he was young, single, and living in Dallas, there was nothing else to do on Sunday. So he loaded up on snacks and settled down to watch the game, turned on the set--and found the football players had gone on strike! He took it as a sign, and gratefully realized he never had to watch a game again.

I never watch football either.

with our "Souper Bowl" efforts to collect money for the hungry Sunday morning.

I'm not at all sure what watching the actual game has to do with religion, after all. (Ok, my rector is a HUGE football fan, but still!)

Long standing tradition, my fanny. This is something that has just come up in the last decade or two, probably only since the development of megachurches. Growing up in a very liturgical church, I recall my horror the first time I read about a church that was going to have a big Super Bowl event instead of its usual Sunday evening worship. And it wasn't just going to be a party to watch the game, there was still going to be some preaching and singing. Intertwined with the Super Bowl.

:wtf:

I don't know what marketing agency was behind this push to make people think of Super Bowl Sunday as another national holiday, full of wholesome family fun, but it's been very successful.

So, what is the NFL going to to Monday? Send out the 55" police? Storm down doors to see what size TV you have and how many people are there watching? Fine you for having crappy guacamole dip too?

Does ANYONE think a judge will issue a search warrant to allow a single NFL rep or member of any police department to do any of the above?

Nope...this is smoke blowing out their ass and dissipating over the trees...unseen.

Which begs the question...if smoke blows out of your ass in the woods and there is no one there to see it.....

Hmm, didn't the Pope say that Sunday should be held as holy and no sporting events be held on the Sabbath?

Keep people from watching your product. That's the way to continued success. :eyes:

My question is, how is this different from people gathering at sports bars for the game?