Sunday will never be the same

[Jake from State Farm]

Vigneron: Sunday sports out of bounds for Catholic teams

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The Catholics allow that? Heck, the Baptists won't allow Sunday or Wednesday games around here.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Christ also was Jewish. Jews believe touching the skin of a dead pig is unholy. How do the Catholics reconcile this with football?

 

[Alma]

Vigneron: Sunday sports out of bounds for Catholic teams

Good for them, but it won't stop the non-CYO teams.

Youth sports has taken over our culture in the worst ways. It bleeds into everything - Sundays, holidays, every single day. And even briefly opting out - in favor of family time or, heaven forbid, a vacation - is seen as a lack of commitment.

It's commitment creep. Happens in work, too. I saw a tweet from recruiting reporter (of course) who was boasting that his colleague looks at a mere weekend as vacation. Like these are guys are all in Boiler Room or Glengarry Glen Ross or something, working 90 hours a week. If you're going to work 90, for God's sake, be a broker who makes a ****load of money at least.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

The Catholics allow that? Heck, the Baptists won't allow Sunday or Wednesday games around here.

The only prep calls we EVER got on Sunday were from Catholic schools
The Catholic League also staged football playoffs on Sundays

 

[Alma]

Christ also was Jewish. Jews believe touching the skin of a dead pig is unholy. How do the Catholics reconcile this with football?

Christ fulfilled the old law. It's the same reason why Christians don't have animal sacrifice. There's no need. Christians live by faith, not by law.

 

[CD Boogie]

Vigneron: Sunday sports out of bounds for Catholic teams

Know what's not out of bounds for Catholic teams? Nuns and altar boys.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

The Catholics allow that? Heck, the Baptists won't allow Sunday or Wednesday games around here.

... yet they have zero problem running home from church in time for kickoff for the NFL game ...

 

[HanSenSE]

I've never worked in a place that had Sunday preps. Lone exception was last fall's Central Coast Section cross country championships, which had to change location due to the Northstate fires.

 

[Scout]

... yet they have zero problem running home from church in time for kickoff for the NFL game ...

Professionals...

Huge difference.

 

[micropolitan guy]

The LDS kids on my son's club soccer teams never played on Sunday. Put us in a pinch sometimes because club soccer always plays on Sunday.

 

[Scout]

As I pass a packed little league on my way home from church every Sunday, I wonder how many of them are up for 8 am services? I also wonder how many of them fight same-sex marriages but have not been inside a church, outside of a holiday, in a decade?

 

[Starman]

For decades and decades, because of field access issues with Catholic schools who played at rented public school facilities, and/or issues with Catholic schools coaches/parents who didn't want to conflict with local college sports on Saturdays, Catholic sports on Sundays was routine. Absolutely routine.

The roots also date back to the European background (Italian-Irish -French-German-Polish) Of many Catholic families and the tradition of the Continental Sabbath, ie Sunday, as a day of recreation and enjoyment. (Including beer and wine!)


It was holy roller fundamentalist Protestants who went ape**** about keeping Sunday safe from such
profane pursuits.

This was a factor in blue laws that outlawed pro baseball and other sports activities in many cities on Sundays until the 1920s or 30s. The holy roller Shiite Christians.

 

[Alma]

For decades and decades, because of field access issues with Catholic schools who played at rented public school facilities, and/or issues with Catholic schools coaches/parents who didn't want to conflict with local college sports on Saturdays, Catholic sports on Sundays was routine. Absolutely routine.

The roots also date back to the European background (Italian-Irish -French-German-Polish) Of many Catholic families and the tradition of the Continental Sabbath, ie Sunday, as a day of recreation and enjoyment.

Things have changed. That’s hardly what it is anymore. It’s 3 baseball games in a day. It’s all day at the park.

I wouldn’t be surprised if CYO got out for the sake of distinguishing itself and not giving its parishioners a rationale for their kids missing all summer away at ball fields not affiliated with CYO.

 

[Starman]

Things have changed. That’s hardly what it is anymore. It’s 3 baseball games in a day. It’s all day at the park.

I wouldn’t be surprised if CYO got out for the sake of distinguishing itself and not giving its parishioners a rationale for their kids missing all summer away at ball fields not affiliated with CYO.

If your kid is playing high level travel sports, you're gonna play (certainly practice) on Sundays. If you don't like it, stay home and play rec league.

Then get cut from the HS varsity because you've fallen behind all the travel team hotshots.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Christ fulfilled the old law. It's the same reason why Christians don't have animal sacrifice. There's no need. Christians live by faith, not by law.

So, in other word, Leviticus has no place in a post-Christ world?

 

[Starman]

I presume the University of Detroit-Mercy will inform any interested teevee networks they will refuse to play in any televised Sunday games (not that this is any huge danger anyway).

 

[heyabbott]

Christ fulfilled the old law. It's the same reason why Christians don't have animal sacrifice. There's no need. Christians live by faith, not by law.

Don’t misunderstand why I have come. I did not come to abolish the law of Moses or the writings of the prophets. No, I came to accomplish their purpose. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not even the smallest detail of God’s law will disappear until its purpose is achieved. So if you ignore the least commandment and teach others to do the same, you will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But anyone who obeys God’s laws and teaches them will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. But I warn you—unless your righteousness is better than the righteousness of the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven!” — MATTHEW 5:17-20

 

[swingline]

For decades and decades, because of field access issues with Catholic schools who played at rented public school facilities, and/or issues with Catholic schools coaches/parents who didn't want to conflict with local college sports on Saturdays, Catholic sports on Sundays was routine. Absolutely routine.

The roots also date back to the European background (Italian-Irish -French-German-Polish) Of many Catholic families and the tradition of the Continental Sabbath, ie Sunday, as a day of recreation and enjoyment. (Including beer and wine!)


It was holy roller fundamentalist Protestants who went ape**** about keeping Sunday safe from such
profane pursuits.

This was a factor in blue laws that outlawed pro baseball and other sports activities in many cities on Sundays until the 1920s or 30s. The holy roller Shiite Christians.

****, my assbackward state just got rid of its blue laws within the last 20 years.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Professionals...

Huge difference.

I get your point, I assure you, but until you've run into the sorts who think all one should do on the Sabbath is worship, eat and ... well, anything except work, I'll stand by my post.

Too many of those sorts are in the "there's somethin' wrong with them people who don't work 8-5 Monday through Friday" group. Been around too many who view you in a different light strictly for that reason. The judgment is ... a problem.