Religion and Sports part 2

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! In sports news this week, Josh Hamilton won the AL MVP. That's awesome because he is really good at baseball. This adds another chapter to his amazing story. If you don't know what I'm talking about Google it. During his press conference he started thanking God for all his accomplishments and that got me thinking where does religion fit in the world of sports? For example, we pray before football game and it doesn't really seems to have an effect, we still lose. What I've noticed that really bothers me is that once athlete's religion is known, we put them on a really high pedestal. Josh Hamilton is one example of this but I think Tim Tebow is a better one. I remember during the national title game a couple years ago where they couldn't talking about how awesome Tim Tebow was because he was good at football and he exercised demons from children in his spare time or something like that. I think it's dangerous for athletes to come out and proclaim their faith in a public way. Due to the environment that athletes are part of, they're more likely to slip up. Then when they slip up, they're going to hear about it.