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February 10, 2025

Most Americans Want God, but Not Politics, at the Superbowl

But He doesn’t have a favorite team.

Over the past few years, including this one, there has been public controversy about political messages in professional sports, football especially. Less controversial, it seems, are religious messages in professional sports. Praying before games, or the idea that God guides individuals to athletic success, seems to me a particular expression of the American Protestant ethos. Kelsey Dallas writes:

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