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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry…

… and Blotto God …

If your university worships football, then Johnny Manziel and Richie Incognito and Jameis Winston and so many others in the pantheon shock and appall you again and again as they spit on the divinity you have granted them and leave your school as lost as the nation of North Korea will be, should The Dear Leader ever be called home.

The latest scene of disillusion and devastation is the University of Oklahoma, whose quarterback is a drunk who gets in fights with cops and then, when they try to arrest him, flees. A local scribe puts this football-god violence in the context of all the other such violence in the program and concludes it’s a real shame and something should definitely be done about it.

These are tough days for Sooner football. Not as tough as the final days of the Switzer Era when guns and drugs and woes abounded, and yet, the release of the Joe Mixon video and the revelation that Dede Westbrook was twice arrested for domestic violence before arriving in Norman has stained the program.

Stained? Woe unto thee, scribes and Pharisees! Be careful, when thou liest safe and soft, lest thou forget Baylor.

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UD thanks two of her readers for the Jameis Winston link.

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The tweets are coming in.

Positive for Oklahoma fans is at least Baker Mayfield wasn’t charged with punching any women.

All in good time my little pretty; all in good time.

Margaret Soltan, February 27, 2017 1:37PM
Posted in: forms of religious experience, sport

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One Response to “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry…”

  1. Greg Says:

    And, speaking of Winston, hope no one missed this recent, deep reveal.

    http://www.cnn.com/videos/sports/2017/02/24/jameis-winston-ladies-are-supposed-to-be-silent-elementary-students-talk.hln

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