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...given Sunday during football season, they need it. There are chapel services prior to the game, and the chaplains often lead the Lord's Prayer pre-game in the locker room and again post-game, with both teams at the 50-yard line. (Participation is optional, and many players abstain from religious services, not wanting to mix their professional lives with their spiritual ones...
...chaplains believe their real value is more long term than game-day ministering. Through teaching Scripture and individual counseling, they attempt to bolster the players' values, so that their priorities, especially when they leave the regulated world of football, do not lead them down the path of self-destruction. At the same time, the chaplains help the players understand the acceptability of being forceful on the field, even as good Christians...
After the 7:30 a.m. Mass for the Packers on game day, Father Baraniak heads over to St. Norbert College, four miles from Lambeau, and officiates at Mass for the students. (Some of them, he admits, come to his service because they know he'll finish in time to get to the game.) By kickoff, Baraniak can be seen on the sidelines in his clerical collar and black garments (his team-color vestment left at the rectory), ready for whatever might get thrown...
...psychology. Freud is dead, isn’t he?” A half hour of ejaculated blood and severed female anatomy later, “Antichrist” has done as much as show that if Freud isn’t dead, he’s certainly fair game for some extreme and rather thickheaded interpretations...
...We’re Dartmouth’s biggest game,” Murphy said. “They go crazy to play Harvard. We will get their very best shot. Those guys will be very excited to play...