SUPER BOWL 40

THE WICKEDNESS OF IRAN'S PRESIDENT, MR. AHMADINEJAD, WHO SPEWS 'HOLY' PROCLAMATIONS ABOUT THE TAKEOVER OF THE WORLD FROM THE INFIDELS IN THE WEST, MIGHT IN PART BE EXPLAINED BY THE FACT THAT HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH HAS NO SUPER BOWL #40. ON SUNDAY, DETROIT WILL BE AMERICA'S MECCA FOR SPORTS' MANIA. THIS MANIA HAS EVEN SPILLED OVER TO MSMBC WITH A HOT, SIDELINE DISPUTE OVER BLACK QUARTERBACKS IN FOOTBALL. WHAT A CALMING AND RATIONALIZING EFFECT, THE MADNESS OF AN INCONSEQUENTIAL, BUT DEMOCRATIC EVENT ( IN TELEOLOGICAL TERMS ANYWAY) LIKE OUR SUPER BOWL COULD HAVE ON THE ARAB WORLD. INTO THE 17TH, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES EUROPE'S CHRISTIANS BELIEVED IN THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDDOM. THESE WERE SAINTS FROM ENGLAND (GEORGE), SCOTLAND ( THE APOSTLE ANDREW), IRELAND ( PATRICK), WALES (DAVID), FRANCE (BISHOP DENIS), SPAIN ( THE APOSTLE JAMES) AND ITALY ( ANTHONY OF PADUA) WHO KICKED SOME CELESTIAL BUTT AGAINST EVILDOERS. WHERE ARE THEY TODAY? PERHAPS THEIR MODERN AVATARS ARE ON THE GRIDIRON, AS AMBASSADORS WITH 'OLD-FASHIONED' WARRIOR MENTALITIES. A SAINT IS TYPICALLY THE RECIPIENT OF PRAYERS WHICH ASK FOR SAFEGUARD AGAINST WICKEDNESS AND SNARES OF THE DEVIL. MAY THE CHRISTIAN GOD REBUKE HIM, ( THE DEVIL), WE USUALLY HUMBLY ENTREAT. AS A PRINCE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST, WE HOPE THE SAINT WILL, BY THE POWER OF GOD, CAST INTO HELL ALL THE EVIL SPIRITS WHO PROWL ABOUT THE WORLD SEEKING THE RUIN OF OUR SOULS. I MIGHT ADD, ALSO THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR BODIES. AMEN. WHERE ARE OUR 7 HORSEMEN OF THE APOLOCLYPSE ? PERHAPS ... CHEERING IN THE STANDS AT SUNDAY'S SUPER BOWL.