Saturday, February 15, 2025

D.L. Gardner: It's the Only Thing

Legendary NFL Coach Vince Lombardi famously quipped, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” In the long run, how do people measure winning and losing over a lifetime?

Super Bowl LIX features two popular teams with an assortment of popular players and coaches. On top of the athletic competition, President Donald Trump will raise considerable interest as the first sitting president of the United States to attend the premier annual sporting event. President Trump has become a cultural icon on his own with his come-from-behind landslide victory.

Nevertheless, many of the players on both teams in recent years have stepped up into that nebulous world of faith in Jesus Christ. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes answered who Jesus is to him, saying, “Jesus is my Lord and Savior. It’s someone that I look up to every single day to decide what I want to do with my life and how I want to live my life. And so, Jesus is everyting to me at the end of the day.”

Likewise, Mahomes’ counterpart on the Philadephia Eagles, Jalen Hurts answered who Jesus is to him sayng, “I’ve always wanted to root myself in that and keep Him in the center of my life in everything I do.” He continued, “Through the highs and the lows, He’s greater than all of them.”

Both Hurts and Mahomes have attracted admiration from younger and older fans alike not only for their exploits on the field, but possibly more-so for their testimonies about their relationships with their personal Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Those who have sought meaningful relationships as their most important values have counted on the Way, the Truth, and the Life for the ultimate meaning of “the only thing.”

The “cool” American culture swung more and more toward the woke irreverent left over the past few decades. Glorifying sexual perversions of all kinds seemed to triumph over common sense of decoram as well as respect for circumspection. Many feared the next generation was doomed to follow outrageous conduct and rhetoric of fowl mouthed politicians who revel in their one-ups-manship barbs at quaint leaders who stick with tried and true common sense.

On another of one of the biggest stages in American athletics, Ohio State and Notre Dame players showed their own depth of common sense in their young lives. After the big game, Ohio State quarterback Will Howard paused before answering reporters’ questions, asking “Before I say anything, I just gotta give my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ all the glory and all the praise.”

Likewise, Notre Dame’s quarterback Riley Leonard began answering questions by saying, “Before I answer your question, I want to thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for giving me the opportunity to play in this game.” He continued, “I wrote on my hand Proverbs 27:17, ‘As iron sharpens iron, so should one man sharpen another.’”

Commenting on these testimonies at the national championship, media personality Benny Johnson wrote on X, “Wow. Quarterbacks from both Ohio State and Notre Dame praised Jesus Christ after last night’s National Championship game. In sports, there’s a winner and a loser — but in a life devoted to Christ, there are only winners. God Bless these players.”

In the end, praising God for Jesus Christ is “the only thing.”

Daniel L. Gardner is a columnist who lives in Starkville, MS. You may contact him at PJandMe2@gmail.com.

Posted by Kingfish at 9:00 AM

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'll not swerve from my love of international futbol and it's incredible opportunities for an anatomic assortment of athletes. NFL is too political.

February 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Anonymous said...

Daniel is drunk again.

February 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Anonymous said...

Anybody see the weird golden goat statue Trump added to Mar a L ago? What’s up with Trump replacing In God we trust with in Trump we trust. Is Trump God now or a god? I know Daniel believes in the one true savior, Donald Trump, but what about the rest of you so called “Christian’s”? Is Trump the new savior? May Trump have mercy on our souls. Praise be to Trump.

February 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Anonymous said...

Boom! lol

February 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Anonymous said...

Trump IS worthy of praise, but certainly not worship.

February 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Anonymous said...

Oh my...should we ask if it's only the fundamentalist Jesus or the Catholic Jesus or the Lutheran Jesus or the Baptist Jesus or the Presbyterian or Methodist one? Shall we put the Jews in camps again as some blamed them for crucifying Jesus? Daniel can't see the smote in his own eye. Seems to me, that football is a game. Winning isn't everything nor is money, nor should any human be seen as infallible or judged for other than his or her behavior and treatment of others. As for me, I suspect God will be more welcoming to a good person who is honorable, kind and generous than to a "puffed up" Christian or member of any other religion. My idea of Hell is having to listen to men railing against everyone else and bragging about their own perfection day in and day out...especially when they are doing it for money or self-aggrandizement.

February 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Anonymous said...

It's still burning that liberal ass that Trump is your president.

February 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Anonymous said...

I am enjoying watching you guys fawn all over Trump. When his axe falls on you I be the guy saying I told you so.

February 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Anonymous said...

The godless, like yourself, can't see that the attempted murder of Donald Trump, that ended in failure, is GOD's seal of approval. If GOD be for him, who is it that is against him?

February 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Anonymous said...

@1:02 PM I am not “fawning all over Trump”
I hired him (voted) to do a job and I am pleased with the results so far. I will definitely voice my displeasure if that changes. But as of right now I am pleased that the caravans of illegals has slowed to barely a trickle, and the pipelines of tax money flowing into the pockets of corrupt politicians via USAID and the Ukraine money laundering is ending.

February 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Anonymous said...

I wonder if corn and soybean farmers have the same view of USAID, ask them how much of their crop is going to rot in the field or will storage fees bankrupt them, when 50% of their sales market just disappeared. They know about that ax.

February 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Anonymous said...

I’m so glad Trump saved all this money going to the poor and needy. It’s so much better to spend that money on his Super Bowl trip and his tour of the Daytona and his golf vacations and his family vacation. Trump is the best charity, we should all tithe him every Saturday at tee time. Who needs church when we have golfing Trump?

February 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Anonymous said...

So, you really believe the shit that your liberal friends are tell you? You have extreme TDS. It must be extreme, because you think Trump is God.

February 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Anonymous said...

All the money being stolen, and wasted, and this is your post on the subject? Your post says way more about you than it does Trump.

February 17, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Anonymous said...

Trump is too late to put the axe on me, Biden beat him to it.

February 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Anonymous said...

Psalms 2:1 1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

February 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Anonymous said...

TDS also known as American patriotism. Anyone who doesn’t fear this moronic lunatic doesn’t care about our future. We might as well have put Putin in office, he’d do just as good a job of tearing this whole thing down.

February 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Anonymous said...

@2:19 - Trump was actually written about in the Bible, maybe you should read it.

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

February 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Anonymous said...

Thessalonians 2:3–12

3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness[a] is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will overthrow with the breath of his mouth and destroy by the splendor of his coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness

February 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM

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