If you want to talk to somebody, you have to speak their language, don’t you?
I think it’s about time for Christians all across
It’s time for us to tell the multi-millionaire owners of professional sports franchises that we’re through financing their habit of hiring thugs and druggies to serve as our children’s heroes and role models.
It’s time for us to tell the media giants that their TV audience ratings are about to plummet like a wounded duck if they don’t use their mega-buck contracts to convince pro teams in all sports to clean up their act. If Christians refused to watch pro sports for just one season, what would the networks do?
Don’t take me wrong. Nobody enjoyed the Cowboys more than I used to. When they showcased Christian gentleman like Tom Landry and Roger Staubach, they were indeed a team to be proud of.
But all that changed. Truth-in-advertising laws should now require them to be called not Cowboys, but Playboys. I would weep if my grandsons grew up to imitate most of them. Wouldn’t you?
It’s not just the Cowboys, of course. In addition to their official list of disabled players, virtually every franchise in every sport needs a weekly roster of players in jail or in court. Are criminals and thugs the only people able to catch a pass or dunk a ball?
Maybe I’m missing something, but to me it seems out of character for the people of God to spend a fortune every week to finance the sins of the ungodly. I don’t want my dollars to enable the immoralities of a Michael Irvin or a Magic Johnson. Do you?
If we Christians are going to send a wake-up message to the powerbrokers of American professional sports, we’ll probably have to speak the only language most of them know. It’s called Dollar$. And they speak it fluently.
Normally I am hesitant about boycotts, Christian or otherwise. They hurt too many good people along with the bad. But I’m not sure how else we can send a Christian message to these philistines who are misleading our kids toward drugs and debauchery.
Has anybody got a better idea?