Saturday, August 27, 2011

College Football on a Saturday

College football, as you quite know is almost always played on saturday.
According to the religious Jewish mind set, no jew can enjoy college football and clearly must not watch television on shabbas, especially a football game.
I took this up for a year and I will report today that it is a false way and totalitarian way of living.
I can not imagine that our Creator made a college scene that is so difficult for the Jewish student to enjoy.  Clearly college football is a part of the college experience.  Do you really think that our God wants us to never go to a game or watch one on television just because you have some improper idea as to how shabbas is to be observed? 
That too it would seem that no jew could ever play football professionally as if he played in college, according to the ultra religious, he would be violating the shabbas and condemning his life to a lesser fate in the world to come.  I must say this one gets tricky, but I do not think that our Creator intended football to be only for the non jew.  So I guess if I have a son some day who wants to compete on saturday in football, I would allow him to do so.
And maybe thats why professional paid football is on sunday. It wont violate shabbat for the Jew to play and earn a living on that day.  Just a thought.

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