Do you sometimes pray for a Blazer victory? Do you value the community that being a Blazer fan brings? Have you ever felt euphoric after a Blazer game? We brought on Lindsay Strannigan (@LStrannigan) from the Holy Ghosting podcast to talk about it. This isn’t a talk about all religions or the history of religion in sports, it's a look at how we feel as fans and what we get out of it and how sometimes it feels like church.
Plus . . . how are we managing the approaching trade deadline, who do we think is most likely to be traded and great play by Trendon Watford. All this plus our takes and Social Media Player of the Week!
1:00 Icebreaker: It's Sunday Morning, what did you do on Sunday Mornings when you grew up?
5:30 Getting to know Lindsay - grew up with the Kings, loved Patrick Ewing from the Dream Team, was an anti-Laker fans living in LA, comparing Miami Heat reproductive stories.
16:00 Ways that being a sports fan is like religion, community and sense of belonging
21:30 Sports towns and church towns.
22:30 Fear of missing out of Young Life and Campus Crusade for Christ
25:00 Euphoric sports moments - is this worship?
26:30 Praying for the team?
29:15 Community good works
35:00 Understanding other fans help us understand ourselves, including other sports
38:15 Rituals we go through together
43:00 Is your fan group recruiting and indoctrinating
44:55 Looming trade deadline
47:30 Chandler Parsons interlude
52:40 International players being traded
53:30 How we feel about the possibility of Jusuf Nurkic being traded
57:40 Social Media Player of the Week
1:03:00 Takes: Jusuf Nurkic will not be here after the trade deadline 🙁
1:06:45 Zach might be a good Bachelor
1:08:00 Nassir Little Highly likely to be traded
Music by Erik Peterson! @ShoozumOops on Twitter.
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