{"id":8435,"date":"2023-08-19T17:36:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T17:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=8435"},"modified":"2024-03-11T20:33:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T20:33:34","slug":"the-game-of-inches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/19\/the-game-of-inches\/","title":{"rendered":"The Game of Inches"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By Will Bryant<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The ritual of Sunday church and the ritual of Sunday football have some remarkable similarities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201cWe\u2019re in hell right now, gentleman, believe me.\u201d Tony D\u2019Amato, head coach for the Miami Sharks\u2014portrayed in Oliver Stone\u2019s Any Given Sunday<\/em> by a seedy, scenery-chewing, 90s-vintage Al Pacino\u2014has three minutes to heal a season\u2019s worth of brokenness, to raise his team from death to life. And so D\u2019Amato embarks upon that greatest of American literary forms, the Locker Room Speech. D\u2019Amato will use every second of his three minutes: to call his team to repentance, to reforge their bonds as teammates, to remind them that football is a \u201cgame of inches\u201d where every snap, step, pass, and catch brings you closer to victory or defeat.<\/p>

The hope of salvation D\u2019Amato has to offer his team is no cheap grace. Any Given Sunday<\/em> gives a raw treatment of the violence, injury, and substance abuse that run rampant in the NFL. The in-game sequences are nerve-wracking. Coaches yell and players growl and pads collide and no one can catch their breath. The off-field scenes are just as gritty: men get in each others\u2019 faces, medics court malpractice, a defensive lineman defecates thunderously. There is little apparent nobility in the football of Any Given Sunday<\/em>. And so it falls to the head coach to find transcendence in the chaos, to narrate his team\u2019s journey \u201cback into the light.\u201d D’Amato offers up his own brokenness, and he shares his faith with his team, and when he tells them, \u201cWe can climb out of hell, one inch at a time,\u201d they believe him.<\/p>

Inspiring stuff. And if you find the drama of football\u2014even fictional football\u2014more compelling than other Sunday fare, you\u2019re not alone. While church membership has fallen by a quarter since 1975, NFL viewership has skyrocketed. The Super Bowl, for example, has more than doubled its TV viewership since 1975, reaching an audience of 113 million this past February. Regular season games, too, command a staggering amount of American attention. Of the 100 most popular telecasts in 2022, 82 of them were NFL games. It seems most Americans prefer to spend their day of rest not in worship and contemplation of God but in a celebration of gladiatorial competition and consumeristic flash.<\/p>

On the other hand, the ritual of Sunday church and the ritual of Sunday football have some remarkable similarities. Both are deeply social, attended together by families and close friends. Both have dress codes to mark the occasion. Both have a bodily liturgy: there are times to sit, times to stand, times to chant or sing. Both have complex languages that are unfamiliar to the uninitiated. Both rely on an affiliation with a particular town or city. The list goes on. The same loves that motivate football fandom also inspire religious faith. It just might be possible that if we investigate these connections more deeply, Tony D\u2019Amato is telling you to go to church.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The athlete and the Christian must both exercise \u201cself-control in all things.\u201d They must be single- minded in pursuit of their goal.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The power of D\u2019Amato\u2019s vision of football comes from its reduction of the game to the smallest constituent of victory: the inch. And football really is a \u201cgame of inches.\u201d Vast resources\u2014fifty-one professional athletes, hundreds of support staff, and millions of dollars\u2014are recruited in service of that mind-numbingly simple goal: move the ball forward, even by an inch. \u201cThe inches we need are everywhere around us,\u201d D\u2019Amato says. \u201cThey\u2019re in every break of the game, every minute, every second.\u201d Every waking moment of a professional football player\u2019s life\u2014every practice, every workout, every bite of food\u2014is devoted to the inch. The margin between failure and success is razor-thin: \u201c…one half a step too late or too early and you don\u2019t quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast, you don\u2019t quite catch it.\u201d The game of inches requires nothing less than purity of heart: absolute singleness of will. It requires a discipline, a focus, a total dedication that is utterly sacrificial: \u201cwe tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch.\u201d<\/p>

The apostle Paul would have made a great coach. He narrates the Christian life with the same clarity that D\u2019Amato brings to the game of football. For Paul, every motion of our hearts and bodies is to submit to \u201cthe law of the Spirit,\u201d as he writes in his letter to the Romans. To the church in Corinth, he writes, \u201cDo you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win it.\u201d This is only one of many direct comparisons he draws between the life of the Christian and the life of the athlete. Paul sees the world as a seasoned competitor sees his sport: the same possibility of victory and defeat scattered through a million tiny chances, each worth fighting for. The athlete and the Christian must both exercise \u201cself-control in all things.\u201d They must be single-minded in pursuit of their goal; if athletes will submit to the exhaustive demands of training and discipline \u201cto win a perishable wreath,\u201d how much more should Christians be willing to sacrifice \u201cto win an imperishable one.\u201d D\u2019Amato says that in order to win, \u201cwe tear ourselves\u2026 to pieces,\u201d and Paul couldn\u2019t agree more: \u201cI do not run aimlessly, nor do I box as though beating the air; but I punish my body and enslave it.\u201d It might seem counterintuitive, but if more Sunday sermons tapped into this narrative of triumph through sacrifice, church attendance might win back some inches from the ruthless blitz of the NFL.<\/p>

Finding inspiration in a clear, goal-oriented narrative doesn\u2019t mean ignoring the ways we fall short of both the goal and our devotion to it. Both Christianity and football have to wrestle with sin. The reason Tony D\u2019Amato needs to give his \u201cGame of Inches\u201d speech is because he has failed them as a coach so far. His team is in shambles: their young quarterback is inexperienced and narcissistic, the locker room is rife with whining and infighting, the management have dithered and debated themselves into a seemingly unwinnable position. Tony is in shambles himself, and that\u2019s where he starts, by owning up to his status as \u201cthe worst of all sinners\u201d: \u201cI made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who\u2019s ever loved me, and lately, I can\u2019t even stand the face I see in the mirror.\u201d By humbling himself, Tony helps the players face their own \u201csins,\u201d their own ways of falling short.<\/p>

Critically, D\u2019Amato helps his players see that their selfishness is keeping each of them locked in their own private hell, isolated from their teammates: \u201cEither we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.\u201d In the same way, disunity represents a serious failure in the life of the church. The apostle Paul echoes D\u2019Amato\u2019s ultimatum when writing to the divided church in Corinth. He rebukes them strongly for their disunity: \u201cIs Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized in the name of Paul? I thank God that I did not baptize any of you\u2026\u201d For Paul, disunity among Christians is a grave sin. He goes so far as to express gratitude that he did not baptize the Corinthians, so that he is not associated with their fractured church.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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On the positive side, Paul emphasizes the unity of the Christian life. He exhorts the Ephesians to \u201cMake every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.\u201d He goes on to describe the oneness with which the church is called to follow Christ. \u201cThere is one body and one Spirit,\u201d he writes, \u201cjust as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.\u201d The Christian narrative of sacrificial triumph makes no qualifications or discriminations. All are called to the same, unified life. When this common life breaks down, the entire church falls into sin. It is only through the corporate action of the \u201cbody of Christ\u201d that individual Christians are freed from self-centeredness. The church recognizes that Christians \u201cwill die as individuals,\u201d so, like D\u2019Amato, it encourages a \u201cteam spirit.\u201d Many churches, for example, practice the corporate confession of sin every Sunday, a testament to the redemptive nature of unity. The life of the Christian\u2014like the life of the football player\u2014can only be rightly lived in unity with others.<\/p>

Not only must the football player and the Christian live a life of unity with others, they must also give up that life for the sake of victory. Tony tells his players, \u201cIn any fight, it\u2019s the guy who\u2019s willing to die, who\u2019s going to win that inch. And I know if I\u2019m going to have any life anymore, it\u2019s because I\u2019m still willing to fight and die for that inch because that\u2019s what living is.\u201d The death the players would die as individuals, the death of ignominious defeat, would be a waste. But their willingness to sacrifice their lives for their goal, for one another, perhaps for the sport itself\u2014this death paradoxically brings life.<\/p>

The same is true about life in Christ. In Luke\u2019s gospel, Jesus warns his disciples that \u201cthe Son of Man\u2026 must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.\u201d He invites his disciples into the same death and resurrection, saying, \u201cWhoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.\u201d The Christian, like the football player, faces a threat of death. If they attempt to \u201csave their life\u201d by \u201cliving according to the flesh,\u201d they will die spiritually. But, paradoxically, if \u201cby the Spirit they put to death\u2026 the body,\u201d they will live. For the Christian, real life\u2014eternal life\u2014requires the death of the flesh.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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The American obsession with athletic excellence is not so far removed from an obsession with spiritual virtue.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This (re)understanding of death brings us full circle, back to the promise of a life under a rigorous, all-encompassing discipline\u2014a law\u2014that paradoxically gives us our freedom. On the football field, by subjecting themselves to the hard preparation of training, the players gain matchless freedom of movement: the strength and speed and coordination that makes gaining inches look easy. The intense rigor of athletic training creates an appearance of effortlessness. When millions of Americans erupt in celebration after an acrobatic end zone catch, they are worshiping virtuosic skill, and by association, the underlying discipline that produced it. The American public consciousness is obsessed with this kind of virtue\u2014think of the mania that followed Odell Beckham Jr.\u2019s jaw-dropping one-handed catch in 2014, or the idol-worship of Tom Brady as \u201cGOAT\u201d\u2014and so it is also obsessed with the law underneath. Sneaker commercials and Gatorade ads celebrate the blood, sweat, and tears required by athletic discipline, and the freedom it produces.<\/p>

In just the same way, the Christian church assembles to worship Christ\u2019s freedom in his resurrection, and the underlying discipline that produced that freedom. What\u2019s more, the Christian can participate in Christ\u2019s freedom and his discipline. Paul writes that, \u201c…through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.\u201d The law of the Spirit\u2014this rigorous way of life\u2014ultimately sets the Christian free through Christ. Through the study of the Bible and the history of the church, Christians celebrate examples of particularly virtuosic or \u201cChrist-like\u201d behavior, and seek to emulate those behaviors in their own lives. They venerate the product of the discipline\u2014freedom in Christ\u2014and seek that same discipline for themselves.\u00a0<\/p>

A church service on Sunday morning, then, offers much the same excitement as that of a football game. Though less athletically engaging, a church service offers the same vicarious participation in a life-defining drama of disciplined excellence. By comparing football and church, I intend this essay as a reminder for what the church can offer today\u2019s America. Professional football, undoubtedly, gives Americans much in the way of entertainment, cultural identity, social formation, and the development of virtue. By contrast, many Americans today see the church as backwards and decrepit, unable to offer anything of value. I think they have forgotten what the church is capable of. The church has to offer the kind of life-consuming narrative that Americans will go to great lengths to find, whether in sports or in something else.<\/p>

What\u2019s more, the church is also capable of being a cultural staple in the same way that professional football is now. The American obsession with athletic excellence is not so far removed from an obsession with spiritual virtue. Though the American church has lost the cultural limelight, it continues its dependable, weekly operation, always pressing against the cultural bulwark with a competing narrative of life, death, discipline and freedom.\u00a0 On \u201cany given Sunday,\u201d the life-defining game of inches is on, and in church, we already know who wins.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Photos by Unsplash by photographers and from Oak Ridge Football 1947.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Will Bryant <\/strong>is a junior at Dartmouth College, where he studies Quantitative Social Sciences, Religion, and Philosophy. Outside the classroom, he works as a research assistant in economics and enjoys adventuring in the New Hampshire.
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