{"id":32629,"date":"2022-09-10T16:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/study-americans-mix-faith-with-their-football\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T16:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:16:58","slug":"study-americans-mix-faith-with-their-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/study-americans-mix-faith-with-their-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Americans Mix Faith With Their Football"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Bob Smietana<\/em><\/p>\n

Americans are more likely to go to church on Sundays than watch football. But many like to mix the two, according to\u00a0a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute.<\/p>\n

One in four Americans say they are more likely to attend church than watch football, while more than one in five (21 percent) say the opposite. One-third (33 percent) say they aren\u2019t likely to be doing either, while 21 percent say they\u2019ll do both.<\/p>\n

Researchers found that about six in 10 Americans call themselves sports fan.
The survey of 1,011 Americans also found that half of fans see supernatural forces at work in sports \u2013 either praying for their team or believing they’re cursed.<\/p>\n

One in four fans (26 percent) will hope for some divine intervention this weekend.<\/p>\n

Among fans, white evangelicals (38 percent) are mostly like to pray for their team, followed by a third of white mainline Protestants (33 percent.)<\/p>\n

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Even some of the so-called \u201cNones\u201d \u2013 those who claim no religion \u2013 ask God for a little help on the gridiron.<\/p>\n

Researchers found that 15 percent of unaffiliated American fans say they pray for their team.<\/p>\n

Other sports fans say they\u2019ve got some kind of ritual they believe helps their team.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmong this group, several will do a little dance or say a little prayer to help the team along,\u201d says Cathy Grossman of Religion News Service.<\/p>\n

Wearing a team jersey is the favorite ritual for sports fans.\u00a0Other fans are a bit more over the top.<\/p>\n

Roughly one-quarter (24 percent) of fans report having a ritual of some kind before or during their team’s game, such as dancing in a circle, sitting in the same seat, or talking to their television, according to PRRI\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

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Among other findings:<\/p>\n