Monthly Archives: February 2023

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Daily Broadside | The G.O.A.T Retires, for Real This Time

Tom Brady announced his retirement yesterday, one year after he announced his retirement the first time. In the intervening year, he lost his marriage to supermodel Gisele Bündchen and had his first losing season as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ quarterback, walking off the field for the last time with an 8-9 record after losing to the Dallas Cowboys 31-14 in a first-round playoff game.

Losing is not something Tom Brady is used to.

Brady is greatly admired for his commitment to and longevity in the NFL, with 23 seasons, 35 wins out of 48 postseason appearances, and seven Super Bowl victories in ten appearances—more than any single NFL franchise owns. According to Buccaneers.com, Brady also ranks first in:

  • Wins: 251
  • Pro Bowls: 15
  • Super Bowl MVP Awards: 5
  • Completions: 7,753
  • Attempts: 12,050
  • Passing Yards: 89,214
  • Passing Touchdowns: 649

… and in the postseason, he leads in:

  • Appearances (season): 20
  • Games Started: 48
  • Wins: 35
  • Super Bowl Appearances: 10
  • Super Bowl Wins: 7
  • Completions: 1,200
  • Passing Yards: 13,400
  • Passing Touchdowns: 88
  • Game-Winning Drives: 14
  • Fourth-Quarter Comebacks: 9

The man was chosen in the sixth round at #199 by the New England Patriots in the 2000 NFL Draft. He looked and ran terrible at the NFL Combine. Yet, he turns out to be the most prolific passer in NFL history with over 100,000 yards in combined regular season and postseason, and he did it over 23 years in a league where the average “career” for a player is 3.3 years and the average for a quarterback is 4.4 years. The sport is that demanding.

Also, did you know that he was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 18th round of the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft?

And if all that weren’t enough, he signed a ten-year $375 million dollar contract to be in the Fox broadcast booth for top NFL games when he’s ready.

The man has had it all, with more to come. The G.O.A.T., handsome, married to a phenomenally successful model, three kids and a shoo-in for the NFL Hall of Fame.

And he had all that before the start of his last season. I can’t help but squirm when I think that he put football ahead of his marriage and family, and all for what, exactly? Another 4,000 yards passing? Another 490 completions? Another 25 touchdown passes? A losing season? A traumatized psyche?

Well, woo-hoo.

It just seems incredibly myopic.

But I don’t know TB12 or his family or what led to the divorce, although the press seems to think it was that Brady unretired last year and Gisele had finally had enough. It was tragic, I thought at the time, and still think that today. He had a life that looked, from an outsider’s view, “perfect.”

If he and she had a relationship with Christ, maybe it would be different. Marriage is difficult but we’re told:

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. (1 Corinthians 7:10-11)

I have no personal investment in Brady’s life, but I’d love to see a reconciliation with Gisele and their kids.

For Tom’s sake, and for theirs.

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Daily Broadside | Nebraska Senator: Vacation Bible Schools Are as Perverted as Drag Queen Shows. Just Kidding!

Happy February!

I was at a church business meeting recently and one of the elders warned the congregation that we needed to prepare ourselves for persecution. He didn’t say so with any drama or flair; just a candid observation of where things are headed in our culture and the inevitable destination our trajectory is leading towards.

I’ve been warning for some time that Christians will be in the crosshairs, eventually, and we’re even beginning to see some of it appear here and there. While it isn’t Nero lighting his garden parties with the bodies of burning Christians (yet), one doesn’t have to be a prophet to understand where these things lead.

‘Anti-religious bigotry’: Nebraska Dem’s amdt. would ban kids from vacation Bible schools, church youth groups

A Democratic lawmaker in Nebraska is being accused of “anti-religious bigotry” by Republicans after she proposed to ban children from attending church youth groups or vacation Bible schools.

State Sen. Megan Hunt says her amendment, which would ban children under 19 years of age from attending a “religious indoctrination camp,” is intended to kill the underlying bill, LB 371, a measure put forward by Republicans to ban minors from attending drag performances. The text of the amendment asserts there is a “well-documented history of indoctrination and sexual abuse perpetrated by religious leaders and clergy people upon children.”

Equating a drag show with vacation bible school? This is classic mid-brain progressivism comparing apples to oranges because of superficial similarities, e.g. they both grow on a tree. What it really underscores is the two different worldviews at work. One, that we are to honor and obey the transcendent God, versus the other, that we are to live out our most depraved lunacies—and teach our kids to do the same.

Here’s what her amendment is trying to whitewash:

But, thank goodness, the illustrious senator tells us not to worry.

“This is an amendment that I will use to make a point,” Hunt told Fox News Digital. “This amendment obviously won’t pass, and I would withdraw it if it had the votes to pass. It’s a device to make a point, so there is no need to worry.”

Thankfully I already have the assurance that I don’t have to worry.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. — Philippians 4:6

However, senator, you obviously aren’t thinking long-term and wouldn’t care if you were. You’ve just planted seeds that others will see and copy. You’ve just denigrated without cause the foundation of Western law and society. You’ve added to the subtle but growing web of oppression directed at Christians.

Now do Muslims, senator.