Greetings and salutations.

This is Life and Books and Everything.

I'm Kevin DeYoung, Senior Pastor at Christ's Covenant Church in Matthews, North Carolina.

Today I am joined by the very special guests, live from an undisclosed bunker in Sioux City, Iowa. It's

Justin Taylor. And somewhere anticipating in Alabama victory in the somewhat deserved college

football playoff in Birmingham is Colin Hansen.

Good to have you to joining LBE for our annual Christmas special.

All right.

So I hear from people, and it's rather mixed. It's about 50-50. People who come up to me and say,

you're right, I do skip the sports banter. And please include some sports banter. I don't even

care about sports, but I just love listening to the three

of you banter about. So in honor of that second sentiment, why do, I don't want to talk about any of my

football teams, Michigan State, Chicago Bears, Oh, the Bears. But I really wanted to talk about

that Hail Mary yesterday. I was kind of expecting Justin to send you, this is why they should have

Jordan Wester Camp on the roster just for these occasions. I expected that Justin Taylor tweet. That's a great point.

I said to my son last night who was just beside himself about that, I said, you have to have a little

bit of sympathy for the guy. And he said he's paid millions of dollars to do one thing to catch a football.

Even if he's sitting on the ground, holding it like a little baby, kicking it off.

All right, why do Americans, not all, but many, men, but also women, why do Americans like football so much?

I mean, I like almost any sport.

I can watch almost any sport, but I mean, I will watch meaningless bowl games.

Most of them are between six and six teams with hardly anybody in the stands.

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