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Super Bowl Sunday in Ordinary Time

by Fr. Rick Martignetti
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What a beautiful kind of fun lesson. Mary and the most Catholic prayer we have made it into secular terms.

Hey Father Rick here at Ave Maria University. 1975 NFC playoff game between the Minnesota Vikings and their rival the Dallas Cowboys, seconds left on the clock Vikings are up by four, Cowboys have the ball and their good old quarterback Roger Staubach, a good Catholic boy from Navy, takes the snap, he looks he fades back, he’s about 60 yards from the end zone, he sees Drew Pearson making a move, he launches the ball, Pierson fakes out his defender, grabs the ball and runs in for a touchdown. Cowboys win and go on to the NFC playoff championship game.

In an interview, they asked Staubach, what did you do?, he said I just faded back, I threw the ball as hard as I could, I have closed my eyes, and I prayed a Hail Mary and thus the Hail Mary pass was born, a term that made it into everyday speech that just about everybody knows the Hail Mary pass, it even extends now beyond football, whenever there’s desperation whenever, there’s no time on the clock and the enemy is pushing in, it’s time to fade back, and hope for a miracle and pray, and ask the mother of God, the mother of Jesus Christ, to obtain that miracle for us.

What a beautiful kind of fun lesson. Mary and the most Catholic prayer we have made it into secular terms, the headlines in the newspaper the next day Read: Cowboys win by Hail Mary, and we can too when we make the Blessed Mother of God part of everyday, part of Superbowl Sunday, and every day of our lives may God give you peace.

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