A Sporty Weekend

Football is allll the way back.

Friday, Philadelphia beat Green Bay 34-29 in the NFL’s first Brazil game. The loss isn’t the only thing Packers fans are hanging their cheeseheads over… their QB, Jordan Love, will be out for 3+ weeks after spraining his MCL late in the game. 

Saturday’s highlight was a jaw-dropping upset—28.5-point underdog Northern Illinois beat #5 Notre Dame in South Bend—and Sunday’s headlines included Tom Brady’s commentating debut in the Browns-Cowboys game and Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill’s detainment for a driving violation near Hard Rock Stadium. Hill was released and scored a TD in the Dolphins’ victory. 

In non-football news, the US Open wrapped with Belarus’s Aryna Sabalenka victorious on Saturday and Italian Jannik Sinner beating out America’s Taylor Fritz on Sunday, continuing the U.S. men’s two-decade Open drought.  

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CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE
Sports can teach us a lot about everyday life—the value of teamwork, perseverance, and even loyalty as a fan. Athletes’ commitment to their sport encourages us to press on as we seek to win an “imperishable crown” at the end of our faith journey, and the joy of fans for their team can give us a foretaste of the greatest celebration in history.

“Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable crown.”
1 Corinthians 9:25 (CSB) (read full passage)