Taran Killiam as Tim Tebow and Jason Sudekis as Jesus Christ
On the 12/17 episode of Saturday Night Live, the final skit featured a locker room meeting between Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow and Jesus Christ. I hope even Tebow's most ardent supporters can find humor in this sketch.
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Good skit - considering the cast of SNL has been dead for a while now. :(
This makes me long for the days when Will Ferrell would step in and nail Jesus.
But compared to what I've seen on SNL for the past few weeks, this was good. The Katy Perry and Steve Buscemi episodes were very weak. With the exception of Kenan Thompson as Al Sharpton.
If you ask me, though, they were a little nicer than they coulda been with it. Very odd for SNL. I expected way more Tebow-bashing.
Since I'm a Raiders fan and not religious, this is right up my alley.
Josh: I heard last Saturday's show was strong overall. I'll have to either catch it on Hulu or in reruns. The Tebow skit was not only funny, but it made some good points too. Predictably, some on the religious right are upset about the skit. Whatever.
I've never been a regular SNL viewer. However, I have been watching more frequently over the past few years (based on the guest host/musical performer that week). To me, it's been hit or miss. To make it stronger, I think they should trim the show from 90 minutes to an hour. That'll probably never happen though because NBC would lose out on ad revenue.
The Al Sharpton skit was hilarious. As a regular viewer of Sharpton's show, I was saying to myself that SNL should do a skit on it with Kenan playing Al. I was pleased to see my wish was granted. It was also funny to see Al's reaction to the skit. He had a good sense of humor about it and even poked fun at himself by intentionally looking into the wrong camera during last Monday's show.
I forgot you are a Raiders fan. It must have made you sick to watch my Lions stage yet another 4th quarter comeback! If you follow the NFL closely, you knew the Lions weren't dead even when they were down 13 with less than 6 minutes to go in the 4th quarter.
I don't think religious offense, as feigned as it is, is "political" so much that the mainstream paints Christianity as a right-wing belief system.
If religious people are offended, they're not offended due to their political persuasions. And that means a leftist religious person would be just as likely offended by the same things if believing in the same system. But we all know that you'd never hear it told like that.
As to the Lions' comeback - I was pretty numb to it. I've been on back-to-back weeks of watching Oakland getting crushed by a weak Dolphins team and a Green Bay team with an incredibly suspect secondary.
Oakland has all but given up. And that's unfortunately par for the course for that undisciplined, embarrassing excuse of so-called professional athletes.
The one receiver they have to guard and...
I'm glad to see the Lions stringing together some wins for Detroit. The Tigers aren't much of anything. The Pistons have long fell apart. And I can't even remember what their hockey team's name is. Red Wings? Ugg.
It's a shame that the Lions are finally coming on in a season where Brees is killing it, the Packers look immortal when firing on all cylinders, and even the 49ers are playing inspired football.
Luckily they're probably the youngest team in the NFC. Once Alex Smith's 15 minutes are up and the Packers' WRs lose a step and management for the Saints takes away yet more key defensive pieces, it should be Detroit's conference.
The Cowboys and Falcons are fairly explosive, but they have some flawed dynamics happening there.
As long as Detroit's defensive belligerency doesn't cost them momentum and key opportunities, I can see them in a conference championship next year.
This year I doubt they'll win their playoff game. They'll have to travel to New Orleans or San Fran most likely. But it will be a good experience.
My biggest grievance about the Lions is still the Thanksgiving game. At least on the years that Dallas and Detroit play one another, they should do so on Thanksgiving, alternating home field, to make way for better games.
Regardless, I just want to see any NFC team get in the Super Bowl and beat Tom Brady and his friggin' cocky-ass Patriots!
As a proud Raiders fan, I have two choice words for Brady...
TUCK RULE!
Josh: I just don't see the phony outrage by the Christian left as I do on the right. The liberals I know who are religious couldn't care less.
I do have to educate you on some recent Detroit sports history. :-)
The "not much anything" Tigers made it to the ALCS this past season (losing to the Rangers in 6 games). They also have arguably the best pitcher (Cy Young/MVP winner Justin Verlander) and hitter (Miguel Cabrera) in the game.
As for The Red Wings, they've won more Stanley Cups (4) over the past 15 years than any other team. The last one was in 2008. They also have the longest current streak of playoff appearances (20 seasons) in all of North American professional sports.
Yeah. But MLB and NHL only matters as far as homers.
Nobody cares about hockey, for sure, and baseball loses steam outside of big markets.
Football is where it's at in football cities, and a hypothetical Lions' Super Bowl win would mean more for Detroit than the entire history of championships gained by lesser sports.
That aside, I'm still a baseball fan. It just doesn't matter much outside of big markets.
Josh: The importance of a sport is irrelevant. Although hockey has become a niche sport, it doesn't negate the fact that the Detroit Red Wings have been on a remarkable run for the last two decades. Also, just because the country hasn't turned into "Tigers Nation" doesn't put a damper on the success the Tigers have had over the past 5 seasons. I couldn't care less if sports fans nationwide don't get caught up in Red Wings/Tigers fever. As long as my local teams are doing well, I'm happy.
To say that football is king in this country is to state the obvious. Anyone who tries to argue otherwise isn't being objective.
As for what a Lions Super Bowl win would mean to Detroit sports fans, you're not telling me anything I don't already know. Not only do I live in the area, but I talk to friends/relatives who are sports fans and listen to local sports radio. As a result, I know first hand that the success of the Lions trumps anything that the other area sports franchises do. A couple of months ago, there were many Detroit sports fans who were more excited about that night's MNF match between the Lions and Bears than they were in the Tigers/Rangers ALCS game that same day!
If I'm coming off as patronizing, that's not my intent... I'm just stating the facts. :-)
Wasn't trying to tell you anything you didn't know. Just stating how someone who's not a homer sees it is all.
But you're also not telling me anything I didn't already know.
So we're in rare agreement here through most of it.
Congrats to homers for minor successes. We don't have many here with our home teams (D.C.) - but I've never been a homer anyway.
I'm not even sure how much we agree on this one. I don't consider myself a "homer". My defense of the Tigers and the Red Wings have nothing to do with me living in the area. If you were to say the Milwaukee Brewers aren't much of anything or dismissed the Pittsburgh Penguins, I would have reacted the same way. My only disagreement (admittedly a minor one) with what you said about the Pistons is them long ago falling apart. 2008 (the last time they made it to the Conf. Finals) isn't that long ago. :-)
I thought more about how some Detroit area fans reacted to the Lions' recent MNF appearance vs. the Tigers/Rangers ALCS game the same night. I think a big part of it was due to the fact that the Lions not only haven't had any success for a long time, they also hadn't played a MNF game in years. If the Lions manage to become an elite team and sustain that excellence over long time period, some fans will likely become complacent to a degree (the way they did with the Pistons and still do with the Red Wings).
Although the Tigers' 2011 playoff run got short shrift by some area fans, it was a different reaction overall in 2006. It was similar to what the Lions are experiencing now. In 2006, fans treated the Tigers' success differently because it had been so long and it was unexpected.
They aren't much of anything to me. They aren't much of anything to mainstream sports. Hockey in general, and an AL team that's not the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, Rangers or Rays. Even the White Sox.
If they are to you, have fun with it. But most Detroit teams are to professional sports what Boise State is to the BCS: inconsequential regardless.
But an NFL team is different.
The Pistons were good, but now they are destroyed. Shame. They could had still been in contention until last year perhaps. Coaching and GM issues crushed the team.
My point was that the Lions are where it's at. Those other Detroit teams' successes or failures are homer issues only - barring a World Series win or another NBA title.
But I already know if I said the sky was blue, you'd nitpick away at that on principle. I know that yet still come here to comment. So it's all good.
I would like to see the Lions become players in the NFC though. They're due. Being a bottom-rung team since the mid 90s is inconceivable given the draft. Matt Millen and other hacks share blame in that. But whatever's going on with the culture at large, I'd like to see a change. I'm a root-for-the-underdog kinda guy.
If you want to think any non-Lions team are "homer only" interests, have at it. As for my so-called nitpicking, if you were to say something that made as much sense as "the sky is blue", I'd wholeheartedly welcome it. Please... surprise me! :-) However, I think some of what you said was half-baked at best. If you wanna deem me calling you out for it "nitpicking", that's fine. I'd expect nothing less.
You know, I keep an eye to this blog regularly, but rarely comment, enjoying the back and forth instead. However, Josh's comments were just more than a little ridiculous. MLB is for homers? Really, Josh? Where were you this summer? You know, when the Tigers were EVERYWHERE in the national news, not just the Free Press and News? When the last night of the regular season was a crazy dramatic fun ending with playoff implications?
How can you say oh, just homers follow MLB, and then bring up the WHITE SOX as a "national" interest team? The White Sox. That is awesome. The only thing interesting about them this year was what profanity-laden bit of inanity was going to spout from Ozzie's yap.
Do you even watch baseball, or are you trying to pick something with Malcolm, who is a serious baseball fan and has been for years?
Amazing.
The only thing I can agree with you on is the face that SNL has been pretty weak for a while. That Tebow sketch was classic, though. Loved it. I'm enjoying the Tebow backlash.
Amy: Thanks for commenting. I had no idea that you were a regular reader here.
As expected, you made some excellent points. I had to laugh when Josh mentioned the White Sox as a team that has national interest. Hell, they aren't even the most popular MLB team in their own city!
Maybe he does have a point about Justin Verlander/The Detroit Tigers not generating any interest outside of MI. Although Sports Illustrated did a cover story on JV this year, it doesn't matter because they're just a regional mag with a small circulation. Also, even though ESPN gave ample air time to JV and the Tigers this year, who cares because ESPN is just a fly-by-night public access channel that's only available in Southeast Michigan. :-)
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