American are religious people; they have trust in God. A recent survey has confirmed it. It found that most Americans believe that God will decide the result of the Super Bowl.
According to a survey released earlier from the Public Religion Research Institute, 27 percent of Americans think that God plays some role in the outcome of sporting events. Minority Christians and White Evangelical protestants believe this a bit more strongly (nearly 4 in 10 do), while Catholics (29 percent), white Mainline protestants (19 percent), and the unaffiliated (12 percent) are more skeptical of that notion. Southerners are also more likely to believe that God plays favorites with sports teams.
Americans are a bit more eager to believe that individual players, however, benefit from having faith. A majority, 53 percent, think that faithful athletes are rewarded with good health and success on the field. And again, there’s a split between more conservative religious demographics, which are much more likely to believe that God would boost individual players, and mainline and unaffiliated respondents. Unsurprisingly, half of respondents said they are fine with public displays of religious faith on the field from players. The vast majority of the rest (45 percent) say such displays don’t really matter.
But don’t get fan fervor confused for religious experience: While Americans are just as likely to watch sports once a week as they are to go to church, just 1 percent of those surveyed said that being a sports fan of their favorite team is the most important thing in their life (14 percent said this was very important). Nearly 6 in 10, however, said that religion was either the most important thing in their life, or very important.
A lot of American prayed for their team to win. About half way through the game God was so confused given the number of prayers he was receiving for the two teams that he stopped the game by switching off the power for almost half an hour. After the half an hour God decided that the 49ers needed some help. So he helped them but they still were not able to win.
