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XXXXX DRUDGE RETORT XXXXX 08:01:36 UTC WED FEB 2 2000 XXXXX Titans Blame Last-Second Super-Bowl Loss on 'Lord Our God!
By Rogers Cadenhead Two days after St. Louis Rams quarterback Kurt Warner credited "my savior Jesus Christ" with his team's 23-16 Super Bowl victory, members of the losing team were blaming their last-second defeat on the Lord. "With 5 seconds remaining and our team on the 10-yard-line, I asked God to grant us a touchdown," Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve "Prayer" McNair said. "I did not ask Him for a nine-yard gain in which a Rams linebacker laid hands on our receiver and smote him to the ground as the clock expired." Titans running back Eddie George overheard McNair's conversation with the Lord in the huddle and could corroborate the specifics of his request. "God fucked us," George said. These quotes come from a story filed Tuesday by His Eminence John Cardinal O'Connor, who reported all week from Atlanta as part of VATICAN RADIO's Super Bowl coverage. In ABC and ESPN post-game coverage Sunday night, several Rams players gave props to God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost for the first Super Bowl win in Rams history. "After I missed one field goal and the fucking punter fumbled the hold on another, I prayed to everyone," Rams Kicker Jeff Wilkins confessed to O'Connor. "Even Saint Louis himself." When the game was tied 16-16 in the fourth quarter and momentum had shifted to the Titans, Rams Offensive Coordinator Mike Martz called a play in which wide receiver Isaac Bruce goes in motion to the right, accepts the Lord as his personal saviour, then runs a deep pattern. "I had good coverage but the ball was underthrown," Titans cornerback Denard Walker said about that play. "Would it have killed Jesus to send a safety over for some help? I'm getting crucified by the media in Tennessee." Archbishop O'Connor, who was drafted in 1984 out of Scranton, Penn., by the Catholic Diocese of New York, said that God preferred the wide-open passing attack of the Rams to the aggressive "Old Testament style" running game of the Titans. "This game should lay to rest the rumors that Kurt Warner made a deal with the Devil," O'Connor reported. © DRUDGE RETORT 2001 |