Sportmanship?
Years ago, the chaplain of the football team at Notre Dame was a beloved old
Irish priest. At confession one day, a football player told the priest that he
had acted in an unsportsman-like manner at a recent football game. "I lost
my temper and said some bad words to one of my opponents."
"Ahhh, that's a terrible thing for a Notre Dame lad to be doin'," the
priest said. He took a piece of chalk and drew a mark across the sleeve of his
coat.
"That's not all, Father. I got mad and punched one of my
opponents."
"Saints preserve us!" the priest said, making another chalk mark.
"There's more. As I got out of a pileup, I kicked two of the other team's
players in the in a sensitive area."
"Oh, goodness me!" the priest wailed, making two more chalk marks on
his sleeve. "Who in the world were we playin' when you did these awful
things?"
"Southern Methodist."
"Ah, well," said the priest, wiping his sleeve, "boys will be boys."
Back to Content Page
Return
to Religious Humor Content