The Green Bay Packers and the list custodian

[Eugene Volokh]

    Brief map of list topic Brownian motion:

    Topic =>

       Off-Topic Thread =>

          Remarks on the Thread Being Off-Topic =>

             Remarks on the Significance of the Thread Not
             Being Called Off-Topic by List Custodian =>

                List Custodian Response to Remarks on the
                Significance of the Thread Not Being Called
                Off-Topic by List Custodian

    Anything you can do, I can do meta; but, hey, three generations of
meta are enough.

    To answer the substantive question:  I'm completely uninterested
in sports, and doubt that the status of sports as a national quasi-
religion makes it on-topic to the law of government and religion.

    On the other hand, I don't want to seem a spoil-sport, which is
why I'm sometimes hesitant to step in to snip the occasional frivolous
thread, whether on sports or on something else.

> It is interesting to me that all of this talk about sport has made
> its way on to our law and religion list without any comment about
> relevance from our list custodian.  This only confirms a paragraph
> that I once had excised from an article I was asked to write for the
> Indiana Law Journal about the so-called "death penalty" in intercolle-
> giate sports.  I essentially wrote that, as one who teaches both law
> and religion and sports law, I am often asked about my eclectic teaching
> interests.  In fact, as demonstrated by discussion of late on this list,
> if one is interested in law and religion she should also be interested
> in the religion of the American people -- sport.  Thus, for many Green
> Bay Packer fans, they need only worship at two altars to satisfy the
> call of Coach Lombardi -- the altar of their God (the Packers) and of
> family (perhaps, the Packers and also their family?).


                               -- Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law