What would you do?

[Cianne]

From today's Ask College Football News...

My first child was just born three weeks ago. I am a devout Roman Catholic and my wife is a Methodist. In regards to raising our daughter, she has agreed to join the church and raise our daughter as a Catholic. But with all good marriages, there is give and take. My wife and her family are Clemson all the way (my daughter already has a subscription to the Orange and White) and my family is entrenched with the SC Gamecocks. So I had to agree to let my wife and her family raise her as a Tiger. So you see, she could have been a protestant Gamecock. So my question is do you think I made a good deal? And do you think it is ok for me to use my fatherly influence when she gets older to tell her how much better it is to be a Gamecock? Just so you understand the situation, I love this woman so much that I have stroked a check two years in a row for Clemson season tickets and this absolutely kills me. I thought I could do it but I find myself stifling cheers for the other team as I sit in the stands. - Clif B.

A: You lost in the trade-off big time. So your version of how to pray to Jim Caviezel is more important than your Gamecock worship at the altar of Spurrier? She’ll ditch the religion when she hits college and realizes the wonders of sleeping in on Sunday after her first house party, but you’ve stuck her with your hated rival for life. There’s a special place in the afterlife for you. It’s not heaven, hell, or considering your Catholic upbringing, purgatory. It’s an all white room with a refrigerator with nothing but Pepsi, and a one channel TV that only gets WNBA games. However, considering you have a daughter, she’ll rebel against everything when she’s in her teens meaning it’s possible she'll abandon Clemson for South Carolina just to cheese off your wife. Maybe then your better half will let you borrow her pants.

[OmahaBound]

that is unbelievably hilarious.

[SilverBritches]

Raise her a gamecock. Football is religion in the South.

[Spurrierismyhomeboy]

Yeah this was funniest thing Ive heard in awhile! This guy should be ex-communicated from the church of Spurrier this is blasphmey your either all-gamecock or not at all. I know some of you other SEC schools might not understand this but we hate Clemson, I mean the kind of hatred where you spit on the grave hatred! What do you think fueled the brawl last year, it was the fans from both sides putting so much pressure on the coaches, and the players that it boiled over on the field. As far as this guy is concerned choose USC, I think no matter what religion there is you'll go to the same god.

[cocky4ever]

Well, look at it this way: I was raised in a christian, clemson home and grew up to be neither one. Not just to rebel either. I became a Gamecock fan as soon as I went to a Gamecock game in Williams-Brice with a friend of mine when I was in the 6th grade. I questioned Christianity at an early age as well. Hopefully he'll raise a free thinker and she'll find her own way. She can go to all the chumpson games they can take her to, but after the first Gamecock game she goes to in Williams-Brice she will be totally converted. ;)

[GTmorris1970]

Well, look at it this way: I was raised in a christian, clemson home and grew up to be neither one. Not just to rebel either. I became a Gamecock fan as soon as I went to a Gamecock game in Williams-Brice with a friend of mine when I was in the 6th grade. I questioned Christianity at an early age as well. Hopefully he'll raise a free thinker and she'll find her own way. She can go to all the chumpson games they can take her to, but after the first Gamecock game she goes to in Williams-Brice she will be totally converted. ;)

As usual, nicely put.....Stick with the Gamecocks!! :cool:

[jneesy]

dont worry about the child convert the wife and everything else will fall into place


worked for me

[JerryBeeds]

dont worry about the child convert the wife and everything else will fall into place


worked for me
Good plan. Can you talk to my GF about her affection for the Barn?

[jneesy]

oh if she's a barn fan youve got bigger problems

[Dr. Pepper]

The Catholics are big on tradition. They tend to do the same thing that they have always done. There is comfort in that, but if you are headed down the wrong road or going the wrong way, then tradition just gets you deeper and deeper into trouble. Just where is the Clemson road going to take your precious little girl? What is she going to learn? Who is she going to date? Who is she going to marry? What is she going to wear?

While the Methodists also honor tradition, they also hold that scripture, reason, and experience are essential if we are to truly understand our place in life. While we all might be led astray for awhile, scripture reminds us of a loving God who offers grace. Reason allows us to discover solutions to our problems and to know that there are more excellent ways to travel, and experience allows us the individual freedom to discover God's Kingdom in the midst of our own journey.

Now, while I would never want to be critical of anyone's religion, I believe that all religions teach that our highest calling and most important job in life is to raise the next generation. We must teach by word and deed those things which are eternal, honorable, respectful, and true. We cannot just go our own way or we eventually end up at the end of a dark dead end street.

What options will be available to your precious child if she is a Gamecock? Think ahead, man. Is not the future filled with hope? Are not the possibilities limitless? Will she not look great in a little black dress instead of an orange suit?

Choose this day who you want to be and to serve. You can choose Death Valley. You can choose to be a part of a small isolated group of people who have little respect outside of the northwest section of the state. You can choose to worship the memory of Howard, Pell, Hatfield, West, and Ford. Choose who you will be.

As for me and my house. We will be Methodist and Gamecock.