Do You Believe in Miracles?

Ideally, I would have saved this gag until the end of the year during Bowl season, but for fans, there never is a wrong time to relive a sport team's greatest hits.

Go Deep

Football season is upon us. Today's gag demonstrates why football coaches discourage their team's receivers from taking philosophy classes. (It also provides a ready excuse should your team fail to win a game.)

Hot Potato

The thing is: Elder Steele is an offensive lineman. That means Elder Van Dyke can hold the football all day long and he'll just walk in front of him making sure nobody touches him. Van Dyke has nothing to be afraid of here. 

(Unless, Elder Steele is going to be practicing some sort of drill where the ball is fumbled and recovered by the defense. Then Elder Van Dyke should be very, very worried.)

(I clearly have no idea what football drills look like.)

A Football Thing

Elder Van Dyke would know all about football injuries too. Some of those blisters on your thumb from playing too much PlayStation can be brutal!

Missionary Huddle

Sports in general probably take themself too seriously, but it is football most of all that is too full of itself. Football is constantly using language that compares it to war (about as serious a subject as there is). And yet the whole goal of the game is to move a comically misnamed "ball" from one side of the field to another. One place football terminology definitely doesn't make sense is in the mission field.

Headbutt

An excessive amount of headbutting before last night's Super Bowl might be the only explanation for the Kansas City Chief's play.

Touchdown Celebration Dance

It's Super Bowl week! Who do you got? The Kansas City Chiefs or the Tampa Bay Bucs? (Or COVID-19?)

Are You Ready for Some Football?

When Steve Young was the quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, I was a huge fan. While on my mission, he lead his team to a Superbowl victory. Unlike these two missionaries, I didn't know anyone who was watching the game, so I was only able to hear about it long after the fact.

Go Long

I bet Tanner Mangum would have completed that pass.

(And speaking of BYU football, here's a gag from fellow Mormon cartoonist Kevin Beckstrom that I wish I'd come up with.)

Rah, Rah Missionary Work!

(Here's another comic strip, courtesy of deseretnews.com.)

Football Headbutt

In honor of yesterday being the Super Bowl and everything, I thought I'd run a strip about Elder Steele (Elder Van Dyke's companion who played football for the fictional Idaho A & M). I didn't watch the game, but I assume the Eagles won, right?

(Today's Deseret News strip.)

Are You Ready for Some Football?

I have little more than a passing interest in professional football. I probably haven't watched a game start to finish in over a decade, but I know, without a doubt, that the Philadelphia Eagles are going to win the Super Bowl this season. It's my 100 percent, iron-clad lock of the season.

You see a couple of years ago, I included a Green Bay Packers t-shirt in one of my gags and that season the Packers won it all. It's a one-to-one correlation, I include a NFL logo in a gag and that team wins the Super Bowl. I've tried not to abuse this magic power of mine, but today's gag kind of demanded a NFL logo.

Alas, none of my readership would ever do anything so sinful as gamble, but is it gambling when it's a sure thing? (Yes.)

Two-Year Mission: A Pretty Good Weight Loss Program

I know many missionaries are worried about gaining weight on their mission (especially in the MTC), but I suspect there are far more missionaries who end up losing weight than gaining it. Usually, this isn't a problem unless the weight loss is due to parasites or you're an offensive lineman.

Football Season is Just Around the Corner

I try not to push my sports fandom on this blog because I realize that you can be a good Latter-day Saint and still root against BYU, but holy cow! Have you heard the latest on BYU? They're kind of dominating the news right now.

I would think even the most ardent support of the Crimson Club would be following this story with some interest. Who knows, maybe he'd even be willing to venture out into the south foyer second hour to talk football with the ward's members of the Cougar Club.

Are You Ready for Some Football?

Thanksgiving is all about punishing ourselves. From playing football in the early morning hours at the end of November, to eating so much pie that it literally hurts, to watching the Dallas Cowboys win more often than not.

Annual turkey bowls are the strangest of Thanksgiving traditions, though. Wouldn't a sparkler bowl played on the nice, warm 4th of July make more sense? Maybe we play it on Thanksgiving so that we can remember to include "failure to lose any fingers to frostbite" to the list of things we're thankful for.