Sports, Spirituality, and the Role of the Underdog 1
There will always be a place for underdogs, like the New York Jets in Super Bowl III, in sports.
There’s more to life than sports, for sure, but there’s more to sports than sports…
There’s a lot of life in sports. As a theologian, psychologist, author and more recently also a financial strategist, I have identified the psycho-spiritual-political dimensions of rooting for the underdog, being the underdog, and the ways in which spirituality, psychology, and even irrational belief can trump size, talent, and win/loss records, and how these dynamics and principles can be useful in the quest for success and victory at various levels and in various arenas, not the least of which, economic.
Any sports fan knows there’s a reason the “worst” team vs. the “best” team still have to play the game. There is a reason why upsets occur, more often than we might think, and why sports pundits and odds makers who ignore the intangible factors in a match-up, do so at their peril.