{"id":168,"date":"2009-10-11T21:11:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T02:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/breaking-news\/did-singletary%e2%80%99s-cross-hex-the-49ers\/"},"modified":"2009-10-11T21:11:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T02:11:34","slug":"did-singletary%e2%80%99s-cross-hex-the-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Did Singletary&#039;s Cross Hex the 49ers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> Normal   0         false   false   false                             MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <\/xml>< ![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <\/xml>< ![endif]--> <!--    --><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n<mce :style>< !    \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable \t{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\"; \tmso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; \tmso-tstyle-colband-size:0; \tmso-style-noshow:yes; \tmso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; \tmso-para-margin:0in; \tmso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:10.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-ansi-language:#0400; \tmso-fareast-language:#0400; \tmso-bidi-language:#0400;}  --><\/p>\n<p>I watched the other games from the stands so this was the first one I saw on TV, and as a committed secularist I noticed to my horror that Mike Singletary was wearing a cross draped on his muscular bosom.\u00a0 As much as God made little daisy petals, that goddamn cross hexed the 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t an NFL head coach wearing a cross on TV on federally licensed channels a violation of the First Amendment or something? A violation of NFL rules about fair play &#8211; if one coach brazenly invokes God&#8217;s favor is that fair to other coaches who go buck-naked secular?<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers were supposed to be a speedboat but Sunday there were a rowboat with a leak. Only Singletary&#8217;s flashing the cross can explain this disaster; God righteously evened the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>At least the last losing coach, Mike Nolan, only wore ill-fitting suits at home. Singletary pushing the cross in the face of non-Christian fans might be appropriate for the coach of Southern Methodist University, but not a San Francisco team that is named after the 49ers of the fabulously irreligious Barbary Coast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <em>a 49er fan<\/em>.<\/mce><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched the other games from the stands so this was the first one I saw on TV, and as a committed secularist I noticed to my horror that Mike Singletary was wearing a cross draped on his muscular bosom.\u00a0 As much as God made little daisy petals, that goddamn cross hexed the 49ers. Isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.argonaut360.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}