Thank God in the end zone and get flagged for … unsportsmanlike conduct?
Sad but true … the video is from KOMO TV via Gatewaypundit. The back story is almost as interesting as the video itself. Just another High School football game, but the ref sure made it, umm, newsworthy?It’s a big TD in a Washington State high school football playoff game this past weekend, and Ronnie Hastie Jr says he just wanted to give thanks.
Hastie said he’s always performed the gesture in games and no one has ever said anything about it.
“What I’m trying to do is give glory to God. I’m trying to give him honor instead of myself. It’s something I’ve done because I feel real blessed when I get in the end zone, especially in a game like that,” Hastie explained. “Jesus is the number one thing in my life…He’s given me the ability to play football and be on this great team. He’s blessed me with all this. I feel it’s right to give back the credit where it’s due.”
Silly boy. Give thanks to God? In public? Watch my little mobsters at this incredible display of bad sportsmanship.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIi2H4zMZW8&feature=player_embedded
The kid is actually pretty sorry about what happened and Ronnie told the Dori Monson Show on Wednesday, “A rule is a rule. It’s in the rule book and I want to play by the rules.” Good kid. BUT, that’s not the best part of the story. This is.
If Hastie scores a touchdown in the state championship game Saturday against Archbishop Murphy, he said he’ll wait until he gets to the sidelines to point to the sky.
Archbishop Thomas J Murphy is a Catholic High School in Everett, Washington. Their motto is “Inspiring and Developing Christlike leaders”. Now that, my friends, is true divine retribution.
5 Comments
The website's content and articles were migrated to a new framework in October 2023. You may see [shortcodes in brackets] that do not make any sense. Please ignore that stuff. We may fix it at some point, but we do not have the time now.
You'll also note comments migrated over may have misplaced question marks and missing spaces. All comments were migrated, but trackbacks may not show.
The site is not broken.
"I’m trying to give him honor instead of myself." That is awesome, but not likely to fly in a nation that is concerned with only honoring the self and removing God and anything to do with Christianity. There's a difference between "God fearing" and "fearing God"…ultra lefty libs are so consumed with removing God from our society to quell their fears of something bigger than themselves.
I wonder if the same thing would happen if a player proclaimed "Allahu akbar!!" in the end zone?
What a remarkable young man!!
My kids are in high school and it's unbelievable what the kids of this generation are struggling with…the broken homes, the violence, the chaos, the mixed messages, the confusion about who they are. Ronnie Hastie Jr knows exactly who he is, Who he belongs to, and Who to give all the credit to.
I pray my son is as "unsportsmanlike" as Mr. Hastie Jr.
This kid gets it. The funny thing about the rule, that it is probably there to stop selfish celebrations and showing up the opponents. I would bet every kid on the opposing team did not feel that Hastie Jr. was doing either. It's a sad state of affairs to see this. Are the kids at Notre Dame or BC allowed to do this??? Hmmmm…
Look I understand why the rule was put in. No one wants to see the entire offense doing the Ickey Shuffle, but where's the common sense? Perhaps if more players in college and the NFL got on one knee and gave little love to the One who blessed them then the rule would be used accordingly. Besides the refs can't throw that flag forever.