This Is Don Shula's Orange and Teal Earth

Until they drive the spike through my cold, beer-soaked hear I will be "talking Super Bowl."

In Fear and Tembling the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard defines pure faith as absurd. In Kierkegaard's reasoning there is only one single example of pure faith and one clear instance of its reckoning.

Kierkegaard believed that the singular moment of faith in the history of mankind was the moment when Abraham brings his son Isaac to the mount as sacrifice, as god has asked him to do so. God had promised to Abraham that his son would become great and father many nations. God had promised a blessed life for Abraham's son. Thus god's request for Isaac's life was contrary to god's own previous law and and this makes the entire situation paradoxical for a reasoning man.

Abraham wasn't a reasoning man. He was a man of faith. The contrary notions do not occur to him. Only the will god and his need to execute it does.

Soren Kierkegaard has been dead for well over a hundred years. He never knew that on January 1st, 2010 there would be another instance of faith, surpassing even that of Abraham's. I mean, he controlled his own playoff spot. All he had to do is obey god.

We Dolphins fans however must rely purely on faith. I know the Phins will go to the playoffs because I have faith in them.

If they don't, well, then I'll go worship Baal or something.

GO PHINS! Let's beat the shit of the Steeler's and their extra gay mascot.