Sem Eye: The Pigskin Bible

4th and God!

As every football-loving Bible reader knows, nothing goes together like the gridiron and God. Just in time for the fall football season, Christian bookstores across the country have a present for you: the NFL bible cover!

Tired of carrying your Bible to church in that loser of a burgundy nylon Bible cover you’ve been toting around? Tired of being left on the sidelines for the good Bible “huddles” because the other guys in church don’t think you have what it takes? The NFL Bible cover shows them that you mean business, and business means football!

Your new pigskin Bible cover tells everybody that you have New Found Life as an official Official Witness to the glorious and spine-shattering truth of the Gospel. Who needs Bible thumping when you can have Bible rushing and tackling?

Next time your Bible study leader asks who wants to read a passage, you can rush to the front, call out those Psalms like Marino called out Dolphins, and spike that baby in glorious victory at the end!

The NFL Bible cover even comes with the words Romans 6:4 printed on it, which every Vince Lombardi fan knows is the Bible’s hardest hitting, longest passing verse in the whole Bible! Romans 6:4 says:

“We were therefore buried (like T.O. buries his opponents!) with him through baptism into death (like the death of any team’s game when Willie Parker gets the ball!) in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead (like Elway raised his hands after a touchdown!) through the glory of the Father (like the glory of the Super Bowl!), we too may live a new life.”

And speaking of the Super Bowl, have you felt torn about spending that Sunday getting ready for the Big Game instead of diving into the Big Word? Be torn no more – do both, with the NFL Bible Cover.

The NFL Bible cover is made of the finest PVC and fits “most large Bibles,” because in this game, there are no little men.

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