I don’t know what to say. This is such an amazing accomplishment.

First, I’d like to thank my parents for always believing in me and for their incredible support. Most importantly I’d like to thank God for giving me the chance to accomplish all this.

What is it with athletes, movie stars and the like continually thanking God or Jesus for their success?

I must have forgotten that God obviously cares who wins the Super Bowl and the Oscar for best picture, while equally caring little about the losers.

Last week, Formula One driver Michael Schumacher presented the Pope with a 1:5 scale model of his Formula One car to honor the Pope for his defense of human rights, which put the Pope “in the pole position in the roads of humanity.”

Schumacher hopes to take the emotions from this event and turn it into motivation and success in the future.

Apparently I really need to meet this guy.

I think it is wonderful that the top Formula One driver has presented the scale model of his car to the Pope for the good he believes the Pope has done over the last 26 years, but I fail to see how it will help him with continued success.

No matter how we feel about religion, it is undeniably a large part of our society.

We see President George W. Bush ask God for the strength to make good decisions and of course we heard Bush dust off his inaugural address with “May God Bless You.”

My obvious question is to ask John Kerry what he asked God for during the campaign. The strength to pick a side and stick to it might have been a good request.

Away from the political arena we have the story of football players winning the Super Bowl and baseball players winning the World Series and promptly thanking God.

Of course God, Jesus, Budah, the Kabalah, take your pick, should be thanked for providing inspiration in the marvelous victory.

However, it always seems like God himself has reached his hand down and helped the football through the uprights or Jesus has resurrected and made a guest appearance to help the pitcher throw one final strike in the game.

My question as stated above still stands: what has God done for the opposing players?

Did God somehow prevent a player from jumping higher and blocking the fieldgoal?

Or did God shine a little heavenly light into the batter’s eye to prevent him from seeing the ball?

For every Tom Brady out there who can thank God for his two Super Bowl wins, there are 31 other quarterbacks who should curse God.

Do we really think God only helps the winners?

I guess you also have to win a major championship to be able to go to Disneyland.

God plays the role you choose for God to play in your life.

If that somehow helps you win or suffer through a tough defeat then that is wonderful.

However, by no means is God the football God or the politics God.

As the Super Bowl quickly approaches, I wonder what God will be doing during the game.

Maybe God watches it on a big screen with Walter Payton commentating, maybe God sends angels down that take the form of humans and report the results via walkie talkies, or maybe God worries about bigger problems in the world.

Whatever God chooses to do that day, one thing is for sure: God will get part of the credit for the win.

And for the losers, hopefully they will continue to have faith, maybe next year God will be a little nicer to them.