Not long ago, our think tank was discussing the future of human sports and space. Specifically sports in orbiting space hotels, exhibition matches, the future of the Galactic Olympics, and the types of sports which might be played in off world space colonies. Yes, I agree it is a somewhat interesting topic, and indeed esoteric in nature. Of course, a think tank must consider out of this world ideas, innovations, concepts, and inventions - after all, that's with think tanks do. Okay so let's address this question shall we?
Sports Magazine Subscription - Get your dad a monthly subscription for his favorite sports magazine, newsletter, or catalog. By now, you should already know which reading material your dad prefers to read. There are magazines that feature football or baseball, and catalogs and newsletters for golf.
sports catalogs are also very famous among people of different ages. These catalogs are filled with the images of historic sports legends and the description of their career. The people feel very excited to read the stories of their beloved sports stars. These catalogs are a sense of motivation for the upcoming players. They read the inside stories of their favorite sport legends and by this they give rise to a reason to mimic the same way their legends did in their lives.
Why don't team owners, coaches, team doctors, use their enormous clouts to play their children in these evidently lucrative sports? Other businesses, including preachers, train their children in the family enterprise, why not as dangerous sports players? Could it be because they the truth or, to paraphrase Ben Franklin, society writes injuries in dust and benefits in marble?
Like all other things in life, we are to take sports captive and make them obedient to Christ. Sports viewing and sports participation can become transforming activities when we view sports as one of the ways that God is extending to us His grace and in recognizing that it is a means to long for the greater joy that only Christ can give.
Sports are one of the things that help us to do that. Playing a sport requires discipline and the disciplining of the body for sports can carry over into our spiritual lives. Sports require determination, delayed gratification, a toughening-up of the body. Sports can also teach how to work with a team, how to submit to authority, how to encourage those not as naturally gifted as others, how to hit hard. And they teach patience. Even time on the bench can be sanctifying.
In conclusion, there is not one premier manufacture of sports cards. Each individual collector will create their own preference for which cards remain higher on their list than others. Some will prefer more autographs, while others football seek the lowest serial number they can find. Seeking out the true 1/1 cards! But I think we can all agree that no matter the preference, the quality of trading cards produced today is by far superior to those of the late 80's and early 90's.