For those of you lucky enough to have skipped the article, here&#x27;s a summary:<p>A few academics have noted that religious participation is declining in America, interest in spectator sports is increasing, and the two have a few broad similarities. Therefore, football is the new American religion.<p>I don&#x27;t care much about sports or religion, but frankly this article is laughable. They even troubled to throw in the perfunctory &quot;correlation does not equal causation&quot; admonition, as if it makes their line of reasoning any less spurious. Pure junk.