Pigskin

Whether the Redskins, sorry, the Commanders, can play football remains to be seen.

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Leviticus 11:7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

Unclean... In other verses it lists different animals as being an abomination, abhorrence, or disgusting for you to touch.

But what’s the penalty if you do touch them?

Verse 28: And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.

So the penalty for touching swine flesh is to wash your clothes, take a bath, and keep clean overnight.

No death penalty.

Doesn’t that make sense?

Don’t touch dead animals or dead carcasses unless you’re going to clean up afterwards?

Especially after blood, flies, larva, lice, and all other kinds of disease and decay are all over it.

When you cook, what are you supposed to do when you have raw pork or poultry on the counter?

Do you dress a turkey and then lick your fingers?

Here’s where the writers REALLY didn’t do their homework.

When footballs were first made, they were actually inflated animal bladders stuffed with things like straw to keep them firm.

Naturally, tossing around an inflated organ was rather messy and gross.

So, these early footballs were wrapped in leather to keep them clean.

Because pig bladders were easiest to find,

wrapping them in cowhide leather gave birth to the name "pigskin"

Even though a pig's skin was not used but the bladder.

In 1844 Charles Goodyear — yes, the tire guy — invented vulcanized rubber.

Ever since then, footballs were made with rubber bladders and cow or synthetic leather.

Anyone that brings up these arguments to justify their sin hasn’t done their homework.

Besides all that, God said so!

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