Who says you can't combine sports and religion?

This appeals to my sense of the absurd.  Harris - why didn't you come up with this first?

Germany Abdicates World Cup Championship; Argentina to Assume Title

BRAZIL––The German National Team today stunned soccer fans across the globe with their announcement that they would abdicate the World Cup title, effective today. FIFA, the international governing body of association football, said today it has voted the largely unknown Argentinian National Team to assume the title of champions of the soccer world.

Read the rest here.  I laughed out loud at this; would have been even funnier if it hadn't cut so close to the truth...  (H/T Fr. Z)