NEW YORK — Sports is religion. Star players and teams, even stadiums, inspire the same fervor and devotion in sports fans as the world's great religions do in their followers.
That's the intriguing idea behind AT&T's original sports documentary series, "Religion of Sports," executive-produced by Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and former Giants star Michael Strahan (Nov. 15, 8 p.m. ET on DirecTV and AT&T U-verse).
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When you stop and think, the two former Super Bowl XLII opponents are spot-on. Consider:
— Sports has its living gods such as the LeBron "The Chosen One" James of the NBA champion Cavaliers
— It has saints such as Vince Lombardi of the NFL, Jackie Robinson of MLB and Dale Earnhardt Sr.