Analysis: Are The Saskatchewan Roughriders A Values-Based Religion

1. Are the Saskatchewan Roughriders a values-based religion?

The purpose of this paper is to examine the Saskatchewan Roughriders. It will examine the subculture and its relationship to public ownership in Saskatchewan.

Reading the " Rider Pride Palpable from Cradle to Grave" has allowed me to think how much the Saskatchewan's Roughriders team govern the Saskatchewan’s society's way of life. The football, the Saskatchewan Roughriders team is such an integral part of the culture today at the Saskatchewan. they take for granted its significance in everyday lives. Alternatively, it even also played a vital role in stimulating economic expansion in Saskatchewan and it is now becoming an increasingly important part of the Saskatchewan economy.

Although they are based out of Regina, the Roughriders represents the entire province and attract fans all throughout Saskatchewan. Alternatively, it even also played a vital role in stimulating economic expansion in Saskatchewan and it is now becoming an increasingly important part of the Saskatchewan economy. Zakus supported the fact that Rider Nation subsidize to building a new material reality of community and identity and stated the following “With a fan base drawn from amongst the roughly one million residents and diasporas of expatriate fans, the Roughriders have survived many financial and personnel problems. Fans from every comer of the province support the team and many proudly wear the team’s green and white colours.” (Zakus, 1999). Like religion, sport is big business. To make a point people need to acknowledge that sports make hundreds of millions of dollars in profit each year, whether from ticket sales and corporate sponsorship or from tithes and pledge drives like a religion. As well, like religion, sports feeds people’s seeming need to belong, to be part of a group to create ways to clearly label and categorize and separate oneself and one’s group from the rest of the world. To start, I am Canadian-Korean, and I love living in Canada, but when it comes to football, I am a hard fan of the Korea any time they play. As an avid sports fan, there is nothing

David Émile Durkheim is the well-known sociologist who is well known and concerned to promote peace harmony and reconciliation. Émile Durkheim defined religion as "a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden -- beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church all those who adhere to them.". (Durkheim, 2008). To make a point Emile Durkheim believed that society was a religion and that “religion affected the establishment of society to such a degree that the two were inseparable.” (Durkheim, 2008). This statement could be related to traditional belief systems of religions and to sporting events, especially Saskatchewan Roughrider football. Within football, belief is an important part of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and culture. Every game, thousands of Saskatchewan people, hold faith and belief that their team is the best, that their faith will see them through. Overall, this concludes that both religion and sport have a recognised set of beliefs that its followers must adhere to. For instance, we can explore that Saskatchewan fans are holding faith in their team in games, just as Church participants are expected to look to their faith in times of need. As it is clear that