JOHN 3:16

Last week there was an obituary for a Dr. Frank Jobe who was an orthopedist dealing with sports medicine and athletes' injuries. In 1974 a Dodger pitcher, Tommy John tore an elbow ligament and Dr. Jobe suggested a new and untested procedure - to transfer a tendon from the wrist to the elbow to act as a ligament. The operation was successful and Tommy John resumed his major league career for another fifteen years.
Many other athletes were benefited with this procedure in later years but it became known as "Tommy John Surgery." Which brings me to the title here - for several years we could observe a sports fan sitting in a front row holding a big sign reading JOHN 3:16 - he seems to have faded from the current scene. While we know that this is a spiritual reading from the New Testament, I jokingly described it as Tommy John's ERA (earned run average.)
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