The John 3:16 Man - From Fame (Somewhat) to 3 Life Sentences

[packman]

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"Throughout the 1980s, Stewart traveled 60,000 miles a year as a full-time spectator, living out of his car, getting stoned, and using television’s obsession with athletics as a vessel for promoting his faith. In doing so, he made the Bible passage a fixture of professional sporting events."

"Stewart would end up undermining with some increasingly eccentric behavior. The signs gave way to stink bombs, and his cheerfully peculiar persona gradually morphed into a mania that, in 1992, led to an eight-hour standoff with a Los Angeles SWAT team.

By the time he was handed three consecutive life sentences in 1993, Rainbow Man had understandably lost much of his luster. Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Sally Lipscomb described him as another “David Koresh waiting to happen.”


More of the strange journey at:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/500515/unbelievable-life-john-316-sports-guy

[lunasun]

1. I dont get what this action at a sports events is about . I thought it was a wierd way of wishing to

win like saying a prayer but the article makes it sound more like a personal call out of faith for others to hear . I need help understanding the action anyone?
I always found this strange at sports either way but that's just me and it's a free country where you can paint you body all blue or wear all kinds of amulets of good luck at a sporting event .
Lots of players have some rituals for good luck
Or are they saying it is like calling out Allah Akbar at a game?

[FSogol]

2. I never felt he cared about sports or a team, wasn't he just trying to get free tv exposure?

[struggle4progress]

3. ... When Stewart, a former marijuana farmer, initially conceived the Rainbow Man in the late 1970s,

it was to draw attention to himself ... "Instead of going to Hollywood and waiting in casting lines for years, I would be world famous overnight . . . and have complete control over my life." He carried a battery-powered TV to see where the cameras were pointed, sneaked into the best seats and positioned himself for maximum exposure ...

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/19/sports/sp-crowe19