Traveling the world to capture the rituals, believers, and holy wars that make sports special.

Across three seasons, this series travelled all across the world to show the myriad of ways that people’s relationship with sports can only be described as religious. Featuring rodeos and Friday Night Lights on the Texas border, triathlete nuns and cancer survivor mountain climbers, NASCAR legends and a baseball team made of prisoners, Religion of Sports cuts to the heart of why sports matter.

The Iron Nun: Sister Madonna Buder, a nun in her late 80s, has competed in more than 300 triathlons, 40 Ironman events, and is known as “The Iron Nun.”

Follow That Line: Tracking Sarah Cooper as she bikes across America, trying to break a long-standing record and battle the elements and her own limits.

God in the Machine: In the American South, races take place on Sunday afternoons—right after church gets out—and everyone wears their Sunday best.

The Promised Land: High schoolers travel across the Mexican-American border every Friday night in order to play a game of football.

Hold Fast: A world famous mountain climber promises a cancer survivor that he’ll help him scratch off an item from his bucket list.

The Space Between: With motorcyclists driving over 200 miles per hour, the Isle of Man TT is known as the world’s most dangerous race.

Partners

Religion of Sports was co-produced with Dirty Robber and was released by DirecTV’s Audience Network.

Credits

Gotham ChopraExecutive Producer
Tom BradyExecutive Producer
Michael StrahanExecutive Producer
Shane Elrod Executive Producer
Kate ReganExecutive Producer
Martin Desmond Roe Executive Producer
Constance SchwartzExecutive Producer
Michael Strahan Executive Producer
Chris UettwillerExecutive Producer
Chris LongExecutive Producer
Victor BuhlerExecutive in Charge of Production
Andrew SachsSupervising Producer
Giselle ParetsCo-Executive Producer
Matt RoeStory Producer
Meghan CirilloPost-Producer