The team challenges various parish and high school teams, but turns down some offers, according to priest-in-training Christopher Welsh. "Sometimes it's just eighth-grade altar boys, and that's going to get bloody." The team has lost only one game, but thus far, no player has been tempted by a contract from the NBA.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is fielding a basketball team called "The Men in Black" made up of a dozen seminarians. It's an attempt to "promote priesthood in as positive a way as we can," Rev. James Barker, director of vocations for the archdiocese, told the Baltimore Sun. The team uses a fight song written by Sister Mary Luffy, which ends, "Pray, Men in Black, just pray you won't be black and blue tonight."
