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Religion is defined as a set of beliefs and practices that is centered around supernatural and moral claims about reality, human nature, and cosmos. It also depends on traditions, writings, history and mythology along with faith. Unless the football team starts believing that their nails hold a greater power and start praying to them I would think that this is just an act of superstition.

No. It isn't implied religion UNLESS football and nails are "worshipped" or "revered" as a god would be (idolatry). Some people actually worship "the torture stake (self-sacrifice)", and that is idolatry. Placing undue reverence on any physical (tangible) object or intangible mentality (vain philosophy, sports, music, science, etc. .) is either implied or actual religion.

If by "implicit religion" you mean devoting ourselves more to "keeping of nails" and the "New craze for Football" (or any other human activity) than we do to God, the answer is "Yes".  If those activities are merely interests and don't take the place of the love of God in our hearts , then the answer is "No".  It all boils down to what's in our hearts, which ultimately only God can judge.

Football a religion?  Nails? 

One at a time.  Football is not a faith, as faith is optimistic and football is based on downs.  And come to think of it, so are geese.  Is that why so many parents writhe in agony as they find that they invested $100,000.00 in the kid's education and only made a silly-goose Quarterback?

As to nails.  Note that most homes are made with boxes of 16d (sixteen-penny) nails, which means that someone along the way deducted that sixteen pennies from the quarterback and made a whopping profit of NINE WHOLE CENTS!

Now, if we consider that this flow of un-consciousness prose continues, could those nine scents include Chanel # 5?  If so, then the $100,000.00 invested in the kid's football degree could pay a handsome reward.

So, let us consider the old addage (and subtract-age) that "Rabbits multiply by dividing."  At least, that is the way it seemed at the Volkswagen dealership . . ..

But I digress, which could lead to indigress-ion.  So, next time, be sure to take some of the world's most depressing antacid/antidiahrreal: Pepto Dismal, the next time someone starts running off at the . . . keyboard.