San Francisco Chronicle sportswriter Lowell Cohn did not write many columns about the God Squadders. He was a columnist, not a beat writer, so he wasn’t in the Giants’ clubhouse every game. Besides, he had to also write about the San Francisco 49ers, the Oakland Raiders, the Golden State Warriors, and the Oakland A’s.
But when he did approach the topic, he did it with gusto.
He wrote a column, “Can Satan Save the Giants?” on May 7, 1980, and it made quite a splash.
On the day the Chronicle published the column, the Giants were in last place in their division with an 8–18 record. In his satirical piece, Cohn concluded that God must hate the Giants.
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