World Series: Father Edward Looney prays for a Game 2 Brewer win

Now, one of the people that was there is a Catholic priest by the name of Father Edward Looney, who joins us now on Fox 6 Now. Father, appreciate you taking some time to join us on Fox 6 Now. Welcome. Yeah, thanks for having me. And as you told us via email, you actually had Mass tonight. So I guess let's just get this out of the way. Did anything in the homily include any Brewers references? I did make a brief reference to the Brewers. The Gospel talks about loving God. And so I said, it's evident tonight that you're setting this out right first by coming to Mass before the Badger game, before the Brewer game tonight. So, yes, they got a little shout out. And I told the people at the end of Mass, a lot of people were asking me, are you going to Milwaukee after the Mass? I'm like, I can't do that. I have morning Mass, but I am going to Tampa. So I'll be there. All right. And I know you're in Shawna, but at what church? Yeah, Sacred Heart Parish in Shawna, Wisconsin. Absolutely. Okay. Okay, so channeling the Brewers inside Sacred Heart Parish. But you posted a reel, and I love that you're so active on social media. It's fun to connect with so many different people. Obviously, that's why we love it. And came across your reel today about how you were able to score tickets to Game 1 minutes before first pitch and minutes before Fox Sports kind of unveiled its pregame festivities. So if people didn't see it, explain it as best you can how you were able to get in. Yeah, so I just showed up at Miller Park. I parked a mile and a half away. I started the walk there. I met up with some people I knew that were tailgating, and I thought to myself, I'm just going to watch, you know, on SeatGeek, on whatever app, and see if tickets go down. That's how I got into the second game of the championship series. So I'm like, maybe that'll work this time. The tickets weren't dropping, and I was really feeling defeated. And all of a sudden, someone said, well, go over to the tickets. You know, they have some tickets left, and I get in line. it's 6:48 and they all they say there's no tickets left they're all sold out you know you can leave and so I just stood in the back kind of waited and all of a sudden there was this noise they have tickets they have tickets and so a lot of us kind of swoon over there and we snatch up these tickets because Tampa Bay had released their visitor tickets at 655 so I went from 648 feeling like i gotta go to a sports bar in the area to 707 being in my seat so it was quite the swing and as i understand it it's not like you were paying astronomical prices that we've been seeing in the secondary market like these were reasonable that they were face value and if that isn't an indication that again there's a holy spirit involved here i don't know what is yeah yeah it was truly incredible you know just to be there and to have it all fall into place Like, I had done a comedy bit online just saying, like, if you want to invite a priest to pray with you at the game, to forgive your sins, like, my DMs are open. No one took me up. I thought maybe, you know, a corporate person might have an extra ticket or something. So I just thought I'd make the bold ask and do a little comedy bit. And people thought that was funny. And people were watching it all, you know, asking all week long, are you going? Are you going? Did you get your ticket? And so they were all super surprised when finally, like, here I am. I'm at the game. So tell us what it was like, what it was like inside to be in. I have to imagine there's an immense feeling of gratitude. Again, knowing that so close to first pitch, you're like, I don't know if I'm going to make it in. I'm going to have to find something else. And then you do get inside. I have to imagine, again, a sense of gratitude. But then after that, the baseball just kind of takes over. Yeah, you know, the other two games, I sat in like the 200 level and the 100 level by third base. and and this one was nosebleed section 400s like over by the uke statue and uh bird's eye view over home plate and i gotta tell you like i think they're the best seats that i've had watching the game you know from the different perspectives uh and uh met the people on my left on my right we all basically bought our tickets last minute so it was pretty incredible just to share in the camaraderie i went by myself i bought one ticket and so like you're high-fiving complete strangers you're just enjoying the game with each other so it really brings you together uh with all the people around you i love that and and there are rays fans again these were the rays kind of allotted section of tickets so everything was good there no issues yeah you know there weren't as many Rays fans as you would expect so maybe four rows down there was a lot of Rays fans i think there was a former player actually in the section from what i gathered from conversations i was overhearing uh but for the most part the Brewers and their fans overtook that section when they were released at the final hour or the final minutes all right well i would be remiss if we had you here on Fox 6 now and i didn't ask a catholic priest for a a prayer for Brewers good fortune and good luck here so i see again we had mass earlier tonight you still have your collar on hat is off i'll just do this take it away father well almighty god you're the giver of all gifts we thank you for the skills that you've given to all of these players we ask that the power of god might be behind the Brewers bats may we rejoice at every score help them to compete well and score more runs than the Rays and bring us to ultimate victory in this World Series through christ our lord amen amen and as my news managers like to point out and we pray for a sweep amen amen amen all right he's father Edward Ludy thank you so much for joining us here on Fox 6 now i really appreciate your time yeah my pleasure thanks so much go brewers go brewers indeed so