Controversy
While Champions for Christ has seen some success in recruiting big name athletes such as Chicago Bear's Curtis Enis, Los Angeles Laker A. C. Green, Washington Redskins cornerback Darrell Green, and quarterback Mark Brunell, it has not been without controversy.
1998 saw CFC make national headlines when a number of NFL teams asked the security arm of the National Football League to investigate CFC over concerns that players were being taken advantage of financially. Champions for Christ was said to be steering NFL players to an agent tied to the group—Brunell’s then-marketing representative, Greg Feste, was accused of putting the fear of God into Chicago Bears running back Curtis Enis to get him to switch agents.
As well as media scrutiny CFC has also been questioned by watch groups, such as the National Values Center: "It's an entrepreneurial religious group. It's a new start-up business, quite frankly, What raises a question for me is when a religious organization uses Christianity as a front for making money. It makes me kind of queasy." Don Beck, National Values Center
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