Mental Floss:
Throughout the 1980s, Stewart traveled 60,000 miles a year as a full-time spectator, living out of his car, getting stoned, and using television’s obsession with athletics as a vessel for promoting his faith. In doing so, he made the Bible passage a fixture of professional sporting events.
It was a noble effort—but one Stewart would end up undermining with some increasingly eccentric behavior.
If you watched sports in 1980s, you saw this guy in the background of major sporting events. I found him incredibly annoying and, while I never wondered or cared about what happened to him, the path his life took is tragic.
“Stewart decided that the best way to increase his profile was by drawing attention to himself at sporting events”
Before reading this article, I’d always thought he was just another needy, creepy, insecure believer in magic who needed to shore up his weak faith by advertising it.
But, sad as that would’ve been, the rest of his story is even sadder.