"The Christian Sportsman" is 1970s amateur film that aired on community-access television in Austin. A parody of The American Sportsman—a contemporary television show in which celebrities go hunting and fishing with sportscaster Curt Gowdy—the film follows two evangelists, Rev. Tommy Utt (played by Skip Slyfield) and Brother Heumann (Red Wassenich), on a hunting trip with Jesus (John White). The Heumann character in the film came from "The Brother Heumann Show," a fake evangelical radio program for the phony Church of the Coincidental Metaphor that Wassenich and his friends produced. It was broadcast on Mexican radio station XEG in the 1970s. The group of Austinites decided to make an amateur film about their radio character after teaming up with an aspiring filmmaker from Fort Worth, who provided the filming equipment, shooting location, and talented dog.

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Skip Slyfield Red Wassenich John White Brother Heumann The Church of the Coincidental Metaphor TFC amateur film 1970s 1970's