Tim Tebow and the "Are you a virgin" question

Knowing what I do, I find the explanation in that column a bit disingenuous. I also find it interesting that he asked the question in the Radio room not the print room. If you have ever attended SEC Media Days, you know the difference. I would imagine Travis would prefer to be viewed in the same light as the 500 members of the print room, not the 40 in the radio room. I think he would call the 500 his "peers" not the 40. I would be interested to know in which room he spent the majority of his time this week (outside of the Tebow visit).

 

The question also makes a difference with the backstory.If you're going to ask the question in a proper way and do a story on it, it's one thing.
If you're yukking it up with the two clowns on radio row who play to the lowest common denominator --OH LOOK HOT CHICKS AND COLD BEER -- and bragging how your going to do it to show him up, it's another.
He's a clown and the pair of radio Jethros are even worse.

 

I actually think it's a reasonable question considering everything Florida and Tebow have done to try to convince everyone that Tebow walks on water.

I was bothered more last year when the Florida beat writers followed him into the bathroom than I am about this question.

 

You're probably right, but the backstory was sophomoric, not reasonable.

 

I don't recall an exception or addendum in the Bible during discussions of adultery.


Tebow was asked. Tebow answered. Time to move along.

 

Bianchi commends Travis.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/sports_bianchi/2009/07/reporter-who-asked-tim-tebow-about-virginity-should-be-commended.html

 

The stupidity surrounding some people's obsession with Tim Tebow has sunk to new depths.

 

Agreed. I've heard so many people bashing on Tebow, and it's sickening. Tebow doesn't call the pressers, he just shows up when he's told to. He answers the questions he's asked. I'm pretty sure he doesn't call the writers asking them to write about him. The writers call him.

Bash the media, not Tebow.

Back to "the question." No chance I'm asking that question, nor do I think it should have been asked necessarily. But Tebow dealt with it like a champ. Good for him.

 

My goodness, what's wrong with this business? Must we all live in the cesspool that the tabloids do?

What would the reaction be if a reporter had asked a female athlete the same question?

 

If this is an OK question to ask, then it's pretty simple to see why some media types get the labels they get.

Tebow wants to talk about something personal, like his faith? He'll put it out there, and then take questions about it.

Feel free to ask about his expectations on the field this season, how he's handling life as the biggest thing in college football since Red Grange, or whatever. But unless he brings up his sex life on his own, be enough of a considerate human being not to ask a bullshit question like that one. Asshole.

 

Agreed. We've crossed the line from covering the athletic event to getting into people's personal lives in areas that having nothing at all to do with their athletic performance.

I don't doubt that people are curious --- which is sort of an indictment of society right there --- but to ask those sort of questions totally unsolicited crosses the line.