All-purpose, running Tim Tebow sucks/is a deity thread!

It's obvious the networks created enormous ill will for Tebow before he even took one snap in the NFL, and that isn't his fault. But it's also something that goes back to childhood: Nobody loves a goody-goody (or his accountant). So he's a moralist. Big whoop. Every person takes a stand against one kind of thing or another. His appears to be alcohol and sins of the flesh.

 

The networks did? The network I watched yesterday was openly cheering for him. Making every excuse they could conjure for three quarters, then screaming in ecstasy after the comeback.

 

The networks created resentment by giving him a halo in college.

I guess nothing less should be expected. He's making them a pile of money.

We're going back over the same trodden ground. I appreciate what you're saying.

 

It's strange how certain college athletes get deified by the networks.

Hansbrough is the closest other example I can think of in recent years.

 

Nobody gets it more than college basketball coaches.

 

Manning got quite a measure of that too -- they particularly like being able to sell the story of the guy who said no to the money and came back. In truth, neither Tebow nor Hansbrough had an option to take the money, at least not in any meaningful way.

 

Alex Smith was taken first overall, matriculated early (and began master's work even before he was drafted), fulfilled his Mormon mission. By all accounts a fine young man who loves his mama, loves Jesus, and America, too.

There wasn't the same enthusiasm to make him look good. Why? Because he's parsley. He was never the kind of personality that was going to break people into two different camps.

 

I don't think Alex Smith ever did a Mormon mission. I seriously doubt it since he spent three years in college and was still in the NFL by age 20.

He also didn't win a Heisman or a national championship, was never even close to the list of top college football players in the country, and didn't play for a program that was on national TV every week.

 

Actually Smith was among the top college football players in the country.
He was a Heisman finalist (finished fourth). And under Smith and then head coach Urban Myer the Utes were pretty good for a few years. Smith was 21-1 and won the 2005 Fiesta Bowl.

 

Yeah, OK, that's certainly comparable to a player who won a Heisman, had two other top-five finishes and won two national championships. Seriously man, you're comparing what was a little-known but very good QB in a lower-tier conference to arguably the most decorated player in the history of the sport.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/12/12/tim-tebows-pastor-attributes-wins-to-gods-favor/

“It’s not luck,” Wayne Hanson of Summit Church in Colorado told TMZ. “Luck isn’t winning 6 games in a row. It’s favor. God’s favor.”

 

I recall Alex Smith and Utah being slurped pretty damn good by ESPN in the mid-00s. Not to Tebow levels, no, but it sure did get a little insufferable.