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

[YGBFKM]

The whole idea that Tebow is more worth rooting for because he's less likely to become embroiled in off the field transgressions bothers me if only if it seems to be an assumption based on the fact that he's a white, evangelical Christian.

Maybe rooting for another God-fearing athlete will make you feel better. There's room on the Ray Lewis bandwagon. Praise the Lord!

 

[Devin]

Let me preface this by saying that I have no problem with Tim Tebow the person. From the outside looking in, he seems like a nice, genuine guy with strong convictions.

However, I'm tried of all the coverage. It was one thing to have it just contained to the sports page, ESPN or sports web sites. But now it's spilled over into the mainstream, politics and the like. I can't get away from it now. Tim Tebow is a porn star being screwed from every orifice by the media and public at-large.

I'll be glad when this circus is over.

 

[outofplace]

The whole idea that Tebow is more worth rooting for because he's less likely to become embroiled in off the field transgressions bothers me if only if it seems to be an assumption based on the fact that he's a white, evangelical Christian.

Exactly. There are a lot of people here acting like they know the guy. You'd think a board full of sportswriters would know better.

 

[zimbabwe]

The whole idea that Tebow is more worth rooting for because he's less likely to become embroiled in off the field transgressions bothers me if only if it seems to be an assumption based on the fact that he's a white, evangelical Christian.

Maybe rooting for another God-fearing athlete will make you feel better. There's room on the Ray Lewis bandwagon. Praise the Lord!

Unless you (the royal "you," not you yourself) actually know an athlete, then how do you...know? How do we know that Tebow won't become Ray Lewis?

Hasn't almost every fallen-from-grace athlete (or celebrity of any ilk) started from grace?

Which is why I try to detach myself from thinking about (the purely speculative) personal reality of athletes when I root for them.

If I cover them, I know them a little better.

The United States sports scene is a Christian sports scene, more or less. People have prayed on the field or court, pointed to the sky and thanked/credited Jesus since I can remember, since I first became cognizant of sports as a thing. It never bothered me beyond the intrinsic disconnect between the idea of "sincerity" and the filter/opaque distance between us and them.

One of my favorite memories from high school was being on the field when my best friend, our quarterback, ran for a touchdown in the rivalry game at our rival's stadium. I had no impact on the play, but I was the closest person to him as he kept the ball on an option and beat everyone down the sideline. It was an intense, exihiliarating moment. When he got to the end zone, he took a knee and prayed.

I KNEW that was sincere, because he was my best friend. He was truly praying. He was truly thanking God. He wasn't showing off. He was just being himself and quietly celebrating his personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

I also tackled him immediately, because I was excited.

The weirdness of the Tebow coverage (and NOT of Tebow, who seems normal and maybe awesome, as a person) is the pushing of the religious angle. Not pushing religion "on" people, but the flogging of the meme that he is different somehow, or groundbreaking, because of his faith.

Tebow SEEMS like a good person. Even a great person. The only time I've "hated" him this season was when Denver beat Chicago, and that "hate" was sports hate, not personal. And definitely not a manifestation of religous bigotry.

P.S. The idea that God intervenes to dictate football outcomes is, to me, deeply blasphemous.

The fact that it is treated seriously in the coverage of Tebow is the kind of ridiculous crap that any SE at any small-college monthly would kill immediately.

It's also illogical. Since a vast majority of the players at any given time on an NFL field are Christian.

And I'm sure Tebow prayed during his losses, and meant it.

 

[IllMil]

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7455943/believing-tim-tebow

"Even though sometimes-fatal Wegener's granulomatosis has left Bailey with only one lung, [Tebow's visit] took her breath away."

Well Rick, the disease didn't give her three lungs. Not sure why we should be surprised by anything taking breath away from someone with one lung.

 

[da man]

Does Tebow drink? I'd like to have a beer with him.

You'll be a better person for it.

 

[Deeper_Background]

Primetime Tebow Time: Will Broncos-Patriots Set TV Ratings Records? (Poll) for the divine: > 50 million! 56.71%


> 40 million 26.97%


> 30.896 but < 40 million 13.57%


> 23.7 million but < 30.896 million 1.8%


for the crazy: < 23.7 million, a new low 0.95% http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/01/13/primetime-tebow-time-will-broncos-patriots-set-tv-ratings-records-poll/116439/

 

[Double J]

Just because. Who is this girl? Wow.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Just because. Who is this girl? Wow.

He's now attracting women with smaller breasts but better looks, as far as his viral photos go.

 

[JC]

How 'bout this:

I'll root for him because he has a smaller chance of beating his wife/girlfriend, fathering illegitimate children, landing on police blotters and pissing away his earnings than anybody else I could root for instead.

And that's not even taking into consideration all the good things he might do off the field.

If I'm rooting for laundry anyway, might as well root for the cleanest one, eh?

But far more likely to molest an altar boy

 

[Double J]

Just because. Who is this girl? Wow.

He's now attracting women with smaller breasts but better looks, as far as his viral photos go.

That's what I was thinking. Not that I would ever kick the other girl out of bed for eating crackers, but this one is definitely more attractive.

 

[MileHigh]