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i find it kinda strange that so many hate tebow; to me he's a really decent guy who deserves a chance to suceed or fail like anybody else and frankly i's rather watch him "tebowing" than some jackass doing a dance in the endzone...........why oh why does'nt that bother anyone?
A Saucy Wench
"Tim tebow is the jamie moyer of football."
No. No he isnt.
Jamie Moyer deserves much more respect than that. Jamie can put the ball where he freaking aims it.
He might be the Paul Abbot of football. Dude got something like 17 wins one season while walking every other hitter
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"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
we're all different.
If a person scores a touchdown it's sometimes (special teams player, defense player or a reserve) one of the happiest moments in their life. Why would I care if a cornerback runs in a TD and does a little dance? He's happy.
If someone choses that moment to do a little personal thing, then that's fine also. Sometimes when people are happy they want to dance. Sometimes they want to pray. Sometimes they want to point a the sky or drop to a knee and let you know they are thanking god or whatever. It's like 26.2 bumper stickers. It's just noise and people wanting attention. If it makes you happy and you're not hurting anyone, who cares?
Why is it sideways?
One game doesn't make a career. For all we know, we might have just seen the best passing performance of Tim Tebow's life, a fleeting glimpse into what could happen if Tebow got to play backup free safeties with excellent pass protection every week. With that being said, if any other rookie quarterback from the past three years put up numbers similar to what Tebow did against anything resembling the Steelers pass defense in the playoffs, we would be falling all over ourselves to describe it as the first big sign that a new franchise quarterback had arrived on the scene. It's time to file Brady Quinn's name away and stop the debate about whether Tebow deserves to keep the Denver job for 2012. After a year in which Tim Tebow occasionally got more credit than his play deserved, on Sunday, Tebowmania lived up to every bit of the hype.
You'll ruin your knees!
Thanks, Jeff. That was a good article and quite possibly the longest link I have ever seen.
""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)
Reasonable takes on Tebow are hard to find. I don't know exactly what to make of the guy. It's kinda like the presidential campaigns or something like that--the hype is so big and crazy that it totally obscures my ability to make any sort of judgment--even when I am watching him play.
Sometimes they want to point a the sky or drop to a knee and let you know they are thanking god or whatever. It's like 26.2 bumper stickers. It's just noise and people wanting attention. If it makes you happy and you're not hurting anyone, who cares?
I think this misstates why Tebow "Tebows".
"I want you to pray as if everything depends on it, but I want you to prepare yourself as if everything depends on you."
-- Dick LeBeau
No. No he isnt. Jamie Moyer deserves much more respect than that. Jamie can put the ball where he freaking aims it. He might be the Paul Abbot of football. Dude got something like 17 wins one season while walking every other hitter
or maybe the R.A. Dickey of football?
He doesn't throw very hard, nobody knows where the ball is going, he's a born again Christain who does unique things to shine the spotlight on him more than it normaly would. Mr. Dickey is going to go climb Mount Kilimajaro now in what is apparently an effort to call attention to human trafficking.
The Limping Jogger
He's not your run of the mill NFL player. Perhaps with a few off season drug busts, assault charges, DUIs and nightclub shootings he'll gain the love and respect of the media ?
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Prince of Fatness
i think that a healthy Steelers team wins that game, but you have to play the cards that you are dealt.
i can't argue with the Steelers strategy, take away the run and the short stuff and make Tebow beat you with the long ball. The problem is that is exactly what he did. Over 30 yards per completion. Damn. Nice game by Tebow.
Not at it at all.
does it misstate why someone wears eyeblack stickers with John 3:16 on them?
I agree. No one but Tim Tebow knows why he chooses to 'Tebow' but everything in his life seems to indicate he is genuine in his faith. I'm not much of a football fan or a religious person but I certainly don't think it's coming from the same place as the player doing a dance after a TD or a dance after a sack (remember Mark Gastineau? - that's about the last era I watched a lot of football!).
or maybe the R.A. Dickey of football? He doesn't throw very hard, nobody knows where the ball is going, he's a born again Christain who does unique things to shine the spotlight on him more than it normaly would. Mr. Dickey is going to go climb Mount Kilimajaro now in what is apparently an effort to call attention to human trafficking.
Interesting to note that each of the 3 mentioned (Moyer, Abbott and Dickey) are all former members of my beloved Seattle Mariners. It's all becoming so clear...
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this is so well said! it really makes me wonder where we are headed as a society
Menace to Sobriety
It's like selling arms to both sides in a war. The media over hypes either the religious aspect or his lack of technical skills ad nauseum, then do the same when he performs either poorly or well. People either watch hoping he fails, or watch hoping he does well. Either way, people are watching.
Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go f*** himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.