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10 Responses to The Fastest Gets Faster
electronicmuse - December 19, 2011 at 8:50 am
Well yeah, somewhere along the way, the Patriots didn’t get “Tebowed.” It’s a bit early to erect a statue. How about just a little later into a “career?”
What is particularly obnoxious about “Tebowing” is the trivializing of both religion and football by implying that one’s athletic performance has been divinely authorized. God is a golfer–she has little interest in football. (Who can say me nay?)
dank48 - December 19, 2011 at 12:01 pm
Agreed, at least about the trivializing of religion. Murray Kempton got it right, writing about Joe Namath “destroying his body for a religion that to everyone else is only a game.”
Not that the Ten Commandments are a major concern of mine, but it never seems to occur to sports teams ostentatiously doing their devotions, just as their opponents are, that they’re violating the third one. The more thoughtful team members may be asking that they be allowed to do their best, but I’d guess that’s the minority on a football team, just as it is in any group of people.
I couldn’t care less about Tim Tebow or football itself, but it seems to me that if he’s praying for victory in a sports event, he’s taking his Lord’s name in vain.
3rdtyrant - December 19, 2011 at 12:16 pm
So, what does it mean after his miserable 41-23 shellacking at the hands of Brady and the Pats. “Tebow time” might just come to mean an egomaniacal religious type whose not always going to measure up. In the words of SNL’s Jesus, “tone it down a bit.”
dank48 - December 19, 2011 at 6:02 pm
who’s
racmonti - December 20, 2011 at 3:43 pm
This is the best commentary on Timmy I’ve seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul2dhNaQgxM
racmonti - December 20, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Dad bless you!
drphilthethrill - December 20, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Am I in the 1% that wants to see “Tebow” as the word of the year?
amperamp - December 21, 2011 at 10:30 am
In the hopes of quelling doubts about Tebow’s true desires and intentions, I believe he is using his success in the public sports realm as a tool to bring people to Christ, rather than praying to win football games.
Here is a clip from Tebow during an ESPN interview: “Because at the end of the day if all we’re doing is winning and losing football games and scoring touchdowns, then we really haven’t done a lot in our lives. But if we’re in the business of encouraging people, bringing faith, hope and love to those on their darkest hour of need as the mission statement of my foundation reads, then we’re really doing something successful with our lives. So I’m going to take the platform that football has given me and try to give back, make a difference and make this world a better place.”
There are many public figures who talk about God to bring attention only to themselves. However, the sincerity that Tebow emits, and the level and subjects of his conversation – to the point of ridicule – should be evidence enough that his intentions are wholesome and he believes in what he preaches – even if his maniacal fans distort what he intends.
electronicmuse - December 22, 2011 at 7:09 am
Football players using their notoreity to advance whatever agenda they have is like movie stars who imagine that their comments about politics have some kind of universal currency. “Tebowing” is simply a non sequitur . . . Of course, the media will always look for the sensational; thankfully they do “get over” just about everything . . . eventually. I can’t wait!
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