I blame Jesus.
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update: and also that 20-yard game-winning TD run — the longest TD run by an NFL quarterback to win a game with under a minute to go in the history of ever.
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God? Laughing his ass off.
Stupid lifeydoodle.
I could watch that over and over.
I laughed my ass of when I saw that Tebow ran for the winning touchdown.
Then, there’s the following about Tebow:
http://tinyurl.com/72y9u4b
Me? I’ve got myself.
Missed it completely. Wow.
Football player
Just to add to the underlying theme.
Blake
I don’t really follow NFL, but for heaven’s sake, that article was jawdropping. “Goody two shoes”? It’s an old cliche that the NFL is referred to as the National Felons League and Tebow is hated for actually being authentically a good guy? WTF? And he’s got a coach trying to sabotage him?
Good lord.
GReat comeback and end drive. ESPN “experts” still think Teebow is worse than Hitler and will never win another game in the NFL. I really wish there was a Fox news type alternative to ESPN. Next up : Keith Olberman gives his us his opinion of Teebow. Riveting!
…except of course that non-atheists aren’t free to express their thinking — not if the atheists have anything to say about it.
Happy times in Denver. The media people are beside themselves right now and still can’t let go of the one and only model they have in their heads for how professional football is to be played. The Jesus stuff is just icing on the cake.
Minor point, perhaps it was overtime but I seem to remember Michael Vick having a much longer run to end a game.
He said the allowing the cross to remain on Camp Pendleton property is “exploiting my service in order to gain special privileges for Christianity and that’s not fair to me.”
Because it’s all about you.
Darlene,
This is one of the tamer articles. At least the writer somewhat grudgingly admits that Tebow has something going on.
I believe Chris Collinsworth came right out and said that he though most of the Tebow hate was due to Tebow’s Christianity.
though = thought
I saw Tebow bench-press an entire planet, once.
I saw Tebow go to bended knee after the game, in a circle of other players, Bronco and Jet.
Softened my stone heart, it did.
Later i heard a reporter ask how he felt about all those people that hate his guts, and Tebow said he learned in college not to worry about what he can’t control, and he’ll let them be them and he’ll do him.
I’m starting to think Tebow is ESPN’s Palin.
He is, Lee. The media hates him because he ruins their pose that their cynicism is the way of the world, not Tebow’s optimism.
the longest TD run by an NFL quarterback to win a game with under a minute to go
This always kills me about sports statistics: a long chain of conditionals and you can make ANYTHING into a record.
Not to diminish anything from the actual accomplishment, of course. I just find it endlessly amusing.
I’m starting to think Tebow is ESPN’s Palin.
I’m afraid that anyone who talks about Jesus openly in certain circles—politics, sports, academia—and isn’t doing so ironically or cynically, is going to get his or her face shot off.
Those of us raised religious find out pretty early that the “goody two-shoes” is a traitor to humanity and needs to be taken down a couple pegs so that others don’t feel so sinful in comparison.
I speak, to my chagrin, more as one who has taken a few shots than one who got them.
Tebow’s going to kill the West Coast offense. Just watch. We’ll be back to watching the Lombardi Sweep. All good, in my opinion, look what happens when you lose a QB in a WC offense.
He’s underestimated, that’s always a good place to be.
(especially if you have a defense that can pull your ass out of the fire)
Correction: longest TD run by by a lefthanded NFL QB and former Heisman winner who has opened a hospital in the Pacific rim and who has appeared in a Focus on the Family ad aired during the SuperBowl, to win a game with under a minute to go.
The Tebow hate by ESPN is almost as amusing as their dogged refusal to acknowledge that the Cowboys and Tony Romo suck ass.
Doesn’t he also hold the record for most rushing yards by a NFL QB and former Heisman winner who has opened a hospital in the Pacific rim and who has appeared in a Focus on the Family ad aired during the SuperBowl, in his first four games?
Statistics are cool…
Oh, that should read: appeared in a Focus on the Family ad where he assaulted his own mother that aired during the SuperBowl,…
Or was that Betty White? I can’t remember.
Plenty of athletes talk about Jesus. I don’t watch football much, but I watch a lot of baseball and players are always making the sign of the cross when the go to bat. I say the haters need to spread the hate around and not heap it all on Tebow.
The Tebow jerseys that have his number and “Jesus” where Tebow’s name is supposed to be are pretty obnoxious, though.
Von Miller must be wondering what he needs to do to get some credit.
Von got a national interview after the game. He’s a stud. With Dumervil on the other side, and Bailey and Goodman in the secondary along with Dawkins, the Broncos D is starting to look good. Bunkley was a great pickup at D-Tackle.
I mean, wow.
Yeah, I agree, Jeff.
It’s fun to think of Tim as a giant, better version of Billy Kilmer, less the profanity and alcoholism.
Everyone of Tebow’s critics are okay with individuality providing said individuality falls within acceptable parameters.
How dare Tebow be such a renegade and toss all the individual stereotypes out the window.
I watch a lot of baseball and players are always making the sign of the cross when the go to bat.
They prolly still go out and party hearty with their teammates and conquer their share of wimmens and don’t quote actual scripture or come out against abortion and stuff.
In other words, the only ones who get persecuted for talking about Jesus are the ones who mean it.
Or maybe it’s because he talks about it all of time like no one else is familiar with this Jesus guy. Sort of Pharasee type behavior, the way I was brought up.
The sport needs the Tebow. What with all the mess at Penn State, after the NFL’s summer lockout of greed…hell, even Peyton Manning’s not playing right now. Tebow is a ‘point of light’. Hopefully, though, not a supernova that collapses into a pinhead.
Maybe he gets that impression from the company he keeps.
I’m going to link this on the outside chance that maybe one of you hasn’t see it before.
Overlap, not interlock, I see.
Something’s…odd…about that photo, bh. Look below the purple shirt, at the trunk. It’s been modified, no?
The Tebow jerseys that have his number and “Jesus” where Tebow’s name is supposed to be are pretty obnoxious, though.
I’d trade you a a couple dozen Jesus fans for Raiders’ gangbangers.
maybe it’s because he talks about it all of time
Honest question — does he really talk about it all the time or is he asked about it all the time?
It’s like “journalists” that have abortion on the brain when grilling conservatives .. and then people say “why don’t those godbothering conservatives STFU about abortion?”
Darlene,
If you go to the replay of the final touchdown that Slart linked to, there is a link to the post game interview. The interviewer asked Tebow (if memory serves) what comes over him during the last 5 minutes of a game. Tebow very quickly said “First off, I’d like to thank my Lord and savior..” and went on from there.
It’s very brief statement of credit to God and Tebow doesn’t seem to keep harping on the subject.
When I heard Tebow’s statement, I was impressed by the fact that Tebow kept the remarks about faith brief and immediately started talking about his teammates.
I’m sure those who don’t want to hear about God, this counts as “talking about God all the time” whereas I thought it was great the way Tebow mentioned God and then moved on. Tebow certainly didn’t come across as excessively preachy. Of course, the link only showed 20 seconds of the interview so it’s a subjective opinion on my part.
I really have a terrible eye for that sort of thing, Serr8d. There could be an alien in the background and I wouldn’t catch it.
I’d trade you a a couple dozen Jesus fans for Raiders’ gangbangers.
Are they fans of Jesus or fans of Tebow’s who are equating him with Him? It’s creepy and profane, in my opinion. I know it’s not the same thing, but there were PSU fans on their knees praying on the sidewalk in front of JoePa’s house last Saturday. Are they praying for JoePa? Or PSU? Why are they doing it in front of his house? It smacks of idolitry.
Like my wisecracking friends in Philly used to say, “Hail Mary, full of grace. Why aren’t the Eagles in first place?”