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3. I think NFL.com writer Jeff Darlington's piece out of Denver last night gives you a good view into Tim Tebow that you may have heard about but didn't know how it worked. Each game, home and road, Tebow has as his guest a young person who has gone through some medical or personal struggle, and win or lose, he spends 15 to 30 minutes with the person and his/her family afterward. On Sunday, after the loss to New England, Tebow met with brain-tumor victim Kelly Faughnan and her family. While Tebow and Kelly spoke, her father said to Darlington: "I can't begin to tell you the impact he's had on my daughter. She's very positive, and she tries so hard, but she's had a struggle. Tim Tebow has built her self-confidence up so much -- taught her to believe in herself -- that when I see people criticize him, I'm just dumbfounded. I don't get it. It's almost incomprehensible to me. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't want to see an athlete use his position and platform to do good for people." And that's Tebow. Forget his religion, forget his politics (if he has any). He's a good person who does good things. He's not the only one, and we in the media are remiss pointing out what other players do. But that shouldn't be a criticism of Tebow. I've found him genuine, as the dad says.
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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."
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Great story, and I agree w/ the sentiments expressed. I don't get the animosity toward the guy. They did a mik'd up on NFL live yesterday for this game against Chicago, and I don't think I have ever heard a more positive player, or a more natural leader.
Much rather have guys like that representing the sport than, say, the Suhs & Harrisons of the world...
I think he's great for the NFL and wish him nothing but success. Have no problem with his faith and never thought he really flaunted it like some people say.
This is why i truly believe BILL would have drafted tebow in the second round. The fire on the field and heart off it reminds me of a classic patriot guy.
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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."
It's a subtle difference, and one that I don't think that your average football fan appreciates or even cares about for that matter, but I think the animosity is not really for Tebow. Instead, it's animosity toward people that project their own stuff on Tebow, or perhaps even for the projection itself. Then, of course, there is the outrageous hype machine. I think as Patriots fans, we're pretty well positioned to understand how coverage can ultimately have a severe rebound effect. It really didn't take the Patriots long to go from beloved underdogs with a genius coach to reviled. Some of the Tebow backlash is that same story in microcosm. It's not his fault that he's been annointed by the hype machine, yet, he'll suffer the backlash. He seems like a genuinely good dude, who makes the world a better place. But he's also been cast, by central casting, as the good looking white Jesus dude who plays the most popular position in sports and won some games late, and in 24 hour media/sports coverage 2011 America, there is simply no way that won't be polarizing.
The media -- and in particular in politics and entertainment -- simply loves to build people up to tear them down. They do this, because we all demand it. We are, fundamentally, cannibals when it comes to hype of any sort. As soon as the media starts to run a story that goes anything like this: "Are we covering X too much?" -- you know that X is going to get some backlash.
But, all that said, Tebow has far more fans than detractors. I was at the Cardinals game yesterday, and in between plays, they show out of town happenings. Every time they mentioned the Patriots game, and announcer said the word "Tebow," a huge cheer rippled through the crowd.
I do kinda root for him but I still don't like his 'in your face' Christianity. I mean, c'mon, we all know what he believes, is it really necessary for him to thank Jesus at the beginning of every interview? Suppose an athiest football player started his interviews by saying "I want to thank evolution and Richard Dawkins that there is no God", we'd probably all think that guy's a complete tool, and we'd be right.
Long story short, if someone's Christian I'd be a whole lot more impressed with them if they spent time helping others rather than talking about how they're a Christian. Tebow actually does walk the walk, which makes me respect him, though I think he'd actually be a whole lot more effective if he talked less.
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I do kinda root for him but I still don't like his 'in your face' Christianity. I mean, c'mon, we all know what he believes, is it really necessary for him to thank Jesus at the beginning of every interview? Suppose an athiest football player started his interviews by saying "I want to thank evolution and Richard Dawkins that there is no God", we'd probably all think that guy's a complete tool, and we'd be right.
Long story short, if someone's Christian I'd be a whole lot more impressed with them if they spent time helping others rather than talking about how they're a Christian. Tebow actually does walk the walk, which makes me respect him, though I think he'd actually be a whole lot more effective if we talked less.
That is who this kid is and has been his whole life.
Perhaps you should read the link from NFL.com, he spends time bring people with severe medical problems to game and spends time with them afterwards.
The Tim Tebow Foundation and CURE International are teaming up to build a children's hospital in the Philippines, where the Denver Broncos quarterback was born.
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The Tebow CURE Hospital in Davao City on the island of Mindanao, a particularly poor area of the Philippines, will be a 30-bed surgical facility focusing on orthopedics.
Tebow said Tuesday that although he's getting ready for a big game against the New York Jets on Thursday night, "ultimately that (hospital announcement) might be the coolest thing I'm doing this week."
Tebow's parents have been missionaries in the Philippines since 1985.
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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."
It's weird, really, that I've seen far more complaints about the animosity towards Tebow than actual animosity towards Tebow. In fact, I haven't really seen any real animosity toward him at all. I've seen some people question whether he deserves as much credit as he gets for the Broncos' success, but anyone who mistakes that for animosity has their terms pretty fundamentally mixed up.
As soon as I saw him walk over to carter and give him a pat on the helmet while he was down and give him a few words it made me realize this an excellent young man. He may not have the god like arm () of Brady but regardless of his actions on the field he seems like a genuinely good person.
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