Well let me be the Grinch here then. I don't particularly care about his charity work during what is supposed to be the most important game of his career. That was not a good day at all for an NFL quarterback.
If he doesn't want the media all over him maybe he should do his good deeds anonymously and quit drawing attention to himself as a football player for everything in the world that doesn't have to do with playing football.
There are quite a few Patriots that spend a lot of time helping sick kids and doing all manner of community work for the disadvantaged without the need to draw attention to themselves. I think we're living in the most narcissistic time in the history of the world. It's nice to help sick kids. You had an awful day, you need to work like "heck" this offseason if you ever hope to be an adequate NFL quarterback.
I don't like or dislike him, he's a running quarterback and will have a few years to prove he can transition or fall by the wayside. I don't feel I need to like, or dislike everyone who is prominent, I'm from a different generation where we had the option of not noticing or caring about most people, other than enjoying there work.
That's where I think you have it backwards. He's not drawing attention to himself. He's drawing attention to others and
being altruistic.
As you said we live in a narcissistic time and I think it's a good time to have someone like that on national TV to spread a much bigger message. Tim's not really pushing Christianity. He's pushing doing good deeds for others and not being selfish.
That's awesome no matter how you look at it. He's not asking people to go to church. He's not preaching. He's
doing good deeds. In fact he's doing more than what most preachers do. They talk about it. He does it and displays it. He's definitely showing where it all comes from, and it came from his Christianity and his religious beliefs, but those beliefs whether you consider them "religious" are also ethical beliefs. I think they were ethical and moral beliefs before they ever became religious.
He does display one important attribute though. Believing in a higher power. I have always been very philosophical and maintained my atheism for most of my life but you do run into some situations, at least I have, when believing in yourself is not enough.
Believing in yourself is good but that can lead towards narcissism and it requires that you never stop believing in yourself. To get back up, to really get back up, is to get back after you stop believing in yourself. And when you get to those moments, well it becomes impossible if you are your own source of lift. You need a little bit of help. If you've never been there, then I think you have never fallen. Now some people in weak state of minds flock straight to "God" and buy into it completely. But it's not necessary.
He's right in that if you believe in a higher power, not just yourself, you might just end up having even more success. You have a "higher power". It doesn't have to mean religion, or God as most people refer to him, but something greater. And even Brady displays this attitude he just believes he's made for greater things.
What does Brady believe in? I don't really know. And maybe he doesn't either. But he believes in something. He believes in something greater than himself. I think it takes more than that and you have to believe in something greater than just yourself to really get there. To be a team player and a great leader you have to believe in something greater than yourself. I think marriage kind of works the same way too honestly. I do know that after that 2007 super bowl, Brady did fall. And he had to believe in something greater to be in this position once again and play at this level winning divisional games once again. It's very well possible Tebow could have had an effect that rubbed off on him too this year and reminded him of himself when he came into the league. We'll never know.
