I agree, I'm not slamming the dream. But the post I was responded to referred to Tebow's "willingness to do anything to win." That's what I was disagreeing with. "Doing anything to win" in a team sport includes the willingness to give your all in a smaller role to help the team -- not just doggedly pursuing your own grand dream.
That statement is fine in an abstract universe. But, in, for example, the NFL, where there is no loyalty from Team to Player, a guy could change positions and still be cut in a heartbeat.
Why should a guy take heat for perceiving himself in a specific way and "doggedly pursing...[his]...own grand dream" by simply saying, "OK, I'd rather not play if I can't play the game the way I want to play it?"
Tim Tebow chose getting cut over trying, perhaps successfully, perhaps unsuccessfully, to change positions to fit himself into a system that might or might not have cut him in a few weeks at his new position anyway.
He made that decision. It's his life. I have no issue with it.
But, then people will say, "But why couldn't he have been like Julian Edelman, who accepted that he wasn't going to be an NFL QB and changed positions, electing to play a "smaller role to help the team?" Why couldn't Tebow have done the same thing?
The answer to that is very simple.
Different people make different choices and choose different courses in life. We have no idea what would have happened to Julius Edelman if he had chosen a different course for his life.
Maybe he would still be in the League. Maybe he'd be selling insurance in his hometown of Woodside, CA. Maybe his life would have gone in a completely different direction, maybe better than, maybe not as good as the course he chose. We just don't know. We do know that it worked out well for the Patriots and himself over the past few years.
