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Tim Tebow: Unfair Ridicule?
Brent Andrew Saltzman
December 07, 2009
If you clicked the link for this article, then chances are you saw it. It´s been the focus of a thousand blog entries and has already made rounds on Youtube. Tim Tebow, Florida´s quarterback who many consider (for some reason) to be the greatest college football player of all time was crying on the sideline. It´s made national headlines, it´s been the bunt of jokes, even by me. But, after watching it again, and again, and again, since you can´t really visit any sports news site without seeing it, and examining the career of the illustrious signal caller, I´ve changed my position.
Leave the kid alone.
I used to think it was all an act; the good-guy thing. Tim Tebow, quarterback of the best team in the country for 3 out of 4 years, Mr. Awesome, everyone loves him. So, as an average guy, and following the path of many other average writers in the country, I was forced to cover up my own insecurities by making fun of him, which was relatively easy to do, since we, as a country, seem to hate good guys and love villains (like…say…Terrell Owens).
But I was wrong. Even when Alabama was shamelessly mocking the Florida Gators on the sideline, Tebow didn´t get up and throw any punches, he didn´t trash talk, he didn´t tell the refs to throw a flag. Instead, he shed a few tears, and while he´ll be berated and mocked for this for years to come, the realization is that all this shows is that Tim Tebow cares more about the game than possibly anyone else in it. And, for all extensive purposes, wanted it more.
My senior year of football in high school, we lost a heartbreaker to Woodbridge High School on a 39-yard field goal by the opposing team´s freshman kicker. And hell, I cried on the bus. And when I got home. And every day for about a month every time I thought about that football just getting over the goalpost.
Don´t get me wrong, I´m not a Tebow fan. I think he rides the wake of the forgotten Chris Leak´s national championship. In fact, it bothers me when I hear people talk about Tebow´s championships when one of those clearly belongs to Leak, Florida´s excellent quarterback before Tebow even got there. Will he be a factor in the NFL? I think so, if he´s given the right system and enough time to grow, but he´ll never put up Manning-esque numbers.
But that´s not the point of this article, I´m could care less about the guy´s draft status, particularly now with Bradford and Clausen entering. The object of this article is highlight the fact that while Tebow has set himself up for a few months (at least) of exaggerated, unfair ridicule for shedding a few tears after arguably the toughest loss of his career, the reality is that you, I, anyone else would´ve done the same thing. And if you wouldn´t, then that only means one thing: You don´t care as much as Tim Tebow, and absolutely don´t deserve to win. Nobody has played harder over the past 4 years and nobody wanted that game more than he did, which is more than I can say for anyone else.
There you go...it's about passion.
Leave the kid alone.
I used to think it was all an act; the good-guy thing. Tim Tebow, quarterback of the best team in the country for 3 out of 4 years, Mr. Awesome, everyone loves him. So, as an average guy, and following the path of many other average writers in the country, I was forced to cover up my own insecurities by making fun of him, which was relatively easy to do, since we, as a country, seem to hate good guys and love villains (like…say…Terrell Owens).
But I was wrong. Even when Alabama was shamelessly mocking the Florida Gators on the sideline, Tebow didn´t get up and throw any punches, he didn´t trash talk, he didn´t tell the refs to throw a flag. Instead, he shed a few tears, and while he´ll be berated and mocked for this for years to come, the realization is that all this shows is that Tim Tebow cares more about the game than possibly anyone else in it. And, for all extensive purposes, wanted it more.
My senior year of football in high school, we lost a heartbreaker to Woodbridge High School on a 39-yard field goal by the opposing team´s freshman kicker. And hell, I cried on the bus. And when I got home. And every day for about a month every time I thought about that football just getting over the goalpost.
Don´t get me wrong, I´m not a Tebow fan. I think he rides the wake of the forgotten Chris Leak´s national championship. In fact, it bothers me when I hear people talk about Tebow´s championships when one of those clearly belongs to Leak, Florida´s excellent quarterback before Tebow even got there. Will he be a factor in the NFL? I think so, if he´s given the right system and enough time to grow, but he´ll never put up Manning-esque numbers.
But that´s not the point of this article, I´m could care less about the guy´s draft status, particularly now with Bradford and Clausen entering. The object of this article is highlight the fact that while Tebow has set himself up for a few months (at least) of exaggerated, unfair ridicule for shedding a few tears after arguably the toughest loss of his career, the reality is that you, I, anyone else would´ve done the same thing. And if you wouldn´t, then that only means one thing: You don´t care as much as Tim Tebow, and absolutely don´t deserve to win. Nobody has played harder over the past 4 years and nobody wanted that game more than he did, which is more than I can say for anyone else.
