Is Tebow’s “circus” a politically-correct way to justify “Christian bashing”?

Personally, I think when God Almighty inserted the aforementioned verse in the Bible, He had a person like Tim Tebow in His forethoughts. By all accounts, Tebow has to be regarded as a rather “peculiar” individual. Unfortunately, in Tebow’s young professional football career, teams tend to shy away from him because of the “circus atmosphere” that allegedly surrounds this guy – my question here is, “why”?

As a college quarterback with the University of Florida, Tebow was privileged enough to win both the Heisman Trophy (college football’s Most Valuable Player award), along with a national championship. But then again, there are a handful of past Heisman Trophy recipients and players who were a part of a collegian championship currently in the National Football League who don’t even get a fraction of the media publicity as Tebow.

Tebow did lead the Denver Broncos to the NFL playoffs two years ago, and then helped win an amazing first round playoff game against Pittsburgh Steelers. But that magical season came to a screeching halt the following week when Tebow’s current team, the New England Patriots, absolutely slaughtered the Broncos in the next round of the playoffs. But that was a year-and-a-half ago!!!

Another problem that NFL scouts seem to associate with Tebow is that he may have been a great quarterback in college, but he’s got poor “mechanics” to ever be successful in the pro ranks. But in that season two years ago, Tebow quarterbacked the Broncos to about 10-11 regular season wins, along with a win in the first round of the playoffs – that’s a heck of a lot than most NFL quarterbacks accomplish in their entire careers. Whether or not a “win” is pretty or ugly, a win is a win in my book, so what difference does it make?

It’s like the story of the Bumble Bee – according to the Principles of Aerodynamics, a Bumble Bee isn’t supposed to be able to fly. But nobody ever explained that to the Bumble Bee, so he just proceeds to go ahead and fly anyway.

I’d say, if Tebow’s quarterbacking “mechanics” are really that bad, keep letting him play in regular season NFL games until he starts losing. Getting slaughtered in a playoff game against the Patriots nearly two years ago doesn’t prove to me that Tebow is the worst quarterback in the NFL.

Since that time, Tebow hasn’t started an NFL regular season game or even played a “relevant” role in one. Last season, Tebow was Mark Sanchez’s backup quarterback with the New York Jets – a team which didn’t even make the playoffs. It seemed like after every loss, the media would ask Jets coach Rex Ryan if he was going to replace Sanchez with Tebow. Now after a long period of free agent signings, the Patriots decided to give Tebow a shot as its backup quarterback for future Hall of Famer, Tom Brady. As was expected, a whole media entourage peppered Patriots coach Bill Belichick with questions as to Tebow becoming the “new” quarterback should Brady, who’s now in his mid-30s, should have a string of bad games this season. Huh???

Where is this off-the-wall media interest on Tim Tebow coming from???

The guy does happen to be a devout Christian and blatantly shows his faith to God on the field either bowing down on one knee after a big play, getting caught on microphone trying to sing a popular Christian tune on the sideline, etc. Would most football fans feel much better about Tebow if he were addicted to Cocaine, or experienced 4-5 divorces, or had 4-5 kids out of wedlock? When sports fans or the media say that popular athletes have “an obligation to our society to serve as ‘role models’ for our children”, who’s a better “role model” for our youngsters than Tebow?

But the media is, in essence, attacking Tebow here by making him out to be “The Savior” when it’s clear that he’s initially signed-on to now his third NFL team as a backup quarterback. In other words, trying to make quarterbacks like Tom Brady and Mark Sanchez jealous and causing a schism amongst the various team members because Tebow, along with his supposed “circus atmosphere”, appears to be drawing the most media attention. And it’s not like Tebow is initiating all this attention to himself via “trash talking”, which many NFL players tend to engage in.

Compare and contrast Tebow with former Boston Celtic backup basketball player, Jason Collins. Collins, who’s now with the Washington Wizards, publicly announced back in April that he is a “gay homosexual”. Apparently, Collins is the first NBA player to make such a declaration. Major sports media outlets, such as ESPN and Sports Illustrated, painted Collins back then as a “hero” for making such a bold public statement like that. So why did America’s sports media cease to continue writing articles and/or broadcasting stuff on various aspects of Collins’ life??? There’s no doubt that presently, Collins is much more “relevant” than Tebow is, so how the heck did this “gay homosexual” backup basketball “hero” get to revert back to the proverbial woodwork in the media’s eyes?

Again, since Collins is merely a backup mediocre basketball player on a team that probably won’t even make the playoffs, it would probably be construed as “Gay bashing” to continue to give this guy more media attention that say, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, or Dwight Howard. And if the Reporter trying to publicize every single aspect of Collins’ life happened to be a Caucasian, then that would probably be construed as not only “Gay bashing” but “Race bashing” as well since Collins happens to be a Black guy. Can you say, “Double-Standard”???

And what about the dozen or so NFL players who have converted to Islam? How come we never hear about their religious testimonies in the media? Pro basketball Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (f.k.a. Lew Alcindor) converted to Islam in ’68 – which is 33 years BEFORE 9/11, yet even this guy’s Wikipedia page doesn’t even have the reason(s) he converted to Islam. It’s as if to say: Nothing to see here folks, just move along.

Perhaps it’s just a crazy conspiracy theory on my part, but is the American sports media, via Satan or the Devil, deliberately focusing on Tebow’s every single word and action here, hoping to catch him in a non-Christian type moment just so they can say, “Gotcha”!!! And, hypothetically speaking, if the media were to catch Tebow in a weak “natural man” Gotcha moment, will that somehow, in a backwards sort of way, prove that God does NOT exist???

FILE UNDER: Very desperate measures for very desperate people.