I read it the second time...and I asked the same question to myself now *:-( *
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Oliver Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > The Daily Lobo? Badman, where ever did you find this? And, just who is > Damian Garde? J > > > > Oliver Barry CRS,GRI > > Real Estate Broker > > Bob Parks Realty > > 1517 Hunt Club Blvd > > Gallatin TN 37066 > > Phone: 615-826-4040 > > Fax: 615-822-2027 > > Mobile: 615-972-4239 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *[email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, September 28, 2009 2:26 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [gatornews] [DailyLobo.com] Tim Tebow, America’s sweetheart > > > * * *[image: Daily Lobo] <http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/>* *Tim > Tebow, America’s sweetheart* > > By Damian Garde <http://index.php/search/?a=1&au=Damian+Garde> | DAILY > LOBO > > Tim Tebow is a remarkably detestable football player. > > There’s the endless media fawning, the squeaky-clean image, the > dumbfounding Heisman acceptance speech and, of course, the God complex. > > Tebow, the bruising, gee-golly face of college football, is the ambassador > from a world of early bedtimes and rubber wristbands. After winning two > national titles quarterbacking the Florida Gators, Tebow became the > proselytizing poster child for everything annoying about his sport. > > On the field, he’s a bizarrely upright, unstoppable rusher, and he’s > averaged 31 touchdowns through the air in the past two seasons. He’s equal > parts Joe Namath, Joe Jonas and Jimmy Swaggart. > > In short, he’s the bro messiah. > > So, on Saturday, when the Chosen One took a nasty shot, clanked his head on > the way down and lay motionless on the field, I should have felt some tinge > of schadenfreude. But I didn’t. > > Hard as I try, I just can’t bring myself to hate Tim Tebow. > > On the one hand, listening to Tebow is a bit like driving behind a Hummer: > maddening, uncomfortable and ideologically offensive in a way you can’t > quite put your finger on. But on the other hand, you can’t blame the sun for > rising. > > To most people, a postgame interview might not seem like the proper place > to explain that God has a plan for everyone and that your motivation in > throwing footballs at people is to get to heaven. But for Tebow, a man who > was raised by missionaries and spends his spring breaks spreading the Gospel > to Third-World kids, a career in football is just an extension of the family > business. > > Furthermore, the guy’s entire biography reads like a parable. While his > mother was pregnant with him, she came down with amoebic dysentery while out > building mud huts in the Philippines. Her doctor recommended she terminate > the pregnancy, because having a child would put her life at risk. But she, > of course, refused, bringing into the world a brutal football force, > smashing fellow human beings on Saturday and getting up for church on > Sunday. > > That story, along with other tearful testimonials of Tebow’s general > blessedness, is just a glimpse at the culture in which he was raised. If you > were told your entire life that you were a walking miracle, wouldn’t you > start to believe it at some point? > And as much as Tebow rarely passes up an opportunity to plug the Book of > John, it’s hard to tell which came first: Tebow’s postgame preaching or the > sports world’s fascination with his divinity. > > Would a reporter ask Colt McCoy if he was saving himself for marriage? > Would ESPN speculate that Jacory Harris asked Jesus for some downfield > blocking? Tebow fields all manners of nonsensical questions and, in a sense, > his willingness to bind faith and football for his interviewers is kind of > endearing. > > As tempting as it is to snicker when Tebow explains that Jesus “already > tweeted enough; we just have to look at it,” there’s no pretense to his > madcap preaching. The guy’s just doing what he knows: saving souls and > winning football games. You can’t hate an athlete for being honest with > himself. > > So, when Tebow gets to the NFL and turns every postgame presser into a > revival, it won’t bother me. Unless he gets drafted by the Cowboys. > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions 2008 National Football Champions | Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
