The Daily Lobo is the student newspaper for University of New Mexico. Damian seems to be a student writer that's facinater with Tim too.
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 29, 2009, at 6:11 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > Tim Tebow, America’s sweetheart > > By Damian Garde | DAILY LOBO > > Tim Tebow is a remarkably detestable football player. > > There’s the endless media fawning, the squeaky-clean image, the dumb > founding 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 c > an’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 dysente > ry while out building mud huts in the Philippines. Her doctor recomm > ended she terminate the pregnancy, because having a child would put > her life at risk. But she, of course, refused, bringing into the wor > ld 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 raise > d. 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 divini > ty. > > 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 “alre > ady 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 Cowboy > s. > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
