Tebow at Heart of Opinions on Religion and Sports

GoneGator    College Football, Florida Gators     Tim Tebow

A fledgling controversy is brewing down in Florida, and it revolves around Tim Tebow’s conspicuous placement of Jesus Christ at the center of his athletic pursuits (Tebow at heart of opinions on religion and sports | GatorSports.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, FL).

Let me say something right up front. I’m a Gator, and as such I am very proud of Timmy’s accomplishments as a Gator.

But I must side with my first editor as a sportswriter, Sam Cook, now a columnist for the Fort Myers News-Press, who recently wrote:

Religion — except for the ‘Hail Mary’ pass — has no place in sports. In Tebow’s case, he should play football and forget about us sinners for 3 1/2 hours every Saturday.

Amen, Sam.

The fact that you win or lose does not mean Jesus Christ, or any other mythical diety, is or is not on your side. You are not being rewarded, punished or challenged to do better.

You simply won. Or you lost.

Or, as Crash Davis said so eloquently put it, perhaps it just rained.

So leave your biblical passages in the locker room.

That goes for you too, Timmy.

P.S. It sure is interesting that the controversy is being stirred as Tebow plays the worst football of his career, isn’t it?

Fire Bowden? How About Fire Mickey?

GoneGator    College Football     Bobby Bowden, FSU, Mickey Andrews

Sure, Bobby Bowden could have spared himself all this grief by retiring gracefully a few years ago. But why isn’t once-vaunted defensive coordinator Mickey Andrews being blamed just as lustily for FSU’s slide into mediocrity? Just askin’.