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Tebow at Heart of Opinions on Religion and Sports
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?
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I have to disagree. Few people dislike evangelical Christianity more than I do, but as a free speech absolutist, I’m all for Timmy being able to display whatever message on his eye black that he wants.
But it has to go both ways: you may have heard about Ohio State’s Terrelle Pryor putting Mike Vick’s name on his eyebblack and getting a ration of shit for it. Those Christians who defended Timmy’s bible verses would have to defend some other player putting “Jesus Sucks” on his eyeblack if they wanted to be consistent, but of course they wouldn’t care about consistency, as they’re stupid evangelicals.