The New York Times Sees Tebow's Dark Side
Only the New York Times could see the dark side of Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow spending time with a brain-injured young man. In an article headlined "Curtain Closes on Tebow's Season, but His Sideshow Goes On," a reporter disparages Tebow for praying with brain-injured Zachary McLeod, 20, after the brutal loss to the Patriots on Saturday night.
After the game, Tebow had told reporters about McLeod and said that overall it hadn't been a bad day, depending on "what lens you look through." That was the first bad thing he did.
When Tebow and family prayed with the McLeod family, apparently the Times reporter tried to intervene and was asked to back off. He didn't take it well. He goes off on Tebow, mocking him for the game (apparently our offense is mostly to blame for our defense letting the Patriots score 45 points). The reporter gets into the mind of John Elway and at one point writes, "While Tebow has made his priorities clear that his faith comes first, Elway’s job demands that Tebow be the analytical secularist and stick to the science of football."
But the kicker is amazing. It pretends like sports teams just hang out together in mass, hugging and crying, for the 6 hours following a losing game. Has this sports reporter ever covered a sporting event before? Check it out:
As he always does, he thanked his teammates for their support and effort immediately after praising God. But one was left to surmise that he, the Broncos’ purported leader, should have been with them late Saturday night instead of in the corridor tending to his personal business, no matter how giving it was.
There are times when duty to team has to come first. Surely one of them is in the wake of lopsided and season-ending defeat.
You can imagine The Onion satirists were angry that this came out in the newspaper of record before they could write it up.
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Sep '10
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Evil, unfortunately, has a very common face.
May '11
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This obsession with this man's religion is frightening. My brother has somehow become a progressive liberal in the past decade. He says that the tea party is evil, not because of its ideas, but because he claims it is all controlled by Christian fundamentalists. He says that private schools are evil because it allows Christians to educate children apart from government control. It's strange that I'm the atheist that supports the Christian freedoms and he's the Christian that wants to eliminate Christianity from the public. My point is that my brother is a typical dc area democrat and this Times piece echoes what our "betters" want to inflict on us. I love my brother but his politics are repulsive.
Jun '10
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Mother Teresa was criticized, by some, for not having any high-tech medical equipment. She'd pick up dying beggars, bring them to her convent, and then "all she'd do for them is wash them, feed them, hold their hand, and pray for them." That's all. She was "insensitive," because everyone knows that love is measured by the number of tubes you have sticking out of you when you're about to die.
Mar '11
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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
You can imagine The Onion satirists were angry that this came out in the newspaper of record before they could write it for today's paper. ·
Oh, did you nail it! I like to think I have a vivid imagination, but it lacks the capacity to grasp even an edge of what rattles around in a head like Harvey Araton's before he "pens" a piece like this.
Sep '10
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Tebow's primary job with the Denver Broncos is not to play quarterback, but to attract fans. More fans, more viewers equal more money for his employer. I am not suggesting that attention seeking plays any role in what I regard as Tebow's sincere expressions of his faith. I do however appreciate the irony of articles like this increasing not decreasing Tebow's value.
Dec '11
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A newspaper writes for its audience. Since I don't see a way to view "comments" for the on-line article, I don't know whether the audience for the article is as intolerant and incoherent as its author.
Apr '11
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I think what offends them most is not when Tebow looses and is religious. It is when he wins and is religious. They can't stand that technically he is not a great QB. His stats are mediocre to say the least, but some how (by the grace of God) he can still pull of a spot in the playoffs and beat a solid team like Pittsburgh. They hate that so much, it is kind of funny. It really makes me want him to win, and to do it with a 45% passing average...I mean of all the things a professional athlete could be being too publicly religious is about the least bad thing possible. At least he doesn't breed dogs to have them kill each other, or sleep with every blonde bimbo in a 50 mile radius.
Jul '10
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Nothing in this life dissipates faster than a pro football team after its last game of the season. Even a senile cow like the Fay Lady should know that. An udder disgrace.
Oct '11
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Mollie Hemingway, Ed.
The reporter gets into the mind of John Elway and at one point writes, "While Tebow has made his priorities clear that his faith comes first, Elway’s job demands that Tebow be the analytical secularist and stick to the science of football."
Was this reporter even thinking or just ticking the Checklist of Christian bashing standard ?
I never knew that Secularism and Science was essential to Football.
Aug '10
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Next they'll demand that evolution be taught in gym class.
Jun '10
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I believe what we have here are two concurrent narratives from the school of amateur football psychology: the "losing QB as secular grief counselor" and the "losing QB as kindergarten teacher" narratives.
"No Tim, don't spend time praying with the brain injury patient; you must comfort your bereaved teammates even though most are older than you and are millionaires--it is your duty kiss their 'owies' and build their self-esteem."
Has this reporter ever been in a football locker-room? Part of the deal is that when football players lose a game, they man up on their own and handle it. And, much as I love the Broncos, this wasn't their first loss of the season--it was their ninth.
Is there anything written in the NY Times anymore that isn't agenda driven?
Jan '11
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So, if I understand this properly, Tebow committed some sort of heresy by not officiating in the traditional post-loss liturgy. Because of his religion?
What do you think? For his crime of not showing the required emotion, should we ship Tebow off to a re-education camp? If there aren't any openings at a United States camp, I think the North Koreans might have an opening.
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tabula rasa:
Has this reporter ever been in a football locker-room? Part of the deal is that when football players lose a game, they man up on their own and handle it. And, much as I love the Broncos, this wasn't their first loss of the season--it was their ninth.
Is there anything written in the NY Times anymore that isn't agenda driven? · Jan 16 at 7:48am
In a way, this story is more offensive for what it doesn't get about sports than what it doesn't get about religion. Not that the Times has ever had anything other than a laughable sports section. At least during my lifetime.
Edited on Jan 16 at 7:53amMar '11
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Harvey Araton's job, likewise, isn't to pontificate on the Meaning of It All, or even tell us what happened at the game. It is to get people to read the New York Times. And in this he suceeded today, at least with me. He accomplished this feat not by being insightful, or a particularly impressive writer, but by being an obnoxious, malignant twerp.
Tomorrow, he probably won't succeed, at least with me, yet in all likelihood he will still be an obnoxious, malignant twerp.
Oct '10
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Rejoice! We know what gets under their skin so deeply they become disoriented and can’t think logically. So, when you find something that makes your opponent go insane, give him a triple dose on a daily basis. If the mere sight of a successful athlete bowing his head can cause this much anxiety in the bed-wetting class, just think what we could do with even slightly more aggressive PDCs (Public Display of Christianity). It's going to be a great year!
May '10
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The name of Christ gets a reaction from people more than any other name in the world.
May '10
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I try not to make superficial snotty remarks about a person's looks... however, it's hard to take Harvey Araton seriously while he's channeling his inner-Waldo.
Aug '10
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3:16
Exact time spent with Ny Times last year. All from linked articles. Can't...bring...myself...to...read...it...
3 minutes,16 seconds.
Guess I am one of those [idiots] that Newsweek has uncovered.
Editor's Note: Redacted per CoC prohibition on profanity
Idiots ?
I was hoping for something along the lines of "stupid donkeys" or "ignorant glutei maximi". Oh well. Thanks Mom.
Edited on Jan 16 at 3:45pmMay '10
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Book of John?
Aug '10
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EJHill
Book of John? · Jan 16 at 9:19am
Madden.