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Posted on 08/14/2011 8:08:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow has come under attack from sports analysts for being vocal about the role his Christian faith plays in his National Football League career.
Before his second professional season has even begun, naysayers are questioning his confidence that relies on his Christian beliefs.
CBSSports.com national columnist Gregg Doyel recently analyzed Tebow’s interview with Denver Post and said the way he equated his love for God in heaven with tangible rewards on earth amounted to blasphemy. The interview was prompted by reports that Tebow might not begin the season as Denver’s starting quarterback.
Doyel’s analysis angered Tebow’s fans. “Dude, your article bothers me. You know dang well that you painted Tebow as a religious nut-job,” complained one Daniel Liebman. Doyel Friday responded to what he described as “hate mails” from “Tebow fanatics.”
“I didn’t paint him as a religious nut-job. Tebow’s the one holding the brush. I just hung his art on the wall and asked you folks to take a look,” the columnist said.
“Your article on Christian faith is extremely offensive,” wrote another fan, Chance Jones. “I have forwarded my thoughts to many individuals at CBS Sports and will no longer be a customer.” Doyel listed the responses sent by Tebow’s fans followed by a statement defending his analysis.
While Tebow is not known to have responded to criticism, he posted “Joshua 1:19” on his Facebook page Friday. The verse, which reads, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go,” alluded to the charge.
Debi Albritton, a fan commented, saying, “Your faith and your continued show of faith even against all the naysayers is a testament to all Christians. May God bless you and continue to strengthen you against all the adversity you receive!”
Doyel’s article juxtaposed views that suggest “Tebow will never be a good NFL quarterback,” with his confidence in God for his success. “He doesn’t believe it. Which is fine… But check out the reason why he doesn’t believe it,” the sports columnist continued.
Then Doyel quoted Tebow as saying, “Others who say I won’t make it are wrong. They don’t know what I’m capable of and what’s inside me. My family and my friends have been bothered by what’s gone on, and I tell them to pay no attention to it. I’m relying as always on my faith.”
“He’ll make it in this league – for the Bible tells him so,” Doyel remarked. “From the outside it looks like Tebow equates his love for God in heaven with tangible rewards here on earth. And that’s more than wrong. It’s blasphemy.” However, Doyel claimed he had nothing against Tebow or his God and that he considered him the nicest person he had ever met.
Collin Hansen, editorial director of The Gospel Coalition, in a blog Friday, commented on the controversy involving Doyel and Tebow.
“I’m not sure if Doyel knows what blasphemy is, or the seriousness of the charge he’s leveling against Tebow,” Hansen commented. “Tebow could be saying he relies on his faith to withstand criticism and pressure, not that he finds assurance in his future as a starting quarterback because God loves him.”
However, Doyel agrees Tebow’s life has been “grandiose.”
“He was the best high school player in America. The best college player in America, and one of the most accomplished players – one Heisman, two national titles – in history. A first-round draft pick of the Denver Broncos in 2010.”
At college in Florida, Tebow frequently wore biblical verses on his eye black. In the 2009 Bowl Championship Series, he wore “John 3:16” on his eye paint, reportedly causing 92 million people to search the verse on Google. Later, Tebow switched to “Proverbs 3:5-6,” again causing 3.43 million searches of the verse together with “Tim Tebow.”
Has “pearls before swine” ever been more aptly illustrated?
>>>>>>I didn’t paint him as a religious nut-job.
liberal progressives are nut jobs.
a jackass like this reproter might look at another beliving QB - Kurt Warner, he did OK as a man with faith who came back again and again.
The Denver Broncos didn't draft him in the first round a couple of years ago to be the team minister . . . they drafted him to be their future starting quarterback. And that just ain't happening, folks.
Is anyone really shocked to find an unbeliever thinking and acting like an unbeliever?
He has the wrong skin color to receive religious tolerance from the paparazzi press.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION
VERSUS
FREEDOM FROM RELIGION.
Of equals choice.
FROM equals dictatorial!
Tebow is okay ALTHOUGH he lost to the Cowboys! Hoo Hah!
Bingo! The girlymen in the "sports media" wouldn't dare say this crap if Tebow was "black" or "brown". I don't know which are worse, the girlymen who cover politics or the girlymen who cover sports. I do know that they are all loud-mouthed freaks who can't make it doing a real job.
Joshua 1:19 bump....
I’m sure the Muzzie NFL guys had a great time at Baraq’s Ramalamadingdong late night grub in.
That bottom-feeder Rick Reilly (spit) at ESPN has been all over Tebow’s case recently...he is so politically correct he squeaks when he walks...Reilly’s screeds are nausea-inducing.
Buncha trash. That said, either Mr. Tebow will play well, or he won’t, and that’s the only thing that matters in his occupation.
One of the BEST NFL coaches ever, Joe Gibbs, whom I personally know is a devout Evangelical Christian.
Tebow has led teams to championships at every level he has plated, at after three games at the NFL level you have determined he lacks talent.
From everything I have seen from this kid, he has proven that he is a leader; sadly, it took a lot of guts for him to openly profess his faith, in a world where liberal agnostic and atheistic scum dominate the media. There efforts have been consistent and unrelenting primarily because of his beliefs and willingness to discuss them... compare and contrast the scum in the media’s comments regarding Jamarcus Russell, that is, if you can find them.
Tebow has led teams to championships at every level he has played, and after three games at the NFL level you have determined he lacks talent.
From everything I have seen from this kid, he has proven that he is a leader; sadly, it took a lot of guts for him to openly profess his faith, in a world where liberal agnostic and atheistic scum dominate the media. There efforts have been consistent and unrelenting primarily because of his beliefs and willingness to discuss them... compare and contrast the scum in the media’s comments regarding Jamarcus Russell, that is, if you can find them.
note to Tim: just tell ‘em you are Muslim, then the press will be afraid of you and won’t bother you anymore.
Lotsa good examples of good sane young Christian gentlemen playing QB in the NFL... Kurt Warner... Sam Bradford... Colt McCoy... Kitna...
Not a single one of them have ever been seen in a screaming blue-faced spitting rage against their own teammates when the scoreboard was against them, or invited themselves into the defense team's huddle for a "pep talk" before a kickoff.
Let him try that with his teammates in the NFL and he just might get what would help him most to become a truly decent guy... non-surgical removal of a couple of personality traits.
This practise can't be wise, nor can they be at full strength, in the middle of summer at training camp.
The left wing crowd took him to task for those comments. Not because he was a Christian.
Born-again Christians have been beheaded, burned alive,drawn and quartered and worse for their personal faith in Jesus Christ. Does anyone honestly think that Tim Tebow is afraid of reporters? Or the Libertarians who troll Free Republic pages, for that matter?
Yeah I get tired of the assumption of persecution. Anybody thinking Tebow is getting ripped because of his faith needs to explain why the exact same sports reporters loved Reggie White and love Tony Dungy. The fact is Tebow has issues with his mechanics, maybe they’ll get better, maybe they won’t but until somebody makes him a starter and he starts winning games it’s all legit criticism.
Really, because all these same guys were OK with Kurt Warner’s faith, and he’s the same color.
We can tell there’s something wrong with how Tebow plays because he can’t manage to win the starting job from Kyle Orton. I mean really, Kyle Orton, it’s not like Tebow is stuck warming the bench behind a hall of famer, he’s stuck behind a guy with a 32-30 record, there’s gotta be something wrong there.
There are dozens of similar cases in the last few decades involving phenomenal athletes who are top-caliber QBs at the high school and college level. But that's the one position where success at the college level has the least correlation to success in the NFL. Let's go back over the last 40 years and list all of the college QBs who won the Heisman Trophy:
1971 - Pat Sullivan (Auburn)
1984 - Doug Flutie (Boston College)
1986 - Vinnie Testaverde (Miami)
1989 - Andre Ware (Houston)
1990 - Ty Detmer (BYU)
1992 - Gino Torretta (Miami)
1993 - Charlie Ward (Florida State)
1996 - Danny Wuerffel (Florida)
2000 - Chris Weinke (Florida State)
2001 - Eric Crouch (Nebraska)
2002 - Carson Palmer (USC)
2003 - Jason White (Oklahoma)
2004 - Matt Leinart (USC)
2005 - Troy Smith (Ohio State)
2007 - Tim Tebow (Florida)
2008 - Sam Bradford (Oklahoma)
I've left 2010 Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton off this list because he hasn't appeared on an NFL roster for a single game yet. I've got nothing against Tim Tebow, but he's in very good company on that list -- among a whole bunch of players whose defining characteristic is that not only are there no NFL star QBs among them (Carson Palmer is the only one who comes close), but the vast majority of them have had no impact on their NFL teams even as long-term starters.
What's even more remarkable about that list is who isn't on it. You can go back over the last 30 years in the NFL, and you'll often find that the top QBs at any given time had not necessarily been top NCAA players or even top draft picks. Names like Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Warren Moon, Steve Young, Brett Favre and Troy Aikman are conspicuously absent from this list.
With this kind of track record for uncertainty at the quarterback position, I find myself wondering why any NFL team would use a high draft pick on a QB.
I think Tebow brings intangibles.....in the end they’ll say, “All he does is win.”
I’m not a Christian but I recognize irrational “Sarah Palin” type of hatred when I see it.
Bookmark on a winner!
Dude, I will defend Knoxville until it gets real, but I’ll be damned that they slam Tebow. A remarkable man in his own right!
I’m sure that’s the case. I’m just not sure how far “intangibles” can get you in the NFL. Doug Flutie may have gotten more mileage out of his “intangibles” than any QB I can remember, but even he was basically a journeyman who showed only flashes of dominance in a pretty unremarkable career.
What would a God-hater like Doyel know about blasphemy? Those atheist nut-jobs are always trying to use theology against normal people, but they never have it right.
In 2003, Rush Limbaugh was fired from his position as a sportscaster for saying, with regard to Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb:
“I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well,” Limbaugh said. “There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team.”
That sent the media scum into a grand mal self-righteousness seizure.
But what are they doing here exept being too hard on a new quarterback for being a Christian?
“CBSSports.com national columnist Gregg Doyel recently analyzed Tebow’s interview with Denver Post and said the way he equated his love for God in heaven with tangible rewards on earth amounted to blasphemy.”
What would anybody at SeeBS know about God?
“Joshua 1:19 bump....”
Joshua 1 ends with verse 18.
“I’m not a Christian but I recognize irrational “Sarah Palin” type of hatred when I see it.”
Good for you! I commend your outspoken integrity!
This one tried both:
"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." Matthew 7:6
Tebow's a class act. The lamestream media will never understand those of faith, period. Tebow proved it in one brief interview.
It all depends on the system. If a team is looking for a classic drop back passer Tim Tebow doesn't fit, but if they are looking for a QB that rolls out, or run a west coast style offense he might fit. Knowing that he is a Born Again Christian who works hard and doesn't run around with the wrong crowd makes him a better choice than a Ryan Mallet, even though Mallet is taller and throws harder.
The lack of NFL star QB's on your list just illustrates that the Heisman Trophy is not based on who is the best fit for the NFL.
The criticism that Tim Tebow gets from the secular sports media is no different then what happened to Kurt Warner. Instead of raising these fine men up as examples to young boys and girls they seek to mock them and if they stumble make sure everyone knows. It just shows how far we've fallen.
Yeah I seriously doubt this writer knows what blasphemy is. He apparently regards ANY criticism of him to be “hate emails” which tells us know thin skinned he is. This is another example that we often see from the celebrity media where they seem to know just enough about the Bibel to be dangerous.
But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, (2 Timothy 2:12-14)
“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
“Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Matthew 5:11-12
“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated Me before it hated you.
“If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, because of this the world hates you.
“Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also.
“But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know the One who sent Me. (John 15:18-21)
Do not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you. (1 John 3:13)
Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?
But even if you should suffer for the sake of righteousness, you are blessed. And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled,
but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence;
and keep a good conscience so that in the thing in which you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ will be put to shame.
For it is better, if God should will it so, that you suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong. (1Peter 3:13-17)
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2-4)
The reality is this: it does not matter if you are a star NFL player or a person on the lowest rung of society's ladder. If you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and believed upon Him; if you are living for Christ and sharing your faith... God's Word is clear: you will be a target of Satan's attacks and you will be persecuted and attacked by "the world": those who are lost and controled by Satan and the Satanic world system which hates the Lord Jesus Christ and ALL OF THOSE WHO BELONG TO Him: See Ephesians 2:1-2
You´re right. So sorry.
It´s even on my ¨Shields Of Strength¨ keyring, and one would think I´d have at least looked at it...which means I really should more often anyway.
Thanks.
God´s blessings on You and Yours....
“God´s blessings on You and Yours....”
And you and yours!
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