http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=215x127246Oh my.
Botany (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:16 PM
Original message
Give it up to Tebow .... and I wanted to dog him too.
Tim said, the better team won, they outplayed us, they were better prepared then we were, and I give them all the credit. very very rough quote
I am not thrilled with some of the hype that went with him but his comments showed me he was a "stand up guy," @ a very tough time.
joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:17 PM
Response to Original message
1. Did he end with God bless?
Botany (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:22 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. yes he did
Because that is important to him and in nation founded on the freedom of religion that is his right and it should be respected too. If you don't like it or don't buy into the "big cloud guy story" let it go .... it is no big thing.
joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:24 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. Thanks for reading everything into a short question...
...give it a rest.
Botany (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 09:32 AM
Response to Reply #4
21. A picture is worth a thousand words
after which a photograph of America's team winning the World Series
happyiowan (410 posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:25 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. Understand that I mean this respectfully...but it seems to me there is little freedom to be irreligious. When I see a little bit of equality, I'll let it go. Until then, all I have to say is it seems to me that god maybe wanted his scripture back.
a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 08:58 AM
Response to Reply #3
14. Botany...you simply MUST take a history class.
This country was only partly founded on someone's religious freedom-Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They were NOT about granting religious freedom to Indians, other English (or Europeans)-which is why Rhode Island exists as a state.
And god forbid you were accused of witchcraft.
And, a full decade and a half BEFORE the Puritans set up their "city on a hill", a bunch of English men arrived in what is now Virginia, aiming to start a moneymaking colony to catch up to Spain and France. Not exactly based on religion, eh?
Finally, most, if not all of our FF's were deists-and "Christian in name only".
So, can the "this country was founded on religious freedom" meme. It wasn't and people are increasingly intolerant of relgious freedom.
I have little tolerance for a religion that decides that my mother and uncle, both of whom are gay, should burn in hell. Screw that! I have little tolerance for a religion that puts me and millions of other women below men.
What people are ribbing Tebow about is the spoiled, self-centered nature of his CRYING ON THE SIDELINE. He won 2 national championships and 1 Heisman trophy...and his crying made him look like a spoiled, sore loser.
I think that might be my longest Sports forum post. I don't typically have to give history lessons.
Botany (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 09:25 AM
Response to Reply #14
20. I have had the history classes too thank you very much
I wanted to dog Tebow too .... I was tired of the hype and the stories all about St. Tim of Gainsville and his over the top faith so when I saw him crying I got a little chuckle out of it but after hearing what he said right after the game I was impressed with his class and the way he gave all the credit to Alabama. His statement was hardly one of spoiled self centered sore loser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hE3M61FV5U&feature=play...
Junto con ciencia también estudié cierta historia y español en “Harvard en el Hocking†aka Ohio University.
Yo tengo translation widget tambien.
a la izquierda (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 09:40 AM
Response to Reply #20
22. Harvard on the Hocking...hah! That's pretty funny.
I didn't care for his statement, frankly, because I'm ambivalent about religion.
However, it was his bawling during the closing moments of the game that totally got me. I was an athlete growing up and my mom always taught me "don't be a sore loser", don't be a crybaby, show a little class when you lose (which he did through his speech, but not through his bawling).
He could have and probably should have simply held it together until the locker room.
And I went to one of those pseudo-Ivy's, too. Now I'm at a monster football school
Sorry to give you grief, I just can't handle the constant reiteration that the US was founded on religion...fortunately, I don't have to teach it anymore, as I'm getting a PhD in Latin America.
The condom primitive:
Condem (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:19 PM
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2. A lot of folks were calling him a puss in my bar, Botany.
Believe it or not, I came to his defense. One thing he isn't is a wuss. He is truly, a gamer. Still love to see him lose, though.
joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:25 PM
Response to Reply #2
5. If the sportscasters didn't touch themselves every time he was on the field, I probably won't hate him so much.
Condem (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:27 PM
Response to Reply #5
8. Yeah.
Even a couple of TD's down, he was still going to calm the waters and pull it out. Against Saban and that D???
Botany (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:30 PM
Response to Reply #5
9. If you really hate him it might be time to walk away form watching football.
Big time college is a multi billon dollar industry and selling the story line along
with the game makes the media money and that is sled dog pulling the sleigh.
The true mud primitive, the asshole who drove away the cboy4 primitive, the only primitive on Skins's island who knew anything about sports:
trumad (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 08:36 AM
NOMINEE FOR TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #9
12. I don't hate Tim Tebow personally---
I hate the ****ing Gators.
joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 09:03 AM
Response to Reply #9
16. Come on, this is DU, hate doesn't mean hate...
...hyperbole, of course. I hate his new best friend, though, Charlie Crist.
madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:34 PM
Response to Reply #5
10. Kind of like the way you touch yourself everytime there is a redsox player on?
joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 09:04 AM
Response to Reply #10
17. On? On where? On me?
Botany (1000+ posts) Sat Dec-05-09 08:26 PM
Response to Reply #2
7. After OSU v Florida 2006 when he scored 43 touchdowns I still should be ....
.... bitter but no matter how much he was hurting after today's game he showed class.
a kennedy (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 08:15 AM
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11. did anyone else see tebow's mom and dad in the stands??
Yikes....she looked like she was a matron of some prison......very, very black hair pulled back and I think she was dressed in black also.... kinda creepy looking and his father just looked terribly disappointed.
The true mud primitive, a
NOMINEE FOR TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009 who dislikes his elderly mother, but's being nice to her while she's still around, so as to not be expunged from her will, posts a photograph of the Florida quarterback and his parents.
joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 09:02 AM
Response to Reply #13
15. She looks like her face has been pulled back too tight, Tim looks like a dimwit, and Dad looks like a porn producer.
I dunno. They look like a perfectly fine family to franksolich.
trumad (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 09:18 AM
NOMINEE FOR TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #15
18. Home Schooled their little boy as well....
Probably a straight-A student in college, then.
joeybee12 (1000+ posts) Sun Dec-06-09 09:20 AM
Response to Reply #18
19. That's why I originally didn't like him...it's not home schooling, it's home indoctrination.
