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07 December 2009
A "Bible verse" for Tim Tebow
Those who watch college football games on television will probably understand this photo. Others can find an explication, discussion, and arguments about it at Reddit.
Very funny. But just to make sure I stay on the right side of 'karma,' let me say that, for me, it's not so much that Tebow wept; lots of guys do that after big games - altho, admittedly, not as much or for as long as he did. I think the shadenfreude we're all feeling is attributable to the media's premature canonization of St. Tebow. In my entire, sports-obsessed life, I've never seen such open-mouthed media tongue kissing with a guy who CLEARLY was just great athlete who was also a good guy - not the Student-Athlete Messiah. I don't think this was an example of the more typical instance of enjoying a cocky celebrity knocked down a peg. This was more of a universal dogpile on media excess exposed.
Lee, I don't think they were mocking his tears per se, which as you note are commonly seen everywhere from Little League to the Olympics. I think the intended dig was at his in-your-face (or "on my face") religiosity and the media's complicity in his canonization.
Very funny. But just to make sure I stay on the right side of 'karma,' let me say that, for me, it's not so much that Tebow wept; lots of guys do that after big games - altho, admittedly, not as much or for as long as he did.
ReplyDeleteI think the shadenfreude we're all feeling is attributable to the media's premature canonization of St. Tebow. In my entire, sports-obsessed life, I've never seen such open-mouthed media tongue kissing with a guy who CLEARLY was just great athlete who was also a good guy - not the Student-Athlete Messiah.
I don't think this was an example of the more typical instance of enjoying a cocky celebrity knocked down a peg. This was more of a universal dogpile on media excess exposed.
Lee, I don't think they were mocking his tears per se, which as you note are commonly seen everywhere from Little League to the Olympics. I think the intended dig was at his in-your-face (or "on my face") religiosity and the media's complicity in his canonization.
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