The Philadelphia Eagles are a no-go on Tim Tebow…
USA Today blames the cut on Tebow’s inconsistent performance in the preseason, despite his much-ballyhooed reworked throwing motion.
The former Heisman Trophy winner and 2010 first-round draft last appeared on an NFL roster in 2013, when the Patriots signed, then cut him – also in the preseason.
(Huffington Post, September 5, 2015)
Of course, Tebow became a viral sensation more for the way he prayed than played during games. Therefore, his religious fans could be forgiven for asking:
My God, my God, why have you forsaken him?
However, given that such a question would test the patience even of the Almighty God, He could be forgiven for intoning this diabolical answer:
Because, despite his Tebowing, this Jesus wannabe sucks at Football!
That said, I pray I can be forgiven my sense of fulfillment over this spectacular rebuke of Tim Tebow Superstar – whose success seemed as divinely ordained as divinely assured. After all, here are two proverbs, which should explain, perhaps even vindicate, the fate that has befallen him.
Proverb I
That Tebow beat out Kobe Bryant, Aaron Rodgers, and Drew Brees to win a recent ESPN poll for ‘America’s favorite athlete’ demonstrates again how exaggerated and misguided the hosannas to him really are.
In any case, I am pretty sure this phenomenon will die a media death this weekend when Tom Brady and the New England Patriots show Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos, in convincing fashion, that winning football games has absolutely nothing to do with how much of a spectacle one makes of praying to God.
(”The Divine Tim Tebow? Puhleese!” The iPINIONS Journal, January 12, 2012)
Proverb II
I have no doubt that some other team will be happy to exploit what little remains of the ‘tebowing’ phenomenon by signing Tebow to hang out on the sidelines like a de facto mascot.
(“Denver Broncos: We want Peyton; Tebow can go to Hell,” The iPINIONS Journal, March 20, 2012)
Sure enough, the New York Jets, the New England Patriots, and the Philadelphia Eagles all gave him more than a fair shot. Alas, far from succeeding as an NFL quarterback, Tebow could not even make it as a mascot.
Amen.
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