Tim Tebow: Still a Virgin?
Posted: July 24th, 2009, 11:43 am
BUT, the guy who asked it said he wanted to know if Tebow was saving himself for marriage because Tebow holds himself out as a Christian, and the reporter is a Southern Baptist, and wanted to know. I personally think it was tacky and unfair to Tebow (and, I'm not a Tim Tebow fan).
According to Tebow, he is still saving himself for marriage and is a virgin. Now, I'm thinking about this in several different ways.
First, poor guy. He's over here doing everything "right", on the surface and maybe all the way down to his heart, soul and body for all I know (and I'll give him all benefit of the doubt that he is). Up comes some reporter with this question. And, Tebow answers the question. He's the "poor guy" because this is intensely personal stuff, it was not asked to follow up on a developing story about Tebow, and Tebow should not have to talk about such things. But, he did. This brings me to a second point.
Second, poor guy. He's painted this huge bullseye on himself, magnified by this ever-growing spotlight on him. No one can live up to the expectations that are being created around this kid. If (and I say IF, again, to give him the benefit of the doubt --- although that's kinda hard as a Bama fan
), he fails in a public way later on, people are not going to be easy on him. The flipside of that bullseye is that now young girls are going to be practically undressing for him in the streets. People are going to set traps. That ain't good, and it isn't fair. Like I said, poor guy.
Third. I don't know if he is really capable of reasoning things out this way at this point in his life, but I wonder if he understands the price he is going to pay. Yeah, he'll be filthy rich, and all of that. But, putting himself out there so publicly on such a personal issue on a matter that so many (in time) will just laugh at him about and mock his faith about .... is Tebow saying to his critics about his faith the same kind of thing he said to his own teammates last year after their failure against Ole Miss that this was going to be on him and that he would never let that kind of failure happen again? He has either a tremendous quality to his faith or a big blindspot about himself. I hope it is the former. I hope Bama gets to play him and beat him (talk about faith!!!).
According to Tebow, he is still saving himself for marriage and is a virgin. Now, I'm thinking about this in several different ways.
First, poor guy. He's over here doing everything "right", on the surface and maybe all the way down to his heart, soul and body for all I know (and I'll give him all benefit of the doubt that he is). Up comes some reporter with this question. And, Tebow answers the question. He's the "poor guy" because this is intensely personal stuff, it was not asked to follow up on a developing story about Tebow, and Tebow should not have to talk about such things. But, he did. This brings me to a second point.
Second, poor guy. He's painted this huge bullseye on himself, magnified by this ever-growing spotlight on him. No one can live up to the expectations that are being created around this kid. If (and I say IF, again, to give him the benefit of the doubt --- although that's kinda hard as a Bama fan
), he fails in a public way later on, people are not going to be easy on him. The flipside of that bullseye is that now young girls are going to be practically undressing for him in the streets. People are going to set traps. That ain't good, and it isn't fair. Like I said, poor guy.
Third. I don't know if he is really capable of reasoning things out this way at this point in his life, but I wonder if he understands the price he is going to pay. Yeah, he'll be filthy rich, and all of that. But, putting himself out there so publicly on such a personal issue on a matter that so many (in time) will just laugh at him about and mock his faith about .... is Tebow saying to his critics about his faith the same kind of thing he said to his own teammates last year after their failure against Ole Miss that this was going to be on him and that he would never let that kind of failure happen again? He has either a tremendous quality to his faith or a big blindspot about himself. I hope it is the former. I hope Bama gets to play him and beat him (talk about faith!!!).