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Showing Original Post only (View all)Tebow being blackballed by NFL teams due to cult-like following... [View all]
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--tim-tebow-blackballed-by-nfl-teams-because-of-cult-like-following--media-frenzy-054940389.htmlSnip
Right now, pro-football powerbrokers don't seem to be listening, and that's their prerogative. No man, even one as revered in some quarters as Tebow, has a divine right to wear an NFL uniform. This is a highly competitive sport, performed at its highest level, and players with strong credentials and promising starts to their careers get bounced out of the league with regularity.
This time, however, there's a glaring difference. In virtually every other case, the once-prominent player who washes out does so after flailing on the field, and/or getting into trouble off the field.
Since playing in a pair of playoff games 16 months ago, Tebow, whose only off-the-field baggage comes in the form of his cult-like following and the media frenzy it provokes, hasn't been afforded the opportunity to show that he sucks.
It's certainly possible that he's simply not up to NFL standards, and never will be, but wouldn't it be nice to get some conclusive proof before this story comes to a meek and unfulfilling close?
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I thought this was interesting in how owners don't want to mess with the paranoid, cultist behavior of Tebow's followers, their rationalizations about God's interventions, etc, even though there is talent and leadership skills in this player.
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He throws an excellent knuckleball. Unfortunately he is not trying out in baseball.
madinmaryland
May 2013
#39
So, for how long does he have to keep sucking before it's OK to continue ignoring
Egalitarian Thug
May 2013
#4
I wouldn't say "afraid" is the way they feel. I think they think he sucks, first, and that, Big
MADem
May 2013
#31
If he doesn't decide that there's more money to be made as a god botherer.
GoneOffShore
May 2013
#87
I'll say this for TT, I don't know of any pro athlete who's accomplished less in his career......
marmar
May 2013
#12
He should go into politics. He fits right into the fake family value republicans.
southernyankeebelle
May 2013
#16
You may not get that wish. However, he fits right in with that wacko bunch of religious zealots.
southernyankeebelle
May 2013
#30
He isn't being blackballed. That implies a concerted decision to not allow him in.
denverbill
May 2013
#44
If Tebow had RG III's skills, he could have a cult following of satan worshippers
Zorra
May 2013
#52
I think to play in Foxboro he would have to significantly tone down the god stuff
Marrah_G
May 2013
#63
He is not an NFL QB. His footwork is shit, his throwing mechanics are even worse. His release is
JRLeft
May 2013
#67
oops I meant to say "or the NBA" but the phone rang and distracted me... my bad....
TeamPooka
May 2013
#86