Tebow and religion

20 December, 2011

Over at Grantland, Charles Pierce puts something in perspective:

He wasn’t dragooned into this. Nobody drafted him. He walked into this role with his eyes open. Before he ever took a snap in the NFL, he appeared in an anti-choice television ad with his mother that was sponsored by Focus on the Family, an influential anti-choice, anti-gay-rights organization founded by the Rev. James Dobson. He knew what he was doing.

And that’s just it - you can’t make a television ad for bigots and then act surprised when people start to dislike you.

And another thing to consider, that I’ve never heard brought up. How often did Steve Young (hall-of-famer, tended to score more than 15 points per game) talk about his religion? Because, you know where he got the name Young, right? You know he’s from Salt Lake City, right? Yeah, that’s right, he shares his name with the University he attended because he’s a direct descendant of Brigham Young, but I don’t think I ever saw him do a commercial expounding those beliefs did he? No, he was just an great football player. Tebow could learn a lot from Steve Young.