Poor Tebow. All he has now is beauty queen wife, millions of dollars and a huge contract as a commentator. His endorsements will add to that. He can always say he never gave up on his dream and in fairness he didn't, but the league is not a place for participation trophies.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

Not too many hater articles, but I did find this one. So many haters. Tebow had the opportunity and went for it. Who else wouldn't? To me sport's is part, player's story, and part overall team performance. Sometime's the story of older fighter coming back for another chance is a good story. It would have gotten more eyeballs, ticket and jersey sales, made it more interesting.

Now the storyline goes back to Trevor Lawrence and Urban Meyer's debut in the NFL...Although, I vowed to not pull for the Jags anymore, The Urban/Trevor story line has me interested.

Lame hater article that I don't agree with, but worth the read:


Tim Tebow's ill-fated NFL return was about cronyism rather than talent
The quarterback gave us many magic moments during his sporting career but his final stop in Jacksonville deprived more deserving players of a chance

https://www.theguardian.com/sp...d-football-urban-meyer

Inappropriate use of the plural here. Tebow is one person, took up one slot, and thus didn't deprive any more than ONE player of an opportunity. Happens all the time in pro sports. I knew a couple MLB-caliber guys who languished in the minors for political/financial reasons more than athletic.

The one thing the Tebow haters who take that "deprived others" line fail to account for is thinking outside the box. If you have a guy who can run and (kinda) throw, it gives you options you don't have with a pure TE.

With that said, it had to have the support of management/ownership as well as Coach Meyer. In the end, they made the right decision.




Edited: 08/22/2021 at 09:13 AM by CurtisEflush