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Tebow offered $1M by Russian team
TORONTO SUN ^ | SEPTEMBER 14, 2013 | THE SPORTS XCHANGE

Posted on 09/15/2013 7:26:32 AM PDT by rickmichaels

A football team in Russia has offered Tim Tebow $1 million to play in two playoff games.

“We have offered him $1 million for two games,” Moscow Black Storm owner Mikhail Zaltsman told Russia Beyond The Headlines. “I talked with him personally and he wanted to go.”

Zaltsman wants Tebow to fly to Moscow for the Black Storm’s semifinal against the Moscow Patriots in the American Football Championship of Russia on Sept. 28 and also play in the final if they advance.

Zaltsman said Tebow’s agents are urging the quarterback to not play.

“They’re thinking of using him as a motivational speaker,” Zaltsman said. “They don’t want him to play football.”

Tebow, the former Heisman Trophy winner at Florida and first-round draft pick of the Denver Broncos, is a free agent after being released by the New England Patriots on Aug. 31.


TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: athletes; denverbroncos; florida; football; mikhailzaltsman; moscowblackstorm; newenglandpatriots; nfl; russia; tebow; timtebow
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1 posted on 09/15/2013 7:26:32 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: rickmichaels

If he fails, he will seriously hurt his reputation in the U.S. I don’t think it is worth the risk.


2 posted on 09/15/2013 7:29:16 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: rickmichaels

Why not go?

I don’t think Tebow has much of a future in the NFL.


3 posted on 09/15/2013 7:29:55 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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To: rickmichaels

I think he should take it and hope he will do extremely well...


4 posted on 09/15/2013 7:31:08 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: rickmichaels

I support him going. His future in the NFL is in question, and it would be a cool experience to go somewhere where the papers would likely praise him rather than attack and demean him.


5 posted on 09/15/2013 7:35:08 AM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I don’t think it is worth the risk.

$1,000,000 is not worth the risk?

6 posted on 09/15/2013 7:38:43 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
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To: rickmichaels
It's not reasonable to think you can walk into any system, not knowing your team and be successful in “play off games”.

This sounds like a PR gimmick.

7 posted on 09/15/2013 7:38:55 AM PDT by ryan71 (The Partisans)
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To: rickmichaels
American Football Championship of Russia

Kind of like the World Championship of American Cricket ....

8 posted on 09/15/2013 7:39:42 AM PDT by mikrofon (Sportz BUMP)
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To: rickmichaels

How do you say 36...24...18 hut in Russian!

Language couldn’t possibly a barrier...to success.


9 posted on 09/15/2013 7:40:49 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: rickmichaels

he’s already turned down Canada & playing arena football.
I can’t see him going to Russia


10 posted on 09/15/2013 7:43:21 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: rickmichaels

Reading it again,...he’d be playing for America against Russia & only in 2 games. Well, why not.?


11 posted on 09/15/2013 7:45:25 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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He would be a better representative of our country in competition with the Russians than our President.


12 posted on 09/15/2013 7:46:59 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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That’s for sure!


13 posted on 09/15/2013 7:48:00 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: hoosierham

He does have a helluva future if he would give up the goal of playing QB... which he won’t.

That’s why the pats won’t take him.


14 posted on 09/15/2013 7:48:54 AM PDT by Principled
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To: nuconvert

Read it again. It’s the American football (vs futbol everywhere else in the world) league. Both teams are Russian.


15 posted on 09/15/2013 7:54:08 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
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To: TaxPayer2000

It’s hard to quantify the value of reputation in money terms, but doing something like this would have unlimited downside potential. Tebow’s reputation is clearly worth a lot more than $1,000,000 dollars.


16 posted on 09/15/2013 7:54:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Doing the same thing and expecting different results is called software engineering.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Putin is “born again”


17 posted on 09/15/2013 7:58:27 AM PDT by Therapsid (Communism has killed 50-60 Million people in only 50 yrs.)
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To: rickmichaels
I believe Tim Tebow should take the offer. I think he might do so if the offer were for $1 instead of $1 million. What an opportunity for a believer to deliver his message by his very presence to the whole of Russia.


18 posted on 09/15/2013 7:58:40 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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He belongs in Jacksonville, but its Muslim owner doesn’t want a religious Christian to be his team’s icon. So Jags fans are left to wonder if future hall of famer Blaine Gabbert will be able to top last week’s stellar TWO point performance against the Raiders in Oakland today.


19 posted on 09/15/2013 7:58:53 AM PDT by montag813 (NO AMNESTY * ENFORCE THE LAW * http://StandWithArizona.com)
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To: rickmichaels

The minute he goes; there will be a PR nightmare saying he is an atheist.


20 posted on 09/15/2013 8:08:53 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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