Posted on 08/25/2015 8:17:00 PM PDT by xzins
A sports columnist for the Orlando Sentinel said people ask him why he wants to see Tim Tebow succeed in his professional football career and his reasons have nothing to do the game.
“Mainly it's because every time I've ever seen him at a public appearance, he scans the crowd in search of kids with special needs and then immediately makes a mad dash toward those kids as if they are a touchdown pylon,” Mike Bianchi wrote in an Aug. 22 column.
“So many times these kids with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis and afflictions we can't even pronounce — let alone imagine — look up from their wheelchairs and see people avoid them and recoil at the very sight of them,” Bianchi wrote. “Tebow is drawn to them and makes a beeline toward them, looks them in the eye, hugs them, talks to them, touches them.”
Bianchi details the work of Tebow’s foundation in his column.
• The Tebow Foundation orphan care for more than 2,000 kids in four different countries who have been left homeless and abandoned.
• Financial aid for those parents who have adopted special-needs children in 53 different countries.
• The new Tebow Cure Hospital that was recently built in the Philippines, where health care is provided to poor children.
• The nationwide prom Tebow's foundation held earlier this year for more than 7,000 special-needs kids in 26 different states and two countries. Each prom included a red-carpet entrance with paparazzi, limousine rides, hair and makeup beauty stations, shoe shining, dinner and dancing.
Bianchi concludes: “I guess that’s why I root so hard for Tim Tebow to succeed in the NFL.
“He’s not just good for the league,” Bianchi wrote. “He’s good for the world.”
Bianchi spoke with Mike Barr, who has adopted three special-needs children through the Tim Tebow Foundation.
"It's just a lot easier to turn the other way and ignore those with special needs," Barr said. "Tim is the complete opposite. He doesn't see these kids as a burden; he sees them as a blessing."
Bianchi said Tebow told him he takes seriously Jesus Christ’s commandment to love “the least of these.”
"I want to have a life of significance," Tebow said, "and caring for the least of these is what really matters. … I believe we can inspire and be a light to people who have been abandoned or thrown away or neglected.
“That is where my heart is,” Tebow said.
Pray for this young man’s faith to stay true and strong
The world will try to make him fall. In fact, I’ll bet he’s a target.
Tim Tebow is such a delightful young, Christian warrior, I hope he succeeds on the field again too!
The world needs more Tim Tebow’s.
Actually, he has a staggering following wherever he goes. Especially for a mediocre at best QB.
Love the guy but he cant read the field at all after his first go to guy isn’t free, which is usually because he takes to long to set and throw.
I hope he makes third string, because he can run.
However, he will never be a starting caliber QB.
He has so much to offer in life that it isn’t the end of the world.
I am of the opinion that Denver really screwed up when they encouraged Tebow to leave. Had they kept him and let him mature under Payton, they would have a rock star waiting for Payton to retire.
The Tebow brand can sell a lot of tickets and merchandise.
I think his Denver hitch says he’s better at QB than he’s given credit for. I don’t think he’s all that, but sometimes there’s a QB who has that old ‘find a way to win’ mentality. That’s Tebow. We have Andy Dalton in Cincinnati, my closest big city. Honestly, I’d rather have Tebow. Dalton is a really nice guy, but he’s a bit of a loner without much of a leadership streak in him.
But, you’re probably right. He needs to be someone’s 2/3 stringer. If for no other reason than it allows him to keep helping these kids.
Great poster. I can’t shake the notion that Tebow’s biggest sin with the league and the media was his being a Christian.
There are a lot of 1st and 2nd string quarter backs who have never been to the playoffs. Tebow took an 1 and 4 team to the playoffs with an 8 and 5 record. Listed as lifetime starting win percentage of.562 pct according to the football db. There are a lot starting quarter backs that dont have that good of a win percentage.
That win percentage puts him just right in there with Drew Breeze and Eli Manning. Hardly mediocre company.
My husband, a football coach, said Tebow was a great athlete who would have more success in the NFL in a position other than quarterback. I can’t remember what position(s) he said would be a better fit...
I agree. I really want him in the league because he adds class and helps people.
He would have been some star in the 50’s when running was everything.
Or was it earlier than that?
Right you are Preacher.
Didn’t Jesus say that because the world hated Him, that it would hate us as well?
Tim Tebow demonstrates that I think.
I just hope that if the time comes that I am arrested and accused of being a Christian that there will be enough evidence to indict me.
“Always with the negative waves, Moriarty”
With a Great defense and a Run oriented game, and a college oriented offense, yes, he could do well.
However, would you, as a coach, take the chance to completely change your offensive scheme to one that is almost never seen anymore, because of one player?
For some reason he cant read the field well. I dont know how you work on that. I hope he can improve it greatly. I like him alot.
That was a great season, but New England completely dismantled them, as would any of the top 10 teams, of which Pittsburgh was not anymore, at that time, with aging players.
Tight end. Fullback. Those are my guesses.
He would have been some star in the 50’s when running was everything.
Or was it earlier than that?
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I think he would have dominated in the 60’s and 70’s. Some of the best QB’s from that era had completion percentages around 50.
Actually, he has a staggering following wherever he goes. Especially for a mediocre at best QB.
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He had some really good games in Denver. He had one statistic, like scores per snap, that most people don’t look at, which was incredibly good in the games he won, and like it or not, he did win more than he lost.
Just out of curiosity, what are Tebow’s NFL stats so far? Wins/losses, comp/interceptions, TDs, etc?
Thanks. didn’t start watching until the 80s.
I think that’s when passing became big.
But for a while there the quarterback did a lot of running.
I hope there is a way to help him read the field and other receivers faster. Dont know if that’s something that can be learned at 28.
A team can still win with a great defense and a college offense, but no coach really wants to do that anymore, when guys like Brady, Brees, Rodgers, Manning, Flacco etc. can score a TD in under a minute.
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