Posted on 11/06/2011 1:36:23 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
You didn’t think there wasn’t going to be a price to pay for all of this, did you?
Our sports, with our kids targeted to ride shotgun, have been headed this way for years. The cumulative effect of relentlessly marketing bad as good and dismissing good as unmarketable -- the pandering, the silence, the network promos that replaced football with chest-pounders and preeners, the media’s insistence that one play with “a swagger” -- has inevitably brought us to a place that years ago should not have been fed nor watered.
This past Sunday in Denver, during a 45-10 loss to the suddenly smug Lions, Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow twice was openly mocked by two Detroit players acting like drive-time radio wise guys. Tebow’s sin? He’s deeply devoted to his Christian beliefs.
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Fox should have been fired on the spot for taking those points off the board right before halftime. But credit to Tebow, for not letting it phase him, and he led them back in the second half.
Well, sportsmanship has been dead in pro sports (and often in college) for a long time. I am so tired of seeing a player tackle a guy and then stand over him like some sort of dominant male animal or run off and pound his chest and scream. It’s sickening.
These guys are whacked out on adrenaline, then they make the big play, and the crowd is screaming (either encouragement or epithets), what do you think they’re going to do. It’s a violent game played by crazy men, so long as they’re celebrating something that’s legit (I hate when they tackle a guy after he’s made the first down then celebrate) I don’t mind. And it’s not like the tebowing was that huge a deal, guy sacked Tebow, rolled off of him, tebowed for about 1 second, got up and went back to his team mates. The TD guy was even shorter, he didn’t even pull of a full tebow, only got halfway down.
Really folks just gotta stop whining. Tebow is a professional football player, that means between the teams he’ll face and the sports press literally THOUSANDS of people are being paid to be mean to him. That’s their job, defense are paid to make him fail, offenses are paid to outscore him even if he does well, and the press is paid to point out his flaws. That’s how it works for everybody in professional sports. This great hue and cry every time somebody does their job is really silly.
You can say it hindsight, but if they get the TD Fox is brilliant. He had to make the decision without knowing the results. Yeah the CW is never take points off the board, but the other CW is you want 7s not 3s. If he settles for the FG and Oakland uses that “extra” time on the clock to swing down for a TD everybody is saying he should have been fired on the spot for settling for 3.
As crummy as the Lions have been for the last 15-20 years, rooting for them this season would have been really easy now that they’re good (and since I’m a Vikings fan I’m completely disgusted with the state of that organization and its incessant begging for a billion-dollar stadium).
However, I tend to like my winners classy, so I guess I won’t be rooting for Detroit either.
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