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.