Posted on 03/07/2024 3:57:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
Tim Tebow, a former NFL quarterback, spoke before Congress on the subject of human trafficking as well as strategies to stop the rise of child exploitation.
On Wednesday, Tebow visited Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where he proposed legislation, “to enhance the capability to identify and locate the more than 50,000 unidentified children who are being abused, raped and tortured.”
“To sum it up, we strive to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves,” Tebow said.
The former NFL star emphasized that there needed to be more precautions enacted in order to inhibit the online distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) during the hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Government Surveillance.
Tebow also sobbed during his introductory remarks as he began reading a letter that a victim of sexual abuse had personally written to him.
“Rescue me. Help me. Monsters are chasing. Can’t you see? Monsters are whispering. Can’t you hear? Monsters are shouting you are nothing. Can’t you feel my pain?” Tebow read.
He implored lawmakers to support and approve a bill that would create and fund a rescue squad, the mission of which would be to locate and rescue children who are being sexually abused and exploited. He applied pressure for lawmakers to act swiftly.
“But if all we do today is speak, all I do is speak, I also missed the mark. We have to do more than just talk about it. We have to act on it and be about it,” Tebow said.
Tebow is the founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation, which is a Christian organization that works to protect vulnerable and abused children.
The left does not view people as individuals and does not even view children as people. The democRATs seem to be trying to normalize pedophiles.
Mr. Tebow, I’m still wondering why you never took the NFL to court.
I’ll bet you had one mother of a discrimination lawsuit.
He had better things to do.
He had very good things to do.
But I’ll bet he can also multitask.
I hope he didn’t allow the NFL to buy his silence.
Not sure how he’d have any grounds for a discrimination suit.
His issue was his football performance in the NFL while he was there. His skill set was simply not good enough. He couldn’t read defenses well enough and he couldn’t throw consistently enough. I say this as someone who watched him closely at that time.
It wasn’t that he was an overt Christian. I have always felt it would have made no difference at all if he could have played well or consistently enough.
I admired and liked him, as a fan. Seems like a genuine, upstanding guy.
That is possible.
I hear that argument, performance. A lot.
You know what the ultimate indicator for performance is in the NFL?
Butts in the seats, eyes on the screen, and merch sales.
Tebow excelled at all three.
Was very good on the field to my mind.
And had no issues that EVER were detrimental to his teams or his leagues.
Not good enough for the NFL...?
SNORT.
I really had wish he’d sued.
If he had, and won, it could have gone a long way to cleaning up the league.
And hubby and I would still be watching pro football.
I’m assuming you don’t know much about football because even a 5th grader with a casual interest in the game would know that those are putrid numbers that would get a high school quarterback benched.
I have to disagree. What you said may be true in college, but it isn’t in the pros.
I went to a lot of games back then when Tebow played for the Patriots, I had season tickets, and I followed podcasts and practice updates, so I was well versed in what he could and could not do. And Coach Belichick wanted to give him every chance to succeed.
And I was pulling for him, too, I watched him very closely. Every play that I could watch in practice and in games, I rooted for him to succeed. I listened, up to five or six podcasts a week, to all the analysis on podcasts by professional players who knew, and...he was gutsy, had character, and played hard. And I wasn’t the only one. I knew lots of people just as immersed in the sport as I was who were rooting hard for him, but they could only shake their head with the tacit understanding, after watching him, that he wasn’t good or consistent enough.
The player I think he was closest in skill set in the Pros was Colin Kapernick. And Kapernick wasn’t good enough, physically or mentally, and the league was pushing hard...really hard to get him to stick somewhere. However, Kapernick did not even have the strong character and toughness that might have helped him overcome his shortcomings. Worse, he was locker room poison.
Tebow DID have that toughness and character, and by all accounts was a great locker room presence, but in the end, he simply wasn’t good enough at the pro level. And I think he knew it, too. He played hard, but in his position skill does matter.
I don’t follow football anymore, after being a rabid fan for nearly fifty years. They have made it abundantly clear, in both words and deeds, that they don’t want or need my patronage.
I watched something in addition.
I watched ratings and demos, ad revenue, ticket sales, ticket prices, merch revenue.
Tebow was great for the fans, his teams and his league.
And the NFL still got rid of him.
Hey, NFL, how’s that kinda thinking working out for you, eh?
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Tim Tebow’s won/loss record as a starting NFL quarterback was better than average, and he was an exciting player.
Still, there are those that boldly argue the NFL is not politically woke and is not influenced by outside pressure.
Any team can sign any player who hasn't been suspended by the league.
He just wasn't good enough to play quarterback in the NFL. He knew it better than anyone else -- as evidenced by his decisions to: (1) try playing another position, and (2) pursue a professional baseball career.
Hoage was a phenomenal player at Georgia. Coach Vince Dooley called him the greatest defensive player he ever coached, and maybe the best he had ever seen. He was a two-time All-American, played on Georgia's national championship team in 1980 as a freshman, and finished 6th in the Heisman Trophy voting in 1983 (this was rare for a defensive back in those days).
Despite all these accomplishments, NFL scouts weren't very high on him. He had all the tools and the attitude to be a great professional athlete, but his skill set just didn't fit the NFL very well at the time -- he was too slow to be a top defensive back, and too small to be a linebacker. He was drafted in the 3rd round and somehow (remarkably) managed to play for more than 12 years in the NFL -- mostly as a backup safety and a regular on special teams.
1. He was drafted by the Denver Broncos in 2010, then traded to the Jets in 2013.
2. New England signed him in 2013 and then cut him the same year.
3. Philadelphia signed him in 2015 and cut him the same year.
4. Same story with Jacksonville in 2021.
This is not the career progression you'd see for anyone who was even a viable BACKUP quarterback in the NFL.
He simply was not good or consistent enough to make it, and he had plenty of opportunities to make it. That isn’t an opinion-it is a fact.
His regular season career statistics as a pro were this:
Overall record: 8–6, Pass Attempts: 173/361 for 47.9% for 2,422 yards, 6.7 Yards per attempt, for 17 TD and 9 interceptions for a 75.3 rating
While his TD/INT ratio wasn’t awful, that 48% completion is what a starting quarterback in the NFL might have been able to get by with back in 1970 (where 7 out of 24 starting quarterbacks that year had completion percentages under 50%, including some quarterbacks fans might recognize such as Terry Bradshaw, Craig Morton, Joe Kapp, Jim Hart, and John Hadl) but that percentage would not cut it in 2010.
As much as I like and respect Tim Tebow, an 8-6 record overall and a 48% percentage completion is not good enough, not even by a long shot.
That said, his fan base is still big, and they get to choose what they think is important and true for them. Which is fine. I respect their enthusiasm for a solid person (again, who I like and admire) which the NFL is lacking in at many levels these days.
The NFL exists to make money.
Tebow was good for the bottom line.
They got rid of him anyway.
At the same time the league continued and continues to have players on the payroll that were and are far less productive and/or engaged in behavior that was/is detrimental to their teams and the league.
Why?
Here’s a way to to find out...
Someone ask Tebow a yes or no question: Are you party to any NDA involving the NFL.
If Tebow answers anything other than a definitive negative, then I’d say there’s something to my theory.
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