Posted on 12/18/2011 9:40:34 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
I just saw the most stunning thing: ESPN's pre game show for the NFL just ran a ten minute clip of last week's Chicago-Denver football game featuring Tim Tebow (he wore mic for the game).
It was an amazing goose bump film, but the most amazing thing was the result of the normally hard panned ESPN crew of Chris Berman, Mike Ditka, Chris Carter, Keyshawn Johnson and Tom Jackson.
I think they were all on the verge of tears. Chris Berman could barely get the conversation going when the film was over. Am I imagining this?
(will post a video as soon as one hits - this was hot off the wire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grM2sb7VYSs
Go Tebow!
Chris Carter was quoting scripture afterwards...had to do a double take...excellent.
Didn’t you?
I did not see it, but I can not imagine that either Berman was faking or you are imagining. Berman is the worst of the worst at ESPN. He has spearheaded turning it from a network sponsored in part by conservative money to the leftist backwater it is today.
Yes I did - but I share Tim’s faith, Tim’s horrible singing talent, and “Awesome God” is my favorite inspirational song as well. I doubt the rough and tumble cast of this show share all that.
I still shed a tear watching “October Sky” and “The Rookie.”
What a fantastic God we worship who can use someone like Tebow showing his might and having all spectators marvel at the Lord’s greatness through his servant. Tebow is a blessed man to have the Lord use him like this.
Berman was not faking - now whether I was imagining is another thing altogether. That’s why I was hoping to get feedback from those who had seen it or would later see a video of it.
His voice was very gutteral the way we all are when we are trying to talk through an inclination to break down. But I am not 100% sure.
And BTW, I think Keith Olbermann led the charge for ESPN to be more blatanly leftist - which is not necessary anyway. Most media weenies, even in sports, are knee jerk liberals. I doubt Berman was the reason. And FTR, Berman is the most gifted football highlight commentator in history IMO.
And I think he was moved by Tebow’s faith and his genuiness and the power of that short film.
>> What a fantastic God we worship who can use someone like Tebow showing his might and having all spectators marvel at the Lord’s greatness through his servant. Tebow is a blessed man to have the Lord use him like this. >>
Which BTW is exactly what I think is happening with all of this. I have always been very skeptical of thinking that God is intervening in the outcome of sporting events - but I gotta tell you - I have no other explanation for this.
And more to the point, there is no other explanation to the incredible attention Tebow is getting all over the world — both pro can con.
I can’t wait to see this!
The ESPN documentary on Tebow that aired on ABC yesterday was outstanding, and moving. Also never realized how bed-ridden sick Tebow was the day before the Senior Bowl disaster.
The video Cain Conservative posted is the awesome ten minute film - but make sure you stay on the look out for a video of the studio reaction to it (I am looking for one hard as I can search).
Berman losing it, Ditka seeming to, Carter quoting scripture and Tom Jackson saying it’s the most amazing 8 game stretch in Denver Bronco history.....etc ....etc...
The video is awesome. The studio reaction is priceless as well. I was just stunned at both.
With a few exceptions I think most of the ESPN crew is not anti Tebow.
What years was Olbermann at ESPN? I can’t remember.
>> With a few exceptions I think most of the ESPN crew is not anti Tebow. >>
You may be right, and I think the ‘anti Tebow” crew has gotten smaller each week. But this video and reaction was way above and beyond the anti Tebow pro Tebow debate that has gripped the sports media. This is must see video.
Tebow is a winner and a leader and makes everyone around him better.
Tebow is a winner and a leader and makes everyone around him better.
Not sure, but the team of Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick is the team that really propelled “Sports Center” to the top of the cable heap. That along with Berman’s football and baseball highlights/nicknames plus glomming onto mass televising of college basketball with Dick Vitale are probably the three keys’ to ESPN’s amazing ascendance.
I would guess Olbermann has been gone maybe ten years? Sure it can be googled.
>> Tebow is a winner and a leader and makes everyone around him better.>>
Agreed, and this is really demonstrated in this film.
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