No, seriously: Tim Tebow accidentally hits a fan in the balls with an errant throw that only Tim Tebow could be capable of making
All through the day, I couldn’t really find anything I wanted to write about. Perusing through usual local and national outlets, looking for anything that seemed interesting to write about, scanning through sports sites and pop-culture sites to see if anything sparked any inspiration, no dice. As much as I hate to do so, it looked like it would be a day in which I wouldn’t have something to write about, as the goings in my life aren’t particularly fascinating currently and there’s little there to write about either.
And then a story about Tim Tebow accidentally nailing a guy in the nuts with a bad throw shows up, I make the not bad face and now I’ve got something to write about. The internet giveth.
Honestly, the story itself is nothing home to write about, despite the layers of irony there is about Tim Tebow making a bad throw, despite it being in baseball and not football. To nobody’s surprise, Tebow personally dissuaded the situation, by checking in on the guy whose nuts he rang, signed some stuff, probably said some prayers and bowed their heads, and everyone went home all smiles and happy. Story over. But that’s what Tim Tebow does with people, personally, engages them, is friendly to them, and everyone walks away better for the encounter.
What I really wanted to write about was that I don’t really understand all the flack, hate and criticism that Tim Tebow gets from the vast majority of people out there, and that personally I think he’s a pretty outstanding human being and hope he finds success in any and all endeavors that he embarks on.
I get that sports fans of Ohio State, Tennessee, Florida State, and most SEC programs in the nation other than Alabama probably dislike Tebow, because he was the quarterback of frankly on one of the most dominant windows a college football program could have with Florida, and dominated everyone en route to two national championships and a Heisman along the way. But along the way, he was dogged by endless criticism over his passing ability and that he was a quality quarterback, despite the fact that he had like a 170 QB rating and rushed for over 50 TDs through his college career.
And even before he was even drafted in the NFL, the massive criticism hung with him and everyone questioned his ability to succeed in the pros. Undeterred and unphased by all of it, Tebow persevered and put in his usual hard work and effort, and led the Broncos to the playoffs in 2011 including a win against the Steelers before falling to god himself, Tom Brady. And then he was bounced around to a few teams before the colluding NFL collectively decided that a guy that still looks like this today, couldn’t play somewhere in their stupid league.
Ultimately, I always felt that the vast majority of the ridicule he was subject to was mostly on account of his very open and known Christian faith. I’m not particularly into religion myself, but I have no problem with those who are in tune with their preferred faith. Furthermore, I don’t see it as justifiable reason to incessantly criticize a person and to question their completely unrelated professional lives on account of it. Sure, Tebow kneeled after touchdowns and thanked the lord in all his interviews, but what professional athlete doesn’t display some shows of faith in the public eye? Maybe Tebow did it a little bit more than the average Latin ballplayer acknowledges the man upstairs, but still I don’t think he’s a reason to question his existence.
Whatever though, Tebow minded his own business and did Tebow after his football career ended, even if the horrible rest of the world still saw fit to take jabs at him unprovoked.
If anything at all, Tebow did the troll world a favor by deciding to play professional baseball, because it suddenly gave snarky assholes something to aim their crosshairs at all over again. Sure, Tebow’s plight into pro-ball is something that so very few people in the world are capable of doing, and I’d be the first to admit that the only reason he’s on an MLB-affiliated roster now is mostly because of the potential publicity he brings, but honestly, I want to see the guy succeed.
Not just because success from Tebow would be a great big middle finger to all the people who detract him, but because I think he’s a good human being and I want to see good human beings gain success from their efforts.
Let’s be real here too, despite being greener than an early-career Lex Luger, Tim Tebow is still a physical specimen of a man, and he can hit a baseball harder and further than most people saying he can’t, and he’s got all the physical tools to be a perfectly serviceable ballplayer, if he just had some substantial practice and repetitions. If anyone can fabricate a successful baseball career out of hard-earned physical tools and willingness to work at it, it’s Tim Tebow, and I hope he succeeds.
Even if he hits a few fans in the balls along the way, lol
