Be sure to check out this article from Jelisa Castrodale from NBC sports on why there’s so much hate for Tebow. Here are some excerpts:
Then there are those who sit with their hands hovering expectantly over their keyboards, just waiting for what they’ll see as his inevitable misstep…They want him to be exposed as a phony, a fraud or — to borrow a word from the New Testament — a hypocrite. I don’t see that happening. Just because Tebow has character doesn’t mean he’s playing one.
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Maybe it’s hard to like Tebow because he makes us feel worse about our lives. Not in an MTV Cribs “I’ll never have a pair of solid gold pants” kind of way, but because he’s held himself to a standard that we know we can’t reach. When we ask ourselves “What would Tim Tebow do?”, the answer — at least for me — is “Not this.” He wouldn’t pocket the stack of change from Exxon’s Take A Penny jar. He wouldn’t ignore the elderly woman struggling to push her groceries to her car. He wouldn’t make snap judgments about NFL sophomores who play two time zones to the left.
Maybe that’s why it’s easier to embrace a me-first NBA player who calls himself “King James” than to accept the humble NFL-er who quotes King James. Maybe that’s why Tebow’s around-the-clock commitment to Christ is a tougher sell than the empty gestures airmailed from the end zone, why we no longer notice when every third-down back high-fives the Almighty after a garbage-time touchdown.
