# Fuck you, Tim Tebow **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 17, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319 "2010-01-17T15:34:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/41 "2010-01-18T23:22:25Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > I’d rather have Michael Vick on my team than an asshole who associates with James Dobson. > [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Christ, **dalej42** ’s Cardinals already have Kurt Warner, who would certainly step in and do this commercial if Tebow were unable. [Kurt Warner on Focus on the Family’s “Daily Broadcast”.](http://listen.family.org/daily/A000001780.cfm) With James Dobson. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/42 "2010-01-18T23:55:59Z")
It’s funny I opened this up to find out who Tim Tebow was. But somehow I knew it was going to be another pitting of someone for holding mainstream right-wing views. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/43 "2010-01-18T23:59:01Z")
A leeeetle more right, than mainstream. He’s pretty evangelical. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/44 "2010-01-19T07:11:35Z")
I think at this point we only know he’s a devout Christian that has the unfortunate practice of putting Bible versus under his eyes and does missionary work in poor countries during the off season. I have no idea how he feels about immigration, taxation, corporate bail outs, etc. According to the link his mother was encouraged to have an abortion while he was in utero, but declined. Someone asked him to do a spot about this. He’s still basically a kid, so may not be aware of other Focus on the Family memes, such as the whole anti-gay thing. At least I hope so. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in the short term and he certainly has the right to put out an “abortion is bad” message. When he starts lining up with Phelps and company, or otherwise shows he’s an intolerant douche bag, then I’ll be the first to throw shots his way. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/45 "2010-01-19T07:52:46Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > It’s funny I opened this up to find out who Tim Tebow was. But somehow I knew it was going to be another pitting of someone for holding mainstream right-wing views. I didn’t know believing that homosexuals “want to destroy marriage” was a mainstream view. I thought it was a little out of the majority even for conservatives. Abortion, I’ll give you, but most of what I’ve heard about Focus on the Family was the anti-gay stuff (and the whole comparing the U.S. to Nazi Germany thing during the election). (Source: [Wikipedia article on the org](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus_on_the_Family).) ETA: Or are you referring to JUST the things Tebow talked about in the OP? Even with that, I think the Pitting is more about his membership in the organization, and what that seems to say about his beliefs, than what he’s directly expressed so far. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/46 "2010-01-19T14:14:41Z")
Just read a blurb on USA Today about this. Per the article, Dobson has “retired” from Focus on the Family and started a competing organization. Don’t know how, if at all, that might change their message. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/47 "2010-01-19T14:43:19Z")
Here’s another QB who has gone over to the Dark Side: Doug Flutie was spotted at a recent Tea Party with Mass. Senate candidate Scott Brown. ---
**Author:** ![maladroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@maladroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maladroit)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/48 "2010-01-19T18:45:58Z")
Thanks for solving for me the mystery of what the text in their eyeblack was all about. The last time I went to the bar I sat directly under their huge screen and accidentally saw some football. I tried to google it later but lacked the term “eyeblack”. My distant perception of team sports is vague, but it seems to me that writing philosophical messages on one’s self divides a team that otherwise is centered around a geographical consideration (maybe I’ve misunderstood this point, I’m ignorant of Big Sports). Now the team is broken into subsets. Is this what sports fans want? Is this what team owners want? I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/49 "2010-01-19T20:26:40Z")
> [@ivn1188](#): > > It’s not the country. These posters get outraged over one small facet of a person’s **makeup**. If intentional pun: HAHAHAHAHAH! If not intentional: Hey, did anyone notice the pun? Huh? Didja? Huh? It’s FUNNY! > [@ivn1188](#): > > I’m sure none of them know Tim Tebow, but he has been convicted and found guilty of disagreeing with them. > > Of course, every person most likely has a wrong belief or two. But the posters here are not interested in anything but venting their outrage about religious people. > > What they _are_ interested in is getting attention and vindication of their self-image (which is central to their ego - if you disagree with them, you are implicitly questioning their worth as a human being in their minds). > > So of course, lots of people paying attention to a football player hurts their self-esteem. It’s sort of sad, in a way. Posting stuff in the pit that everyone will agree with is a way for them to make up for the blow to their ego. **Ivn** , come 'ere. We need to talk. Listen, buddy, the Pit’s not big enough for both of us to go running around, mocking the other posters for padding their own egos with threads about SDMB classic topics like conservatism and religion. We’ve got to get a little distance between out schticks. Tell you what, I’ll take the threads that start with letters A-M, you take N-Z, ok? ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/50 "2010-01-19T20:28:32Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Listen, buddy, the Pit’s not big enough for both of us to go running around, mocking the other posters for padding their own egos with threads about SDMB classic topics like conservatism and religion. We’ve got to get a little distance between out schticks. Tell you what, I’ll take the threads that start with letters A-M, you take N-Z, ok? Dunno. I think a tag team approach might make for a more thrilling match. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/51 "2010-01-19T21:31:50Z")
> [@Condescending\_Robot](#): > > someone else believes that homosexuals should be denied equal rights, that women should be turned into baby-making machines with no free will, that Jews should be put into camps, etc etc etc, OF COURSE people who believe differently than me is wrong and deserving of contempt, and OF COURSE I would object to him continuing to push his beliefs without consequence. **Tim Tebow is anti-abortion, and thus, necessarily, hates women and is in league with murderers and theocrats.** If you really believe this is true of everyone who is anti-abortion (or even anti-gay marriage), then you are truly an idiot. And you win the Godwin award to boot. ---
**Author:** ![Condescending\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a183cd/32.png) [@Condescending\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Condescending_Robot)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/52 "2010-01-19T21:45:50Z")
Let me guess, you’re another one of those people who’s just so concerned about LIIIIIFE as long as it’s in fetal form, but have all sorts of reasons why Iraqi, Mexican, and homosexual lives don’t count, and oppose the sex education and contraception that would actually reduce the abortion rate? Pardon me if I don’t buy into your bullshit about the motives of Christian supremacists. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/53 "2010-01-19T21:51:11Z")
Let me guess: you were dropped on your head as a child. Repeatedly. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/54 "2010-01-19T21:55:58Z")
> [@Condescending\_Robot](#): > > Let me guess, you’re another one of those people who’s just so concerned about LIIIIIFE as long as it’s in fetal form, but have all sorts of reasons why Iraqi, Mexican, and homosexual lives don’t count, and oppose the sex education and contraception that would actually reduce the abortion rate? Pardon me if I don’t buy into your bullshit about the motives of Christian supremacists. Guess again. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/55 "2010-01-19T23:12:49Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Guess again. Ooh oh, let me guess: You people like to guess a lot! “What do you mean **YOU People**?”/Tropic Thunder ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/56 "2010-01-20T03:06:13Z")
Obligatory Tebow concussion video, courtesy of the Kentucky Wildcats. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viIKnNvzzfM) Sunshine And Lollipops, indeed… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/57 "2010-01-20T03:23:59Z")
Who would have thought that a homeschooled son of Christian missionaries would grow up to have socially conservative views? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/58 "2010-01-20T04:26:29Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Who would have thought that a homeschooled son of Christian missionaries would grow up to have socially conservative views? Yeah, what a shocker, right? Anyway, I just on principle despise overt displays of religious behavior, particularly in the corrupted, evil, gambling and drug-infested world of sports that I enjoy so much, chief amongst them being football. Anyone that draws any overt attention to themselves over their religious beliefs to me is generally viewed with a jaundiced and askance eye towards behavior that is diametrically opposed to their espoused beliefs amongst so many self-proclaimers and grandstanders. I happen to hold ill-defined Christian-based religious beliefs, but I’ll always agree with Bill Maher on the sports action: “God doesn’t care who wins the game!”. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/59 "2010-01-20T13:49:58Z")
God is a Buccaneers fan. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319/60 "2010-01-20T16:11:27Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > God is a Buccaneers fan. Well, he was, until his disciple left the Bucs for Peyton Manning and the Colts. Word is that now God doesn’t follow football at all anymore. At least that’s what the cherubim are saying. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-you-tim-tebow/525319.md?page=4)