{"id":184092,"date":"2021-02-20T19:42:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tim-tebow-didnt-deserve-this-relentless-public-mockery\/"},"modified":"2021-02-20T19:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T16:42:40","slug":"tim-tebow-didnt-deserve-this-relentless-public-mockery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tim-tebow-didnt-deserve-this-relentless-public-mockery\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tim Tebow didn\u2019t deserve this relentless public mockery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3359a9b6193\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3359a9b6193\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tim-tebow-didnt-deserve-this-relentless-public-mockery\/#Bet_on_tennis_coverage_being_awash_in_gambling_ads\" >Bet on tennis coverage being awash in gambling ads<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tim-tebow-didnt-deserve-this-relentless-public-mockery\/#RU_ready_for_some_big_bills\" >RU ready for some big bills?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Tim Tebow didn\u2019t deserve this relentless public mockery<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With his official retirement from the Mets\u2019 organization last week, Tim Tebow now <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears to have taken his permanent leave from pro sports \u2014 and from being a target of relentless public mockery despite having done nothing worthy of the slightest ridicule.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow was, and is, an unashamedly religious Christian who would reflect and give thanks for his college football successes on bended knee. For that, he was abused, especially by sports radio and other wise-guy forms of sports <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If he was intercepted or fumbled, his faith failed him, hah, hah! Recidivist NFL creeps were treated with more tolerance and sensitivity than was Tebow.<\/p>\n<p>Ignorance didn\u2019t breed the persistent mockery of Tebow, but the quest to sound cool and edgy at his expense did.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow also was a victim of white media reverse racism, as no devoutly religious athlete of any color except white would have been forced to suffer the slings and arrows as he did.<\/p>\n<p>The great NFL defensive tackle Reggie White, who died at 43 in 2004, was every bit as demonstratively a fundamentalist Christian as Tebow. White rarely stopped preaching \u201cThe Word\u201d and giving \u201cglory to God.\u201d But his religious fervor was ignored, admired or celebrated as a cause for his NFL success.<\/p>\n<p>The media even issued White a free pass when he wouldn\u2019t back off his religious beliefs that homosexuality is a ticket to hell.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Tim Tebow retired from baseball this week.\" class=\"wp-image-17371925 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Tim-Tebow-retired-from-baseball-this-week..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Tim-Tebow-retired-from-baseball-this-week..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Tim-Tebow-retired-from-baseball-this-week..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Tim-Tebow-retired-from-baseball-this-week..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Tim-Tebow-retired-from-baseball-this-week..jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Tim Tebow retired from baseball this week.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anthony J Causi<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tebow was given no such breaks, shown no such respect. When he resigned his speaker\u2019s engagement before a church group because it preached that homosexuality is a sin, it made small, brief <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, and Tebow continued to be mocked as a holy rolling fanatic. As a white, devout Christian athlete, he was always the safe choice.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow\u2019s clean sheet became part of the joke. He was never arrested, no drugs or domestic violence charges, no DUIs. He never did anything to bring his sport or himself into disrepute. Yet he was lampooned as an implacable weirdo. But that\u2019s how justice continues. It\u2019s a highly selective, subjective process.<\/p>\n<p>And he took the time to sign autographs for all the kids, kids who didn\u2019t yet know that Tebow, despite that nice baseball or football uniform and smile he wore, had become a target of media derision because he was among the easiest of safe targets \u2014 not a sitting duck, but a genuflecting one.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bet_on_tennis_coverage_being_awash_in_gambling_ads\"><\/span>Bet on tennis coverage being awash in gambling ads<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Though tennis has proven to be among the easiest of sports for gamblers to fix, the telecasts, as seen on the Tennis Channel during the Australian Open, seemed to be owned by the bad-odds sucker-betting operation, DraftKings.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is the studio set decorated with DraftKings ads, panelists, including Martina Navratilova, are attached to the come-ons that include betting mid-match and cuts to the studio for changing odds.<\/p>\n<p>The tennis matches appear almost like time-filler between invites to become a real tennis fan by gambling on the matches.<\/p>\n<p>Is that right? NHL stat lists the top five players in per <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> puck possession. Good stat, no? I don\u2019t know. All five play for losing teams. The leader, Thomas Chabot at 2:43 per, plays for 4-14 Ottawa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-megaphone\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?e=ADL3044282362&amp;light=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When was the last time you sought psychological help because you tuned in to watch a tennis major?<\/p>\n<p>Friday, after the start of the Daniil Medvedev-Stefanos Tsitsipas men\u2019s semifinals in the Australian Open, Tennis Channel\u2019s there-to-distract scroll six times without a break read, \u201cComing Up: Tennis Channel\u2019s coverage of the 2021 Australian Open.\u201d Then, 30 times without a break, the scroll only read \u201cComing Up\u201d before the first scroll resumed its repetition.<\/p>\n<p>And then that entire sequence was repeated. Sanctuary! Not until the fourth game did that scroll disappear.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>The very idea that this year\u2019s NBA All-Star game will be played for any other reason than to meet the financial terms of TNT\u2019s contract to televise it would be to abandon the wisdom that repeats, \u201cFollow the money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To expect Adam Silver to say so makes the question not worth asking in the first place.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"RU_ready_for_some_big_bills\"><\/span>RU ready for some big bills?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Taxpayers supporting student-athletics: Rutgers remains disabled by Big Ten Fever. According to a N.J. Advance Media report this week, the university\u2019s internal sports debt <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/rutgersfootball\/2021\/02\/rutgers-athletics-internal-debt-has-tripled-in-last-2-years-university-wont-say-why.html\">has tripled in the past two years<\/a>, from $45 million in 2019 to $140.3 million as of Jan. 21.<\/p>\n<p>In the last year, Rutgers has laid off more than 1,000 employees to help fill the athletic department\u2019s expanding black hole while also applying rising mandatory student activity fees to athletics.<\/p>\n<p>One day, Rutgers will be remembered for what it was: a darned good and even affordable state college.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"The Rutgers Scarlet Knights mascot \" class=\"wp-image-17371963 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-Rutgers-Scarlet-Knights-mascot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-Rutgers-Scarlet-Knights-mascot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-Rutgers-Scarlet-Knights-mascot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-Rutgers-Scarlet-Knights-mascot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/The-Rutgers-Scarlet-Knights-mascot.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The Rutgers Scarlet Knights mascot <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While we\u2019re at it, Clemson now has two assistant football coaches making in excess of $2 million per year. With head coach Dabo Swinney at $9.5 million per, those three coaches are paid a total of $14 million per.<\/p>\n<p>A fully tenured Clemson academic professor makes about $170,000 per.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>Rush Limbaugh obituaries are moving in on the 21st Century record for including \u201clove him or hate him.\u201d Limbaugh, by the way, in 1979 worked in the Kansas City Royals\u2019 ticket-sales department.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>Matthew Volk \u2014 newly hired VP of Entercom, corporate owner of WFAN among other sports radio stations \u2014 will concentrate on, guess what? That\u2019s right, \u201csports betting content.\u201d Your assignment as a WFAN listener remains the same: Lose your money to Entercom\u2019s partners by gambling on sports.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>Cam Newton, 31-year-old soon-to-be-free-agent QB, last week said, \u201cI\u2019ve spent thousands and thousands of dollars \u2014 maybe even millions of dollars \u2014 on clothes I only wore once.\u201d Smart, spontaneous decision-making is essential among accomplished NFL QBs.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>Reader Joe Napoleone suspects that the Marlins\u2019 decision to allow a 25 percent capacity into its ballpark is a scheme to increase their attendance.<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/02\/20\/tim-tebow-didnt-deserve-this-relentless-public-mockery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Tim Tebow didn\u2019t deserve this relentless public mockery&#8221; With his official retirement from the Mets\u2019 organization last week, Tim Tebow now appears to have taken his permanent leave from pro sports \u2014 and from being a target of relentless public mockery despite having done nothing worthy of the slightest ridicule. Tebow was, and is, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/02\/Tim-Tebow-retired-from-baseball-this-week..jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[94366,75282,37192,81204],"class_list":["post-184092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2-20-21","tag-equal-time","tag-new-york-mets","tag-tim-tebow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}