Sigh... Tebow helps set up hospital...

[arglebargle]

Not a huge fan of the media frenzy and cult of personality around him. However, I've always felt you have to look at all aspects of a situation, not just the parts that appeal to your views.

That left handed bit aside, just ran across this bit of Tebow charity work. The man puts his money where his mouth is, and I always respect that. He's helping to set up a charity hospital in the Philipines. Thought his fans who might have missed this would appreciate seeing the story.

http://news.yahoo.com/philippine-bo...NhdANoZWFsdGgEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

 

[Doomsday101]

Not a huge fan of the media frenzy and cult of personality around him. However, I've always felt you have to look at all aspects of a situation, not just the parts that appeal to your views.

That left handed bit aside, just ran across this bit of Tebow charity work. The man puts his money where his mouth is, and I always respect that. He's helping to set up a charity hospital in the Philipines. Thought his fans who might have missed this would appreciate seeing the story.

http://news.yahoo.com/philippine-bo...NhdANoZWFsdGgEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

Thing is this is who he is. He was doing Missionary work in the Philipines before he went to Florida and before people even know who Tebow was.

 

[arglebargle]

Thing is this is who he is. He was doing Missionary work in the Philipines before he went to Florida and before people even know who Tebow was.

I know. I know. Despite all the media foofarah, I have to respect his actions. Tebow doesn't go work summers in an orphanage because he thinks it will look good on TV.

 

[DFWJC]

Thing is this is who he is. He was doing Missionary work in the Philipines before he went to Florida and before people even know who Tebow was.

The frenzy around him can be annoying, but I have no doubts about his sincerity.
Good for him and especially good for some needy young ones in the Phillippines.

 

[Doomsday101]

The frenzy around him can be annoying, but I have no doubts about his sincerity.
Good for him and especially good for some needy young ones in the Phillippines.

I understand that. I have doubts about him as an NFL QB and yes the media gets carried away but in the day and age of news coming out of sports of this player raping a girl, this player pulling a gun and shooting someone or himself, this guy getting busted with drugs well excuse me if I find Tebow a refreshing story.

 

[dez_for_prez]

It wouldn't surprise me to see him out of football in 5-8 years (whether or not this is his choosing) doing bigger and better things.

 

[vta]

Charles Barkely called it the national nightmare. I guess people are really only happy to hear about horrible people doing horrible things.

OJ trial, Rae Carruth trial, Ray Lewis involvement in a crime, Natalie Halloway death-dissapearance, Casey Anthony's ugly mug all over the news. All were given way more attention than Tebow, yet the outcry over the 24 hour coverage for these unfortunate events was not nearly as indignant.

 

[zrinkill]

Charles Barkely called it the national nightmare. I guess people are really only happy to hear about horrible people doing horrible things.

OJ trial, Rae Carruth trial, Ray Lewis involvement in a crime, Natalie Halloway death-dissapearance, Casey Anthony's ugly mug all over the news. All were given way more attention than Tebow, yet the outcry over the 24 hour coverage for these unfortunate events was not nearly as indignant.

Great freaking post.

 

[The30YardSlant]

I don't understand why some people just can't accept that he MIGHT actually be a genuinely good human being and not playing it up for the media.

 

[vta]

I don't understand why some people just can't accept that he MIGHT actually be a genuinely good human being and not playing it up for the media.

I don't think too many doubt he's genuine - that's probably the problem. That he in fact is and they don't want to hear it.

 

[Gooch]

Thing is this is who he is. He was doing Missionary work in the Philipines before he went to Florida and before people even know who Tebow was.

Tebow was actually born in the Phillipines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tebow

 

[Doomsday101]

Tebow was actually born in the Phillipines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tebow

He does not look Pilipino. :laugh2:

Yeah I know his parents did missionary work there.

 

[Wimbo]

Check out this article on him... this guy rocks. People like Tebow should be celebrated... what if just one day a week, everyone gave of themselves as much as he does...? I think the world would be a better place.

I believe in Tim Tebow

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I've come to believe in Tim Tebow, but not for what he does on a football field, which is still three parts Dr. Jekyll and two parts Mr. Hyde.


No, I've come to believe in Tim Tebow for what he does off a football field, which is represent the best parts of us, the parts I want to be and so rarely am.


Who among us is this selfless?


Every week, Tebow picks out someone who is suffering, or who is dying, or who is injured. He flies these people and their families to the Broncos game, rents them a car, puts them up in a nice hotel, buys them dinner (usually at a Dave & Buster's), gets them and their families pregame passes, visits with them just before kickoff (!), gets them 30-yard-line tickets down low, visits with them after the game (sometimes for an hour), has them walk him to his car, and sends them off with a basket of gifts.


Home or road, win or lose, hero or goat.


Remember last week, when the world was pulling its hair out in the hour after Tebow had stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers with an 80-yard OT touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas in the playoffs? And Twitter was exploding with 9,420 tweets about Tebow per second? When an ESPN poll was naming him the most popular athlete in America?


Tebow was spending that hour talking to 16-year-old Bailey Knaub about her 73 surgeries so far and what TV shows she likes.

Read more: http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7455943/believing-tim-tebow

 

[vta]

Check out this article on him... this guy rocks. People like Tebow should be celebrated... what if just one day a week, everyone gave of themselves as much as he does...? I think the world would be a better place.

I believe in Tim Tebow/QUOTE]

Yeah, a real good guy with the right perspective. I've never been a bandwagon-er, but I'm fast a fan of this man. I'd even consider getting a Tebow jersey if the money went to something good.

From the same article

"Just the opposite," Tebow says. "It's by far the best thing I do to get myself ready. Here you are, about to play a game that the world says is the most important thing in the world. Win and they praise you. Lose and they crush you. And here I have a chance to talk to the coolest, most courageous people. It puts it all into perspective. The game doesn't really matter. I mean, I'll give 100 percent of my heart to win it, but in the end, the thing I most want to do is not win championships or make a lot of money, it's to invest in people's lives, to make a difference."

 

[burmafrd]

it is because he is openly religious. That is not allowed in the US in this day and age without a lot of mean spirited A holes wanting to scream about it

 

[Doomsday101]

it is because he is openly religious. That is not allowed in the US in this day and age without a lot of mean spirited A holes wanting to scream about it

True but his conviction allows him to pay no attention to those people.

 

[Muhast]

Thing is this is who he is. He was doing Missionary work in the Philipines before he went to Florida and before people even know who Tebow was.

ESPN went to the Phillipines to film part of it, they did an entire segment on it at one point.

I am somewhat conflicted, part of me feels like it's wrong to go do missionary work and then have a TV crew follow you around so they can document your good deeds... But part of me thinks he was willing to allow it to further spread the word of God and get his message of faith out there.

Eitherway, as a football player like him or hate him, but as a person nobody can dislike him.

 

[rickwil61]

ESPN went to the Phillipines to film part of it, they did an entire segment on it at one point.

I am somewhat conflicted, part of me feels like it's wrong to go do missionary work and then have a TV crew follow you around so they can document your good deeds... But part of me thinks he was willing to allow it to further spread the word of God and get his message of faith out there.

Eitherway, as a football player like him or hate him, but as a person nobody can dislike him.

I'm sure ESPN is doing the story. I seriously doubt he is doing any kind of missionary work so that it'll get on TV.

 

[SkinsandTerps]

I will never understand why these famous people don't start in their own backyard.

Plenty of people need help here too.

Not to say he isn't a good guy because it is very honorable for him to bother at all.

 

[tyke1doe]

I will never understand why these famous people don't start in their own backyard.

Plenty of people need help here too.

Not to say he isn't a good guy because it is very honorable for him to bother at all.

That's just the thing, though. Many people here are getting help because we have many rich Americans.

But I can understand his devotion to the Phillipines because he was born there, his parents were missionaries there and both they and he know the needs of that country.