Long Island high-school students suspended for 'Tebowing,' mimicking Broncos QB Tim Tebow's prayer pose - NYPost

The Tebow mania sweeping the nation sacked a group of Long Island high-school students who were suspended for mimicking the quarterback’s famous prayer pose.

Twin brothers Tyler and Connor Carroll of Riverhead HS and classmates Jordan Fulcoly and Wayne Drexel were hit with one-day suspensions for kneeling and bowing their heads like Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow does when he scores a touchdown.

Administrators said the weeklong “Tebowing” craze was a distraction and a hallway hazard after dozens of classmates followed their lead.

Monday, ESPNews anchor Adnan Virk, provided a primer in over-writing:

“He’s obviously as famous for scribbling Scripture under his eyes as he is for winning the Heisman Trophy; Tim Tebow is more than a rookie quarterback, he’s also trying to prosteltyze the masses. And that has made him a divisive figure. Some appreciate his evangelical nature, others don’t care for the sermonizing.

“If he plays football as religiously as he preaches his faith, then Broncos fans will believe that their prayers have been answered and that Tebow, indeed, is a God-send.

Phil Mushnick

No. 25: Broncos select Tim Tebow, QB, Florida, GRADE: F
Analysis: By far and away the worst pick in this draft. Wow. How can you justify trading away Cutler and picking this kid. He’s a fifth-round pick — at best. Now we know why Josh McDaniels will last one more year in Denver. Horrible. Just horrible.

Grading the 2010 NFL Draft - CBS News

Only the Tebow pick graded below a C by CBS. Put that on your eyeblack son.

Live with Jerry Jones

matthewcerrone:

“A source sends along this video of a seemingly inebriated Jerry Jones waxing off about Tim Tebow (“he’d never get on the field”), Bill Parcells (“not worth a shit”), and how he got his stadium. Read the rough transcript after the jump.”

In other words, in this day and age, everyone, be it athletes, owners or fans or reporters, it’s best to just assume everything you say is on record… because you never know who is listening.

Shut the f—k up.” Others players in the room then laughed.

At the Wonderlic exam, an exam given to hopeful NFL draftees, Tim Tebow made a request that the players bow their heads in prayer before taking the 50-question exam. 

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The Great Tim Tebow Fallacy - by Richard Dawkins

I gather that Tim Tebow is extremely good at football. That’s just as well, for he certainly isn’t very good at thinking. Perhaps the fact that he was home schooled by missionary parents is to blame. 

The following is what passes for logic in the Tebow mind. His mother was advised by doctors to abort him, but she refused, which is why Tim is here. So abortion is a bad thing. Masterful conclusion. 

It is a version of what, following the great Nobel-Prizewinning biologist Peter Medawar, I have called the Great Beethoven Fallacy. 

Versions of the Great Beethoven Fallacy are attributed to various Christian apologists, and the details vary. The following is the version favoured by Norman St John Stevas, a British Conservative Member of Parliament. One doctor to another:

“About the terminating of pregnancy, I want your opinion. The father was syphilitic. The mother tuberculous. Of the four children born, the first was blind, the second died, the third was deaf and dumb, the fourth was also tuberculous. What would you have done?” 

“I would have terminated the pregnancy.” 

“Then you would have murdered Beethoven.”

It is amazing how many people are bamboozled by this spectacularly stupid argument. Setting aside the simple falsehood that Ludwig van Beethoven was the fifth child in his family (he was actually the eldest), the falsehood that any of his siblings was born blind, deaf or dumb, and the falsehood that his father was syphilitic, we are left with the ‘logic’. As Peter Medawar, writing with his wife, Jean Medawar, said,

“The reasoning behind this odious little argument is breathtakingly fallacious … the world is no more likely to be deprived of a Beethoven by abortion than by chaste absence from intercourse.”

via richarddawkins.net

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