For years all I have heard from fans is “where are all the good guys at?” A fair question when talking about professional athletes and their lifestyles away from the game.
From stars who have been accused of rape to the ones who actually have done jail time we need more role models our kids can look up to with strong character.
Charles Barkley made it very clear about 20 years ago that he isn’t a “role model” and I agree with him that parents, teachers and coaches should be the focal point in a child’s development. The truth is athletes are as influential as anyone in a young person’s life.
I mean how can they not be? Everywhere you look there are athletes on television, cereal boxes and the Internet. We push professional athletes on kids in hopes to grab their attention, most of the time to sell a product.
But isn’t it important what athletes we do this with? Shouldn’t it matter what his or her personality and character is really like? From what I see and hear now a days it’s not.
I’m not here by any means to say that Tim Tebow is perfect because he is not and he would be the first to tell you that. What I am here to say is that the sports world is better because of Tebow and guys like him.
Yes he was dead last in the NFL in completion percentage, and at times looked like a below average quarterback but he got the job done. Isn’t that what life is all about sometimes? Not about the road but the destination.
Can’t we use Tebow as inspiration to our kids and say that here is a young man with strong religious beliefs that with hard work and dedication is doing things people have said he can’t do.
Why does he have to hide his religion? Why in a society where it’s ok to drink and get highly intoxicated in public, its completely acceptable to look like a damn fool because perception is it’s “cool” or that’s “what’s people” do? Yet a man can’t kneel down and thank HIS God for the blessings in his life.
Breaking News people, “Tebowing” is nothing new! It’s something athletes have been doing for years and will continue to do. Reggie White, one of the greatest defensive players of all time was extremely religious and it was acceptable. Now it’s not?
I’m not sure if race at all plays a factor into the whole Tebowmania but what I do know is the media is playing a major role in the dislike of Tebow. An Espn channel can’t be turned on without his name being mentioned, I mean I’m a fan but at times it gets to me.
This is something you see playing out with his former teammates in Denver, the idea that they didn’t get enough recognition as Tebow got last year. Funny enough the same guys that were (1-4) before #15 got under center.
I don’t know how Tebow’s career will end. I don’t know if it will be in New York or if he will even start at quarterback again, frankly I don’t care.
What I do care about is this young man has made a positive impact on sports where most have forgotten. This kid has taken on the burden of standing alone for what he believes without hesitation. And for that I thank him and the man he is.
So the next time you want to question “where are all the good guys?” Realize they are around, just educate yourself on what the important characteristics are so you can properly identify them.
I feel like Tebow has been championed PLENTY as a good guy. Heck, Elway alluded to the same just before he cut him. That being said, people are waiting for this “new” celebrity to falter. (Whilst he’s been in football as a sport for more than a decade, he’s only be a national mega-phenomenon for a year or so)
Haters will ALWAYS hate, but time will thin their herd.
Agreed that Tebow is DEFINATELY a GREAT role model.
Most fans are the most indecisive judging group of people you will ever meet. Fanatics believe that because they buy season tickets that they can demand the heroine for their club. Tebow is not at all better than Payton however, wasn’t it not the Denver fans who chanted his name while Orton had the start, which gave him the starting position. Fanatics then watched as ELWAY traded away Denver’s best WR Brandon Llyod knowing that Tebow wasn’t that accurate. Humm… let’s not get on my Elway Conspiracy Theory. The Tebowmania was so successful, because of all the doubters, haters, and envious people, and how Tebow responded to them. Not to mention, that most people hate a constant winner, because that means there is a constant loser.
Tebow WINS games for Denver, galloped on a white horse to be Denver’s hero, like a Gator chomped down Elway’s plot to cause him to fail, and his reward; he gets jetted off to the Jets! Not even allowed to be the Broncos backup, to learn from the greatest perhaps of all-time Manning. Good guys will always finish last, if you don’t believe me ask Brandon Marshall or PacMan Jones.
The fans do not want a good guy potentially a great role model for their children. They want a bad “a**” who can win games, because as long as you win the fans don’t care if you rape a 14 year old girl or get caught selling cocaine as long as your holding that trophy up at the end of the season, who cares for a good role model.