Tim Tebow Super Bowl Ad Controversy (my thoughts)

[Spokane Gary]

Below is a snippet from my longer piece that I wrote on my blog concerning Tim Tebow and the Super Bowl commercial. If you get the time, check it out and perhaps leave a comment of your thoughts on it. Thanks a lot!

http://www.searchingforchetbaker.com...ersy-over.html

Tim Tebow, the former Heisman winning quarterback for the Florida Gators, is a very religious and spiritual man. That much, pretty much anyone who knows ANYTHING about him is well aware of. He's been on the record as saying that he hopes that his abilities in the sports world, which he attributes to God, enables him to further his message for Christianity to more and more people.

And now he's taking that step by filming a pro-life commercial to be aired during the Super Bowl in a few weeks. He's teamed up with James Dobson's Focus on the Family to produce this commercial which has many people upset.

We all have the right to voice our opinions, and Tebow has the right to voice his opinions, even those that I am fundamentally opposed to. However, now Tebow is putting himself out there front and center by taking part in a commercial for "Focus on the Family" to be aired during the Super Bowl, in which he talks about his mother's troubled pregnancy with him, where she was sick in the Phillipines. She was urged to have an abortion, and instead she had him, and he went on to greatness on the College Football stage.

As a Christian, I don't really have a problem with this. He comes off as a very positive man, someone who walks the walk, so to speak. He doesn't seem to be a hypocritical person.

This isn't the case of a politician who is vehemently anti-gay rights, and is a closeted homosexual. Tim Tebow is someone who is strong in his convictions, and so I don't really have a problem with it, because he's sincere.

There are many, however, who are opposed to this. While I'm not someone who believes that politics and the sports world should mingle, I don't have as BIG a problem with it, considering who it is.

[RedHorse]

After going to your site and reading the entire blog, we seem to agree.

People seem to be pretty set on this issue, and an 'ad' during the Super Bowl won't change that.

'Choice' for me, is the key word. She chose.

On a side note, wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed your blog of Nov. 16, " We Killed the Genius Artist". Encouraged my two adult sons to read it.

[Spokane Gary]

Originally Posted by RedHorse

After going to your site and reading the entire blog, we seem to agree.

People seem to be pretty set on this issue, and an 'ad' during the Super Bowl won't change that.

'Choice' for me, is the key word. She chose.

On a side note, wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed your blog of Nov. 16, " We Killed the Genius Artist". Encouraged my two adult sons to read it.

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Here's a good video about the Tebow Commercial by a political show that I watch on Youtube. The Young Turks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvU1g8CRgM