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Kevin Graham wrote:
I can't think of a single person who did this. Cute meme though. I'm sure it must be true since someone put it together, and memes are always right.

Oh, well if you can't think of a single person...
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/ ... -his-faith

Yet when Tulloch and Scheffler dropped to a knee to mock how Tebow prays — an action known as “Tebowing” that has gone viral among the public, too — we yawned and told Christians to lighten up.
https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/tim ... him-110211

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/when ... s-of-faith

Must have just been the media that was critical, huh?

can't think indeed.
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Re: Nike

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subgenius wrote:
Kevin Graham wrote:
I can't think of a single person who did this. Cute meme though. I'm sure it must be true since someone put it together, and memes are always right.

Oh, well if you can't think of a single person...
https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/ ... -his-faith

Yet when Tulloch and Scheffler dropped to a knee to mock how Tebow prays — an action known as “Tebowing” that has gone viral among the public, too — we yawned and told Christians to lighten up.
https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/tim ... him-110211

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/when ... s-of-faith

Must have just been the media that was critical, huh?

can't think indeed.


We all know you're semi-literate, but you should really try harder. The meme says people told Tebow to "stop" taking a knee and it said specifically that the people praising Kaepernick for kneeling are the ones who told Tebow to "stop."

I praise Kaepernick for kneeling and I know of at least 3 dozen people who do also. None of us told Tebow to "stop" kneeling. Your links reference a couple of athletes mocking him but that's nowhere the same thing as telling him to stop, and a couple of athletes mocking him is hardly representative of all the people who support Kaepernick.

Quite simply, you're an idiot.
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Making fun of Tebow isn't telling him he needs to stop. It's making fun of him. I mean, you can count me in the group of people who found his prayer poses worth an eye roll, but also didn't care if he kept on Tebowing.
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What's funny is we had this message board back then and can actually see what was being said here about Tebow.

http://www.mormondiscussions.com/phpBB3 ... 1&p=819621

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=21575

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22112
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Re: Nike

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subgenius wrote: Yet when Tulloch and Scheffler dropped to a knee to mock how Tebow prays — an action known as “Tebowing” that has gone viral among the public, too — we yawned and told Christians to lighten up.
https://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/tim ... him-110211

Must have just been the media that was critical, huh?

So, what’s the problem here, again? Someone poked fun at Tebow, then Fox and some part of the Christian community got snowflake-y about it?

And this is similar to ...?
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No one here recalls the late night talk shows lampooning Tebow, the political cartoons, or any of the chatter surrounding his kneeling to pray? It wasn't unusual for atheists to pipe up and talk smack about Tebow being theatrical?

Huh.

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https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live ... bow/n13335

I don't think the point is it didn't happen. It's that they aren't comparable unless you think like subbie. I mean, their defense was voracious, but overshadowed by Tebow. They went on to be AFC champs two of the next three years without him and AFC West champs for something like six years straight. There were reasons to mock him and his overt on field praying drew fire along with his fans who otherwise knew jack about football because it was hard to watch a guy be that bad at his job and be praised for it while the people deserving the credit were overlooked despite keeping games winnable so he could complete one pass and praise Jesus.
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Leave it to Cammie to support an idiotic, non-analogous comparison. Tebow wasn't shunned by all teams for his prayer pose. He didn't have nimrods like you misconstruing what he was doing because they were too stupid to listen and grasp the point. There was no national movement of idiots like you purposefully ignoring his message. And the President certainly didn't say he should be fired for it.

Got any more moronic comparisons to make? I know you have plenty in you.
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Re: Nike

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Hey, it's the chinless-chilla chiming in as usual with his turd monster posts!

Fat sacks of crap aside, the comparison is apt because the people , many of them being the Left-leaning types, crapped all over Tebow for an ostentatious display of faith are supportive of the anthem kneelers as being brave. The optics are bad.

For example, Deadspin, which is a pretty hardcore SJW-y sports rag, posted this:

https://deadspin.com/5861845/a-guide-to ... -tim-tebow

This was pretty typical public posturing for the supposedly open-minded, tolerant, and diverse crowd. People in the middle and on the Right can see it They have eyeballs. And they know hypocrisy as well as those on the Left do. This Kap thing is hypocritical, and now we can see how Leftist types just pshaw it away, which is another problem. Instead of building consensus by saying, "You know, I think there is a perception connection there. And I do see how a double standard is perceived.", we get hand waiving and bags of dicks like Some Schmo viciously attacking the messenger.

Y'all wonderin' how 2016 happened. We have yet another object lesson right here right now, but you're too blind to see.

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Re: Nike

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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Y'all wonderin' how 2016 happened. We have yet another object lesson right here right now, but you're too blind to see.

We're not blind. You're just a moron.

2016 happened because morons like you can't tell reality from your idiotic fantasy.
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