Don’t tell Tebow this is all just about football. Tebowmania is about so much more.
Before the game yesterday, he met with 16-year-old Bailey Knaub from nearby Loveland, Colorado. The girl is battling Wegener’s Granulomatosis, a disease that affects the vital organs, and has undergone six dozen surgeries, chemotherapy, and has lost a lung. She is the 13th “wish kid” Tebow has hosted at a game this season. “You know, I’m playing a game, but this little girl has had 73 surgeries and she’s fighting for her life. That’s real perspective,” Tebow told reporters. “I’m very thankful for the platform that God has given me…because I have an opportunity to affect people,” Tebow said during the post-game conference last night.
Aside from going on yearly mission trips to the Philippines since he was 15 years old, Tebow talks in hospitals, schools, and prisons here in the U.S. His foundation funds a ministry that supports 650 orphans. This offseason, he’ll again visit the Philippines, this time to break ground on a children’s hospital, a 30-bed surgical facility scheduled to open in 2013.
I’m a fan. Not just because I like the Gators, not just because I was at that incredible National Championship Game in ’09, and not just because I met him and shook his hand last June. I’m a fan because of what he represents — what is good and decent about humanity. I hope and pray God gives him the courage to continue to walk his talk. 
Tebow threw for 316 yards against the Steelers yesterday.
His average per yard was 31.6.
The peak in view rating was 31.6.
All of this on Jan 8, the three year anniversary of Tebow wearing John 3:16 in the 2009 National Championship Game which sparked 90 million Google searches for John 3:16.
Just sayin’.
Very cool stats. I have never been a Gator fan ( all about the ||_|| )but I have become a fan of this incredible young man. God Bless him and may he continue to have the courage to always place God before all other things. He is an example to all of us
Connie,
Loved your blog and so did Pedro. He is one of those Gators that bleeds Orange and Blue. Pedro had just finished telling me that he was a friend of Tebow’s in Facebook when I was reading your blog. I had to read it to him. Tebow is an incredible kid, a true role model. I’m glad he doesn’t stop using his platform to thank Jesus. It is his right in a free country. So too bad if others don’t like it. By the way, Pedro also stood in line to have his Tebow book signed last June and even took a picture with him. I guess you did too.
Well, just wanted to tell you that I loved this blog. The rosary this Friday is at my house, hope to see you then.
Go Gators…..most of all Go Timmy!!!!
Thanks Cary, glad you guys enjoyed it. Yes, I was there with Danny, we both met him and took pictures with him. It was pretty cool.
I will see you at rosary this Friday, God-willing.
I know my friend, it’s all about the U for “some” in my household too, not me… LOL.
Wow! How awesome is that??!! Hmmm… don’t think those stats are just a coincidence! Just shows how God truly has a hand in his life. So glad that he does not let the mockery keep him from praising God openly. He’s such an awesome role model.
P.S. Way cool that you and Danny met him.
Way way cool.
Getting caught up with my favorite blog today. Love, love, love Tebow. He is one steadfast, stay the course young man. Had to go over the fence the other day at the office, when some co-workers were denigrating him. It really is quite bothersome that some consider athletes that routinely get in trouble with the law, are unfaithful to their wives and are everything BUT what role models should be, heroes. Please. Why do they care whether or not he has had sexual relations? What business is it of theirs or anybody’s? They poke fun at Tebow for proclaiming his faith and not sleeping around. They praise those that have different mothers for all their children, have a new “fiancée” every other month and routinely make the news for their behavior, that makes someone a man? I don’t think so. Having the gumption to proclaim his faith and not let idiot news people who ask inane questions rattle him, sticking to his ideals, being close to his family, being a true friend, living a normal, decent life, having morals (do people know what the word means anymore?), now THAT is a man. God bless him. I think he rocks. As to his hecklers, they are mere specks of dust in the wind.