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Morning Tweet: Tim Tebow and the tears of unfathomable sadness

Dec 7, 2009, 9:00 AM EDT

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It’s one thing to be photographed crying after a game, but it’s quite another to have the tears actually flow down through your eye black Bible verse. How can anyone help but have empathy for Tim Tebow, who watched his Florida team lose its quest for perfection on Saturday to Alabama? Here is Sports by Brooks’ Cartman-like reaction to Tebow’s post-game Tears of Unfathomable Sadness, in Photoshop form. Brooks is a Georgia grad, so making this was a labor of love, I’m sure. The good thing about all of this is perhaps it will end the message-in-eye-black trend for good.
Groucho had the right idea: He wore his eye black above the eyes. Ah, hello Monday. As Groucho once said, “I never forget a face, but in your case I’d be willing to make an exception.”

ABOUT LAST NIGHT …

What you missed while putting up the world’s best Christmas decoration …

* NFL: Lucy pulls back the football just as Charlie Brown attempts to kick a game-clinching field goal for the Redskins.

* NBA: Oden out for season with knee injury. Sad. Seemed inevitable though, didn’t it?

* After further review, Charlie Weis really wishes he hadn’t opened his yap about Pete Carroll’s living arrangements.

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TODAY IN MARK TRAIL …
SEC Championship Game, artist’s re-creation.

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  1. Greg Rodich - Dec 7, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    Wah. Grown ass boy crying like a baby over a came & I am suppossed to feel empathy for that. Grow up already. There is a lot worse going on in the world than some kid losing his last game & us feeling sorry for him. The media has overplayed this guy & its like they have a crush on him. He is not perfect nor is he the answer to the world’s problems. He is a kid growing into a fine young man, but that is it. He has accomplished some good things on the field, but he is not the best player ever. You reporters forget your history or eras. You build him up & if he fails at the pro level, you guys will shred him. Thats what rats do.

  2. vicki's beloved - Dec 7, 2009 at 5:05 PM

    I agree with most of Greg Rodich’s comments and would add . . .
    . . . Tebow, called, what–”The Annointed One?”– out of high school and I guess came to believe that about himself. A prima donna and like all divas he has an incessant need to draw attention to himself.
    It’s a game, Timmy boy, an athletic contest between two opposing teams; nothing more, nothing less. They’ll play it again next year, and yes, even without you. This wasn’t about wars ending, famines conquered, the polar ice caps melting, even about–god forbid–your mother passing away; it was about a football game, so what were the tears for–that you weren’t in the limelight?
    There you were earlier in manic overdrive jacking up your team with your rah-rah speech, and when the Tide proved itself to have faster, stronger and better players, when Saban and co. out-coached Meyer and co. all that was left was the crocodile tears. How very ironic: A ‘Gator shedding crocodile tears.
    Tebow’s hubris, namely his effusively insincere wearing of his religious heart on his sleeves made me want to lose my lunch. I’m an atheist but smart enough to know he used an athletic forum to do a latter day self-righteous Pharasee in the Temple routine, (Luke 18: 9-14). We want you to play football, not sermonize to us. In my opinion Greg McElroy showed so much more class and maturity.
    If Tebow wanted to redeem himself he would be encouraged to consider Luke 18 when Florida’s appears at its next less-than-stellar bowl outing. Clearly he needs to grow up and be reminded of the value of humility, to exhalt God, not himself. Somehow I doubt that’ll happen. and happily we’ll never see Tebow again at the college level beyond the next bowl. As for the NFL, they won’t coddle him the way Meyer does.

  3. don - Dec 7, 2009 at 5:30 PM

    Hey, lay off Timmy. If you want to give him a little compassion, wait till his wedding night. Since he didn’t get that many touches, he’ll probably fumble. Now that’s when he needs a little compassion

  4. joseph - Dec 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    what’s with all this religeous stuff? Colt McCoy has the praise God disease also.

  5. Commander - Dec 7, 2009 at 6:00 PM

    Amen Vicki!!!

  6. Jeff Jawer - Dec 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM

    Christianity is supposed to be a religion of compassion not competition. Tim doesn’t seem to have gotten the message.

  7. X-Man - Dec 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM

    Tebow is gay!

  8. X-Man - Dec 7, 2009 at 8:23 PM

    Tebow is gay!

  9. Len Johnson - Dec 7, 2009 at 9:09 PM

    Give me a break! Why in the would should anyone have “compassion”
    for a guy who just lost a damn football game. Especially, someone who has won National Championships, SEC Championships, and the Heisman trophy. That’s pathethtic. I’ve never been one of the Tebow haters, but to see Mr. tough guy quaterback blubber like a 3 year old because he lost a football game is really disgusting!
    Tim,
    If you place that much importance on a football game, your priorities are badly screwed up. Dude, you really need to grow up.
    You run around crying everytime something goes wrong in the NFL and it’ll be an extremely short stay.

  10. scott - Dec 7, 2009 at 10:45 PM

    I hate Tebow and love it when his got destroyed by Kentucky….but I’ll say this. That guy is a super competitor…and people love this fruit because he’s so emotional… So when dude cries when people think he should win everything…I get it.
    Who wrote “grow up”? You’re a frickin idiot…do you understand why you’re an idiot? “Grow up” infers that you have done some action to other people that has caused some kind of harm, distress, or concern… Dude cried b/c he lost a game you frickin retard…”grow up” doesn’t fit….
    Call him names…that makes more sense than “grow up”

  11. vicki's beloved - Dec 8, 2009 at 1:08 PM

    Who wrote “grow up”? You’re a frickin idiot…do you understand why you’re an idiot? “Grow up” infers that you have done some action to other people that has caused some kind of harm, distress, or concern… Dude cried b/c he lost a game you frickin retard…”grow up” doesn’t fit….
    Call him names…that makes more sense than “grow up”
    I’m being schooled by someone who can’t tell the difference between implied and “inferred”, and you’re calling me an idiot? You give proof to the saying, “never argue with a fool. He’ll always beat you with his experience.” After that, go take a chill pill and work on your hostility issues.

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