I thought he wasn't again? I must have lost track of the story. This would please me as the cognitive dissonance this would cause for my loud-mouthed Tebow-loathing Jets-fanning brothers would fill me with light and joy.
*checks Deadspin* -- ahhh definitely a Jet. Wheeee!
More importantly, why doesn't the NFL have a team called the Sharks? The yearly match-up could be a musical romp.
Perhaps someone can convince San José to convert their hockey team into a football franchise.
I believe my reaction to hearing this news was "haw haw haw!"
I will have to double-check with my Jets-fan coworker to make sure I've got the phrasing right.
There's something lovely about a looming QB battle between Tebus Christ and The Dirty Sanchez.
Tebus Christ and The Dirty Sanchez ought to be a band.
But the actual post! Wouldn't signs like that be funny?
Wouldn't signs like that be funny?
Oh, a forest of them!
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... Wouldn't signs like that be funny?
No.
7: LB, Would you just put the verse number up or would you include the text too? I think it would be awesome. There was this guy who had just graduated from UVa who was working on the Rom/ney campaign who went to my church for a while who was a huge Tebow fan. He'd say things like "Football is king." I'd love to give him one.
I think it's funnier with just the verse number. But Shearer's probably got a better idea of how the comedy works.
10: We're googling-proofing Willard Mitt but not Mr. Jefferson's University? I feel slighted.
12: Well, I went google proof crazy, because I almost put down my church's name Chr/ist Ch/urch, but it's commonly called something else, and the common name is pretty famous. We even got a visit from Sarah Palin. I can't remember the guy's name and always refer to him as Romneybot.
9: Shearer is probably right -- teasing Christians about not practicing their faith correctly may be one of the most obnoxious habits of liberal atheists.
But, I admit, it would amuse me.
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I think it's funnier with just the verse number. But Shearer's probably got a better idea of how the comedy works.
The specific issue with just giving a verse number is most people will not know the reference. The more general issue is where's the humor? I suppose you are calling Tebrow a hypocrite which is probably unfair (I expect his behavior conforms to his religious beliefs even if it conflicts with this passage) but perhaps a little funny. If Tebrow were a gay Christian would it be funny to hold up Leviticus 18:22 signs. Maybe in a mean way but is this a type of humor you want to encourage?
I love the post, LB.
BG, why do you have to hate on Mr.Jefferson's University?!?!?
Dude, if you really go and hold up that sign, I'm going to get a sex change operation so that I can gay marry you. New York has surely legalized gay bigamy by now, right?
Of course that would be funny. Also possibly mean, but that doesn't exclude it from being funny. Plus it could lead to the counter-sign "Merchant of Venice I.iii.98."
Tebow going to the Jets is unfathomably delightful to me.
It seems like just Matthew 6:5-6 would suffice.
20: Why, specifically? When the trade got into doubt yesterday, there were stirrings of him going to Jacksonville, which made all the Florida people giddy, briefly.
As a Dolpins fan, this is the only good piece of football news I've heard all month.
21: It would -- the concordance I linked to gave me all three verses as a page. Without the link, just 6:5-6 would be better.
Why, specifically?
Everyone loves to hate Tebow, and I love him for being a lightning rod. Jammies hates Tebow and is a Jets fan. And New York just seems like the perfect foil for his bright-eyed earnest strain of grand-standing.
23: Jacksonville would be perfect for him, given the overwhelming number of Gator fans & evangelicals. I admit, even though I stopped following the 'canes during grad school (they started sucking, and I had a whole new conference to try to understand), I still get excited when I see former 'canes in the NFL.
Without actually seeing the evidence, I'm willing to bet that more NFL players come from the Pahoke/e-Belle Glad/e part of FL than any other locale in the US.
I'm thinking Manning is going to be a bad gamble. It's one thing to claim you're back when you're chucking the ball around with no pads on but come on, the three surgeries and he's what, 36? I suspect he's going to get put down for good the first time he takes a helmet in his ear.
28: I think this too, but I wonder if part of the attraction for Denver is that it allows them to gracefully extricate themselves from the Tebow situation.
I imagine 29 nails it. Though I am very intrigued to watch for as long as his neck lasts. John Fox, Mike McCoy, and Peyton Manning could really put together a circus show of an offense between now and the fall.
Of course, the alternative to the "graceful extrication" theory is the "John Elway extricated his balls and wiped them across Tebow's chin" theory.
Why did Denver want to get rid of Tebow?
OT: lb have you been knitting ??? Thorn? http://www.happyplace.com/14939/male-congressmen-now-being-inundated-with-knit-and-crocheted-vaginas
33: No, because people have been shipping out knitted uterus projects for at least a decade and I'm a jaded knithipster. I also haven't done any knitting in a month, though I posted a shot of one of the quilting projects I've taken up instead to the flickr group. Perhaps Smearcase should take up his needles for uterus action. Because he's a feminist, obviously.
From the link in 31:
If there were a network that alternated between Duke tourney losses and footage of Tim Tebow being flayed with broken glass, I'd never leave home
32: Are you kidding, heebie? Have you been paying attention at all?
I haven't been paying attention, so a quick summary of why Denver would want to get rid of Tebow would also help me.
Here's what I know:
Tebow prays a lot and plays the football.
Denver wanted a quarterback who could actually throw a football to a receiver.
Thorn- ill check it out. Love quilts. A lawyer in my office on e got paid with a couple of awesome quilts. I was jealous.
Oh, that's right: the troll whose name I'd forgotten is ShearerBot.
I don't know from football but basically every quarterback in history (except for Bernie Kosar, PBUH) is a total basket of assholes, right? Tebow is such a glittering temple of assholery, though, that his name has managed to sneak across the border into my limited knowledge of all things sports-related.
Tebow is an awesome quarterback to have if there is 30 seconds left in the game and your defense has gotten you the ball on the three yard line. He is also amazing when your defense holds the other team scoreless.
Megan, they hired a fellow named Manning.
It might interesting to see the Jets try to play with 2 QBs. I think Florida did pretty well alternating between Chris Leak and Tebow. NFL teams never do that kind of thing though, do they?
I'd knit a uterus, but I'm in the middle of a scarf that's kicking my ass and I hate switching projects in the middle. (This scarf is killing me -- it's taken months, isn't going to look terribly impressive when it's done, and I'm way behind on starting a baby blanket for a friend who's in her third trimester with a cool pattern that I'm really excited about. Three-month-olds need blankets too.)
This scarf is killing me
LB is Isadora Duncan!
He is also amazing when your defense holds the other team scoreless.
The Jets might be a good fit for him.
This is going to be delightful for all my friends who are Giants and/or Patriots fans. My condolences to Jammies.
46: "Like." Adieu, mes amis, je vais à la gloire!"
Jammies . . . is a Jets fan.
How did that come to be?
Three-month-olds definitely need blankets.
Oh yes I saw the knit-a-uterus thing but eh.
(Apparently I am not a feminist.)
http://cdn.ksk.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/peytonjeebus.jpg
53: Clearly neither am I, so you don't have to accept the baton from me.
And then he went down into Bethany and he lodged there?
Denver wanted a quarterback who could actually throw a football to a receiver.
Beyond playoff games against teams from Pittsburgh.
