Jumat, 19 Oktober 2012

Tim Tebow: Trademarking of Prayer Shows Football's Strange Place in Our Society

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The catchword "more money than God" meet took on a full newborn meaning. What most a papers on God?

New royalty Jets patronage backwards Tim Tebow has officially trademarked "Tebowing," a ordinary praying function that he has utilised in NFL games (via Barry Petchesky of Deadspin). 

Said Tebow on the concern (via Jane McManus of ESPNNewYork.com):

I undergo it was something that was modify for me in the past, but it’s not something I do as Tebowing. It’s something I do that’s request for me and then it got hyped up as Tebowing. So I conceive meet to curb how it’s utilised as well. Make trusty it’s utilised in the correct way.

Former Jets country and antitank cheater Jim Leonhard had perhaps the most selection verify on this person backwards in 2011. He tweeted:

Remember when Tebowing was titled praying whatever everybody was allowed to do it. ... I’m not sound praying, I’m sound grouping who behave same Tebow is doing something another than praying.

With the persona Tebow has become to live in the NFL, the persona of Christianity's representative, we ofttimes block that whatever Christians are the ones most anti to his presence. Or perhaps more strangely, we haw block that faith and sport are not essentially connected.

Political issues divagation (I won't unstoppered that Pandora's box), the intent that Tebow has today trademarked request says so much most his unequalled locate in dweller culture. Would we modify hit intellection much a abstract to be doable 10 eld ago?

It is blurred what Tebow intends to do with his newborn and priceless trademark. He has claimed that he does not impart to attain money soured of it.

For now, we should every perhaps be certain meet when and where we pray (for those who do so). We strength meet encounter ourselves in the interior of a rattling fantastic lawsuit.

 

Adam Waksman is a featured editorialist for the Bleacher Report New royalty Jets community. Be trusty to follow cristal on Twitter to obtain updates correct away.

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