Tim Tebow
Timothy Richard Tebow, known as Tim Tebow (born August 14, 1987), is an American football player who first gained fame while playing for the Florida Gators. He was the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy and led the Gators to two BCS Championships during his four years playing for the University of Florida at Gainesville. He was selected by the Denver Broncos as the 25th pick of the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. In 2011, after his team was in last place, the Broncos decided to start Tebow as quarterback. As quarterback, Tebow had an impressive seven-game win streak and took the Broncos to the division championship and a home-game appearance in the playoffs. He then led them to an upset win over the Pittsburgh Steelers (headed by Hollywood-values quarterback Ben Roethlisberger) with 316 passing yards, confounding his critics. Tebow is one of Conservapedia's Greatest Conservative Sports Stars and was a runner-up for Conservative of the Year 2011.
Tebow was homeschooled until college. He is an outspoken pro-lifer, and his mother had been told to have an abortion rather than to give birth to him. Tebow appeared in a pro-life television ad that aired during the 2010 Super Bowl, risking retaliation against his career by pro-aborts and the liberal media.[1]
Tebow gives frequent interviews to the liberal media and often leaves them speechless. He answered a highly personal question at a press conference about his sex life by revealing that he practices abstinence:[2]
| â | I think you're stunned right now. You can't even ask a question. ... I was ready for that question, but I don't think ya'll were. | â |
Tebow volunteers on mission trips, one of which in the summer of 2008 to the Philippines was chronicled in an issue of the ESPN Magazine.
Personal life
His faith in Christ is a well-known fact inside and outside the sports world.