Tim Tebow

I want to take a moment to speak of the football player, college and professional, that is glorified and sometimes referenced in the same breath as Jesus. While some may say that he is the greatest player to ever play in college football and some even say that he will be the greatest player to ever play in professional football, which would make him the greatest player to ever play the game. I have known about Tim Tebow since his senior year in high school, I am not saying that I knew Tebow just that I has known who he was, since he was being recruited by Mike Shula and Alabama. Tebow commited to Alabama initially and then a little before signing day decommitted on a visit at Tuscaloosa, along with Brandon Spikes. That day was a sad day for me, I thought at the time, because Alabama had lost the #1 overall recruit and a quaterback that would have changed the Alabama football team for the next couple of years. But poor Mike Shula didn't land him, rather Tim Tebow committed to Florida. Since then Tim Tebow has gone on to impress anybody that has followed college football, especially those in the media, and has drawn a larger crowd to the sport. For that I thank Tim Tebow, but for those who think that he is a good football player, which I don't have much experience in, I think that you are crazy. I mean I never played football and never went through what he went through to become what he is but all of the "experts" say that he isnt a sound quaterback and wont be a good quaterback in the future. So I will let their research stand here for the arguments sake. But the main part that I wanted to mention is what I saw on December 5, 2009 and have seen in prior incidents that Tim Tebow has played in a game and lost, which has only happened 7times. Now the fact that Tim Tebow has only lost 7games in a span of 4 seasons is pretty remarkable, but being an Alabama fan and apart of the I hate Tim Tebow fan club, I try to look into those loses and see something else. Because I believe that how we deal with adversity is how we define ourselves and find out who we truly are. Tim Tebow has come back and won plenty of games while dealing with adversity, but in three of the seven loses, that I know of, Tim Tebow has broken down and cried. Now after the first loss that he was "shown" crying in I was able to put it behind me and realize that it was the first time and that hopefully it wouldnt happen agian, that he would learn from that hideous showing and never cry again. But silly Tim Tebow did not, he merely did it again, this time in a press conference, after the Ole Miss loss in 2008. But the Tears of Tebow didn't make me realize how pathetic Tim is untill the 2009 SEC championship when heavily favored Florida was dominated and Tim Tebow was silenced by my Alabama Crimson Tide. Tim Tebow was shown not just crying, but bawling on the sideline during the end of the game, then a little teary eyed at the post-game press conference. Tim Tebow has a hard time dealing with defeat, but that isn't what bothers me about him, the fact that it puts his weak self to tears is what bothers me. If you are going to be the leader of a team and considered a great motivator, you can't show weakness by breaking down and crying when something doesn't go according to plan. You have to man up and go with it, learn from what has just happened and make changes accordingly. Something I have learned in my 21 years of being alive is that sitting around and crying has never solved anything, it can even make the situation worsen. Looking at Tim Tebow bawl on the sideline made me hope that their were fathers in America that were showing their sons exactly how not to act when something doesnt go as planned and you get beat. If one day I am blessed with a son that wants to play football I want my son to look at Tim Tebow and realize that you shouldn't sit and sulk about what has just happened, but to see and learn from it. To take it like a man and make yourself better. Not even the great players win every game, they are just able to accept their loss and make themselves better from it, for adversity is only good if you can learn and become better.

P.S. I would much rather have missed on Tim Tebow and gotten Saban and had McElroy throwing Bama's passes in the championship game.
Wing Man Out!

Road Trip

I want to talk about Road Trips. Merriam-Webster defines a Road Trip as being an extended trip in a motor vehicle. I want to specifically focus on those taken in cars. While you may think that driving will limit your choices and options on the vast number of places that you can travel to, I see it as more of a challenge to be able to get to those places with a car. I am not saying that you should try to cross the Pacific Ocean in your 2001 Ford Taurus, even though that would be kind of interesting, but be creative. While trekking across the world would be fun and all, I really just want to focus on staying in this continent, mainly this country. I have been telling the legendary story of the recent Road Trip that Bro and I went on to almost anybody with capable hearing skills, and some people that don’t, and have found that nobody travels by car for long durations anymore, they would rather just fly. I answer back to those people that it is definitely more convenient, but then I ask, “Is convenient what you want?” If so then you are probably not taking a real Road Trip. You see a Road Trip involves good friends, a steady vehicle, and not knowing exactly what is going to happen when you get there. I have been on car rides with my family for the past 21 years and have realized that the more you know beforehand, the less fun you have when you actually arrive. I mean sure, I would like to know that there is somewhere for me to stay, how the weather will be, and maybe one big event that we will be attending, like the LSU vs. Arkansas game (which was awesome!). But even those aren’t necessary for the Road Trip. My vision of a Road Trip is something that is just spontaneous and you go on by the seat of your pants and make the decisions as they come (you may want to bring extra cash). But that is what makes a Road Trip, you and you friend(s) going across this great country and deciding on what to do on your way to wherever you are going. So I challenge you, my followers, to grab some friends, get together in a car and just go somewhere new. I mean sure it may cause a lot of traffic and fill a lot of hotel vacancies, but wouldn’t that help out this country a little bit? Anyways it beats the alternative, work.

Wing Man Out!