As hard as you try, it's hard to hate nearly-aborted Denver Broncos quarterback and college football hugging legend Tim Tebow. His religious beliefs make him one of the ten most influential athletes in the world and he always seems affable, even when talking about growing up with missionaries and sponsoring orphanages. So outside of longstanding, biased college football rivalries and Derek Jeter style TIM TEBOW SUCKS talk, who could develop thorough enough of a mean-on for Tebow to crack that Average White Boy persona and hurt his feelings? Who could do it well enough that one of the most hated people in sports (and one of the most beloved, because that's how it works) would think you've gone too far and stick up for him?
Enter: Merril Hoge, former running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, current ESPN football analyst and 183rd Pokémon. Merril has taken to Twitter and ESPN radio to but Tebow "on full blast", and while it doesn't read as the most literate thing in the world, Hoge is a football authority and what he says has some weight behind it. The "Tebow Thing" evolved into a monster of bickering fan support and 100+ retweets, and sometime around Hoge saying Tebow doesn't "poses [sic] a skill set", Miami Heat star LeBron James started chiming in. And you don't need me to tell you that LeBron James "chiming in" usually kills the conversation.
To make the transition from Twitter to Twitter easier for you to read, please enjoy the Tim Tebow Sucks argument through the fingertips of the men who lived it.
I don't know who this random guy is, but his response made me laugh, so I'm including it. This is great humor!
Tebow responds, and this is where it should probably have ended. You know, except for somebody pointing out that replacing the a in "appreciate" with an apostrophe doesn't make "appreciate" any shorter or easier to type.
The weirdest thing about the Internet (socially, anyway) is how easy it is to find tons and tons of strangers who will back you up no matter what. Of course, when the people start talking, the King Of The People has to speak up.
The rest of the tweet reads "a WINNER! It takes time and he'll be nice". And it goes on to say "he will probably win not five, not six, not seven Super Bowls".
To be continued. "You're a hater/hating" is the new "you're just like HITLER" of online discussion killers. I hope Hoge's response is just "f**k you, LeBron, you lost".
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Twitter fights: its not just for teenage girls anymore
“raw raw speeches do not work!”
Hodge either meant “rah rah” or he watches WWE Monday Night Raw. Whatever the case, he is an idiot.
Or he for real talkin’ ’bout that raw-raw! PAAANDEMIC!
Raw raw like a dungeon dragon.
/Busta Ryhmes’d
The fact that you credited “raw raw” to Busta and not nicki minaj let’s me know you keep it real as shit, uu.
Respect.
Merrill: “Tim Tebow blows monkey cock”
Tim: “God belss you Merrill, you’re such a free spirit”
LeBron: “talk about me, listen to what I say, pay attention to me”
@LaS, here we go yo.
I guess the “rare rare” speeches (slide 3) are cooked slightly more than the “raw raw” speeches (slide 6)? Hoge apparently auditioning to become Food Network’s NFL analyst.
The last quarterback Hoge put on full blast was Aaron Rodgers, saying a lot of the same things he is now, so I have no idea how he’s still on TV.
The fact that he’s right this time in no way makes him any less of a douche.
john cena gay?
Lady Gaga likes he steak outfit raw raw
Not a Tebow fan, but I prefer to let time determine his place in football history before making any judgments. Merrill Hoge, on the other hand, is a proven D-list ESPN moron; does his opinion really count for anything?
When did reporting become hating?
It’s the people that blow Tebow’s importance in the NFL (either how good OR how bad he’ll be) out of proportion like this that bother me a lot more than Tebow. And by the way, it IS possible to hate Tebow. You just have to have watched a lot of ESPN back in 2009.
Hypothesis: ATCQ (lines, lyrics, flows) get recycled and re-used more than anyone else ever.
I like Hoge even more now (even though his twitter skills are similar to Tebow’s footwork); he came out and did his job which is to provide an analysis of players (also teams and games) as he did with Tebow, it was honest, to the point, and accurate, AND as he said AT THIS POINT in his career (he did make some projection about possible improvement). Living here in Denver you hear all the TeJesus people coming out of the woodwork wanting to fight Hoge and bemoaning him right and left while not being able to factually counter anything he said. It is an overwhelming momentum of a prayer meeting for a guy who sucks at QB. I can’t say it is not interesting since I enjoy tribalistic shenanigans. His “great game” last year was against the Texans, with what at the time ranked 38th in the league in defense.
Plus this is fucking hilarious.