{"id":5563,"date":"2012-12-26T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5563"},"modified":"2012-12-26T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T15:52:20","slug":"off-topic-why-are-there-so-many-sports-articles-about-tim-tebow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=5563","title":{"rendered":"Off-Topic: Why are there so many Sports articles about Tim Tebow?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The most talked about 3rd string QB in sports history. Photo AP via businessinsider.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Seriously?<\/p>\n

The 3rd string quarterback of a mediocre NFL team is in the news, literally every day. \u00a0Multiple times per day.<\/p>\n

Why is there so much press surrounding Tim Tebow<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Just this week, we learned he broke up with his girlfriend, that he’s disappointed about being passed over for the starting gig the last week of the season, that he could have run the wildcat if asked, that he may be heading to Jacksonville, that some ESPN analyst thinks he’s a fraud, that the Jets should just cut him now, and that he would have done whatever his coach asked him.\u00a0 Of the 50-someodd articles in my RSS feed just now, there were no less than 10 related to Tebow.<\/p>\n

Why??\u00a0 Why is he constantly in the news?\u00a0 Is it because he plays for the Jets?\u00a0 I didn’t realize the Jets were such a newsworthy football team.\u00a0 Is it because he’s in New York and there’s just more sports media per square foot there than elsewhere?\u00a0 Possibly.\u00a0 Is it because the closest city to ESPN headquarters in New York and ESPN employs far too many columnists and analysts?\u00a0 Possibly.\u00a0 Is it because Tebow is a former Heisman trophy winner?\u00a0 Doubtful; there’s been numerous Heisman winners who were awful in the pros. \u00a0Is it because he’s amazingly talented and people really thought he’d be the savior of the NFL? \u00a0I doubt it; every analysis piece I read seems to come with stated opinions of just how mediocre a player he is.<\/p>\n

Can it stop?\u00a0 I’m really, really tired of hearing about him.\u00a0 Most ardent football fans couldn’t name the backups of most NFL teams outside their own rooting interests; why does sports nation need to know the every move of Tim Tebow??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seriously? The 3rd string quarterback of a mediocre NFL team is in the news, literally every day. \u00a0Multiple times per day. Why is there so much press surrounding Tim Tebow? Just this week, we learned he broke up with his girlfriend, that he’s disappointed about being passed over for the starting gig the last week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[583],"class_list":["post-5563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonbaseball","tag-tim-tebow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5572,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5563\/revisions\/5572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}