We have become a very lenient society in man ways. We question a religious man who plays the sport as divisive over a criminal. And we have seen it over the years. The media always making statements to that direction. These fellows kneeling need to become good and wholesome people. Many are. Many are not. Sports have crossed the line into hypocracy.
Okay, you know what, Tebow never got the kind of abuse over his religious nutbaggery that Kapernick did for talking about a serious issue.
Frankly, I find the Tebow's "Jesus of the Touchdown" to be kind of insulting to Christians. God won't stop famine or plague or suffering, but he REALLY Cares about who wins a football game. This cartoon will show how fucking silly that is.
The media did not have to report and make comments on it as being divisive. And we know what a football game is. The truth is it helps to take the place of us bashing each others skulls in as we get to vent some of our aggressions. The media could have kept the religious issue lower and show some class. But then we know now, they are swamp creatures.
It seems you have no issue with athletes using their sport, and the megaphone sports leaders have, to promote values and ideals that YOU believe in, but are opposed to athletes using the playing of the national anthem to remind viewers that black people are still not equal to white people in the USA. They don't have the same rights, and when they are killed, their lives don't matter enough to merit charges from the police who carelessly kill them.
I have friends who vary from "deeply religious" to "avowed athiests". The people I find to be "divisive" are those who try to use the workplace for proslytizing. Tebow was the guy who made his religion an issue, not the media. Tebow bills himself as the most "openly Christian athlete in sports", and a "preacher in a football player's body". And you're cheering on his trivializing of God and faith using football.
It's no wonder that, despite his success on the field, he was traded from team to team. He was using the sport to promote his religion. I don't recall anyone saying anything about his Christianity, like "Shut up and pass the ball". But I do recall some bitch on FOX telling LeBron to "Shut up and dribble".