Tim Tebow makes sick kids wish come true

[Renew Deal]

Before the doctors and specialists, before the years filled with hospital visits, before the chemotherapy and the bone marrow transplant and the stroke -- before all of that, there was the first hint of an illness. And fittingly for Adam Hubbs, the symptoms surfaced in sports.

Adam used to regularly beat out ground balls. Now he was getting thrown out at first base. And he used to be the first one to finish every drill at pee wee football practice. Now he was one of the stragglers.

He was just so tired. Something wasn't right.

Adam eventually found out that something was a rare, genetic microbacteria infection that caused his body to stop making white blood cells to fight off infections. For a 13-year-old aspiring athlete, the news was discouraging.

"It was tough, just knowing that I'm not the same as my friends, that I'm always going to be different," said Adam, now 16. "That was the hardest part."

And that was just the start of Adam's battle.
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http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:6784756

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/features/mywish/news/story?id=6739154

[seabeyond]

1. tebow seems to be a good guy, what i have heard from him and of him. nt

[Ian David]

2. No, he's not.

http://tstos.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/tim-tebow-is-a-douche/

http://latenightdebates.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/tim-tebow-%E2%80%94-real-american-hero-or-giant-douchebag/

[Renew Deal]

3. It's easy to hate.

It's hard to do what he did for this kid.

[Ian David]

13. Let's see him do it for a gay kid. n/t

[Renew Deal]

15. How is he supposed to know a kid is gay?

And from what I've read from you, this might be the first time you've cared about "gay kids."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Maybe he will. Who knows?

Don't prejudge the guy until you know the facts.

[11 Bravo]

25. Yeah! Or a blind kid! Or an amputee! Or an orphan! Or one with CF! Or Down's Syndrome! Because ...

until then Tebow clearly and unequivocally hates all of those little fuckers! Bastard should be in prison!

[Broderick]

6. Good grief

Is that it? Some putz who writes "But I’m convinced that the guy is the phoniest douchebag in college football." without any details as to why? Just because he is a competitor and he works hard and is a nice guy in interviews? Sounds more like jealous ranting and anti-religious zeal.

[WolverineDG]

32. Yeah, we're supposed to hate him because he's a Christian

and did a pro-life commercial with his mom a couple of Super Bowls back.

dg

[Obamanaut]

38. I think that's the real bottom line. nt

[seabeyond]

21. two hit piece with nothing in them but name calling. geeesh. i dont give a shit about the man

but if you are going ot call him out, and call him names have at least ONE valid, real, substantiated reason.

waste of time reading one and perusing the other article.

[WolverineDG]

33. Glad I wasn't the only one reading those articles & wondering

ok, where's anything substantial?

dg

[Johonny]

29. Tebow's anti women stance will always make him unpopular here

although like many Christians when not totally bashing women, gays etc and actually doing good works. Tebow seems like he would be a good guy if only he wasn't so Christian conservative brain washed.

[bullwinkle428]

4. Of course, Tebow is the only athlete in the history of pro sports to help sick kids.

[Renew Deal]

5. Wow, this hate dipped post is not what I expected.

Why does it matter if any athlete has done anything for a sick kid? And I bet it's more than you have ever done.

[11 Bravo]

23. Sadly, I could have told you to expect exactly this response.

Tebow, you see, is a Christian, which makes him fair game at good old religiously tolerant DU.

[bullwinkle428]

34. Wow, that was an awfully personally-natured attack as a reply to a very

innocuous comment about the fact that lots of people do amazing things to help sick kids every day without any fanfare.

[GumboYaYa]

8. Of course not, but it is nice to see a story about someone,

regardless of politics, who takes some of their own time to help another person.

[Broderick]

7. Good on Tebow

It is not the first time he has done things like this.

[Doctor_J]

9. I don't really care for fundies as a group, but this guy

seems to walk the walk.

[Broderick]

14. That is a good point

There are so many fundamental phonies. They hide behind religion to mask something else. On the other hand there are millions of genuine folks that believe in a higher power so to speak and so far, everything I have seen about this guy, makes me believe exactly what you say. He walks the walk. There are many other villains one could despise that are cloaked in false religiosity.

[DevonRex]

27. Remember the bible verses? Eph 2:8-10. Most fundies don't

like verse 10 because it's all about walking the walk.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

10. Tim Tebow is a guy people want to hate because of his choir boy image....

....but despite that everything I read about the guy actually makes me respect him more. And I too wanted to hate on him in the beginning.

Say what you want about his in your face religiosity (literally, on his face), but he does actually seem like a decent guy. And that's certainly more than can be said about some bible beating "Christians".

[dawg]

11. I'm a liberal and a Georgia Bulldogs fan.

But still, I can't hate on Tebow. Don't agree with lots of the things that he thinks. Spent 4 hours, 4 years in a row, hoping someone with a red shirt would rip the guy's arm off and start beating him with it. But, he seems like a nice man who is willing to walk his talk. I respect that.

[NightWatcher]

12. Saint Tebow could make an entire state happy...

and vanish into the obscurity of being a backup qb already. I'm so sick of the hero worship he gets around here

[LanternWaste]

16. Some simply see good deeds, others see 'hero worship'...

Some simply see good deeds, others see 'hero worship'.

I imagine we often see only what better validates our own presuppositions.

[Renew Deal]

18. It doesn't look like he's going anywhere.

Between off the field popularity and on the field performance, he'll be around a while.


On the field:

In the process of it all, Tebow broke several quarterback, rookie, and Bronco records. Including:
The most passing yards in a game (308) by any Bronco quarterback making his first home start.
The first rookie quarterback since the NFL merger to lead a 17 point comeback in his first home start.
The most passing yards in a game by a rookie quarterback since John Elway in 1983.
Tebow also averaged 19.3 yards per completion, which is the 2nd best yards-per-completion average in Bronco history for one game.
Tebow has thrown for and rushed for a touchdown three times this season, tying him for third among all NFL quarterbacks in that regard, and Tebow is the only one of the three to have just two starts.
Tebow also owns the 10th best yards-per-carry average (4.4) among all NFL rookies this season (minimum 24 carries), leads all rookie quarterbacks in rushing touchdowns (5) and yards (133), and is tied for second among all rookies this season for rushing touchdowns.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/nfl-broncos-tim-tebow-breaking-all-kinds-of-records

Off: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Tim-Tebow-is-already-setting-records?urn=nfl-237105

[RZM]

37. Didn't know that about his stats

I don't follow football (though I used to, many moons ago). I do remember a lot of sports writers predicting he wouldn't amount to much. When the Super Bowl ad controversy was raging, Dave Zirin went on Rachel Maddow's show and took the opportunity to make fun of him and predict he wouldn't be successful in the NFL. I've always found the relationship between sports writers and athletes to be an amusing one. I have no particular attachment to Tebow, but it's good for the critics to eat crow every now and then :)

[get the red out]

20. LOL

:evilgrin:

[Bake]

17. Tebow's not much more than a kid himself! Give him a break for now.

He's a good kid who works hard and has done well. He's been USED by a lot of people, though, for other ends.

Give him time before you judge him.

Bake

[bpj62]

22. SIck Children

I am not a Tim Tebow fan. However as the father of a child who had a life threating illness (Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma) diagnosed at the age of 4 1/2 I can tell you how grateful I was for groups like Make a Wish or the Junction Gap Gang which make the wishes come true for these children. If that child dies one of his best memories will be the time that he spent with Tim Tebow. Not a single one of you who criticized Tebow even focused on what this met to the child. I saw the look on my son's face when he was granted his wish and I wouldn't trade it in for the world. Sorry to be so pointed but I have lived through this.

[FLPanhandle]

39. Well said and sorry about your son's illness.

[JohnnyLib2]

43. Thank you for bringing the priority in the story home.

:hug:

[joeybee12]

24. This is part of pr camapign to make athletes look good...there are

others on this program...isn't there something in the bible about not boasting about your good deeds, in fact, even not telling anyone?

[seabeyond]

41. personally, i am not opposed to the effort of presenting do gooder football players

the bad (really bad) boys had their time and they are trying ot clean it up a bet. works for me.

[dionysus]

26. as far as sports figures go, tebow always seemed like a douche, but he did something good for this

kid.

i can't believe the slams he's getting on here. just because he's too much into jeebus?

[11 Bravo]

30. Dude, you've been here for 10 years. You don't really wonder why he's getting slammed, do you?

You nailed it with the last seven words of your post.

[dionysus]

36. well, *I* make fun of him for being a fundy, but i wouldn't do it in a thread about him making a

sick kid happy for a day!

[DevonRex]

28. That's good. Nt

[Scurrilous]

31. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Dappleganger]

35. We live in Tebow country...

LOL, that's what they call it around here. Quite honestly, Tim isn't a bad kid and he comes from a very nice, but extremely FUNDY family. They homeschooled him and also signed him up for football at his local high school. He was a legend in Pop Warner from middle school on up, and it was always exciting to watch him play our football team several times a season. He kept himself out of trouble and had a good working attitude.

I don't think that Tim is a bad guy although I haven't any idea how pro football has changed him, and it probably has to a degree as it changes most people. But while I strongly disagree with his family's fundy views as well as his own, I don't believe that he is evil incarnate and know that in fact he and his family do many good charitable things, as do many other people.

One thing I do hate however, are his FANS. They are sickening, especially the UF fans! You would have thought he'd killed the son of God himself when he didn't go with the local Jaguar team, lol. Tebow fans were planning to name their babies after him, you know. When he comes here to play it's just a big clown show.

[FLPanhandle]

40. Hell, I'm a UF alum and even I think some fans go overboard on him.

Pity people hate on Tebow because of overzealous fans.

Giving this kid the game ball from his first NFL win is pretty impressive for a pro athlete.

[SidDithers]

42. Tim Tebow once got Blackjack with only one card...nt

Sid

[Obamanaut]

44. Looking at the stats in your post 18, Tim Tebow is going to be here for

awhile.

I like to watch him play.