Inconsistent Haters.

"They're all fake."  There are 3 things that at this point in my 24 years of life I have gained a good amount of knowledge about: Sports, religion, and haters.  When it comes to sports, you can just see the blogs below or my rants on twitter.  I care about sports way too much....WAY too much, but somehow for me that's not a problem, it's a solution to other problems [another blog, another day].  As far as religion goes, I grew up in the church, have four people in my family who are pastors [including my pops], and after a lot of personal soul searching I've come to know Christ for myself.  I'm not out here holding revivals, or baptizing da' homies at the local Y', but I'm serious about my faith.  Now to the real topic of the hour, haters.  We all know them, see them, hear them, entertain their horrible views on everything this life has to offer, etc.   Some of y'all reading this right now have already thought of about 3-5 things in this blog to hate on [that makes you a hater, don't deny it, it makes you look worse, accept it].  My main gripe with haters is not what they say, how often they hate, or even how nonsensical it usually is.  It's how INCONSISTENT they are.  That stuff literally drives me crazy.  For example, when a hater starts hating on religion [in this case Christians], one of the first things they will say is, "man G, them Christians are all fake, if they were real, I'd be down."  Then literally 5-seconds later, when they are confronted by a Christian who isn't fake, they say, "so you think you're better than me now cause you believe in Jesus?  Stop acting like you ain't a sinner too, be more down to earth!"  My thing is, those two comments cannot co-exist.  Which has led me to the conclusion that the problem does not lie in an actual belief in what the hater is saying.  The problem is, a real, thoroughbred hater cannot be reasoned with, and have an "argument" for everything.  Another thing I hate is how every hater has what I like to call some "last-ditch feces" to throw your way when they don't have anything else to say.  It will sound something like, "Well, I would believe in God if He appeared to me right now and said wassup".  Trust me, I'm not trying to denigrate real questions from people who are really seeking to understand something, rather than trying to make you feel lame.  But, from here on out, if you're a hater, and you don't have anything real to say and just wanna throw "last-ditch feces" at me just to make you feel better about you, save it.  I'm not interested in it, I want no part of it.  The reality is, there r a lot of people out here that know they shouldn't be doing 90% of the stuff they're doing, and acting like God doesn't exist is what helps them sleep at night.



By now you're probably asking what does any of this have to do with sports.  There is no person/athlete that symbolizes the colliding of these three worlds [sports, religion, hate] than Tim Tebow.  I remember back in the day a lot of the hate that was thrown at his feet had to do with his throwing motion, and the overall ugliness of his game as a QB.  If I'm being honest out here, I have to say that initially I could care less for Tebow and his antics while at Florida.  Just seemed like another great-white hope/hype story that would have never been possible if the dude was black.  In my opinion at the time, if Tebow was the exact same guy but black, he'd go un-drafted, or he'd be a fullback/tight-end/h-back, whatever that bull is.   When he got drafted in the first round I laughed out loud hysterically.  Then his post draft interview happened, right there in his house, he uttered these words: "they're gonna get my heart and my soul, and everything that comes with me."  I had heard about his Christian beliefs in the past: the memory verses on the eye-black [which got mysteriously banned], the whole pro-life Super-bowl commercial with his mom, and him being a virgin, etc.  I had also heard about athletes in the past who were gonna make it their mission to use their platform to save souls for the kingdom [for example D Howard....but it only took a couple hip shakes from Royce to switch up the agenda].  So I honestly wasn't sure if he would live up to bringing "everything" that comes with him.



What I can definitely say now is that Tebow wasn't joking.  He brought his faith, character, and lifestyle with him and he doesn't switch it up for anybody.  ANYBODY.  To me, I feel like if you're real, then how can you knock a dude for trying to be just who he says/claims to be?  Is Tim Tebow perfect?  Nobody is so no, and he doesn't profess to be.  Is Tebow the only Christian athlete who has ever been hated on? No, but the hate has never been more inconsistent than it is with him.  If you want to criticize his game, by all means go ahead.  I personally still don't think he will ever be an elite QB [whatever that means], but people need to stop acting like Q's like Brady/Brees/Manning/Vick/Roethlisberger grow on trees.  The dude is good enough to play on Sunday's and we've seen/tolerated a lot worse out there.  Now that dude is winning, the attacks have gotten more personal.  Former Broncos QB Jake Plummer [bust] gave the classic "I'm not hating on your beliefs" preface to a rant in which he hated on Tebow's beliefs.  Really Jake?  How 'bout you tell us why you really mad?



Tebow is an inconsistent hater's worst nightmare.  You can try to hide your hate behind critiques of his game, or what you think his on-field ceiling will be, but at the end of the day we know what it's really about.  A hater usually hates on something that indicts their own personal character.  Tebow is that dude that everybody knows in the back of their head they should be like, but make 100 excuses as to why they never could.  The sad thing is, in the event that Tebow makes some sort of mistake in the future, there will be 1,000,000 people who feel justified in their belief that "they're all fake."  Last ditch feces.