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A photo would be nice--[[User:Rexislexis|Rexislexis]] 00:18, 24 March 2007 (EDT)

I'll do that as soon as I'm finished with the actual article.----[[User:Tash]] 00:42, 24 March 2007 (EST)

Mention should be made of Brady's immoral copulating outside of marriage. [[User:DunsScotus|DunsScotus]] 17:02, 26 March 2007 (EDT)

I created a separate "Controversies" section for the article to include the "sliding with cleats out" incident. [[User: eg]] 12:53, 12 June 2013 (CDT)

Okay, I give up. Mr. Schlafly wants this page to be as much of a joke as the rest of the site is. [[User: eg]]

:Once again, Conservapedia is bashing someone who's ahead of [[Tim Tebow]] on the depth chart. Its agenda is quite transparent, given the gratuitous [[pro-life]] moniker attached to Tebow in an article about a completely unrelated topic.

:The article alleges liberal bias denies the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year to conservative athletes, yet [[Curt Schilling]], 2001 winner of the award, is widely known to be conservative and indeed is present on Conservapedia's own list of Conservative Sports Stars. (!)

:Meanwhile, the article asserts Tebow, whose 47.9 career NFL completion percentage trails even all-time draft bust Ryan Leaf's, is a better option at quarterback than Brady, who is nearly universally considered among the all-time great quarterbacks by present and past players, experts, and observers of football. ---[[User:Solomon|Solomon]]

::Curt Schilling was given only a '''''shared''''' Sportsman of the Year award. Also, comments like "universally considered" blah blah blah have no value here. Logic governs this site. Most people in the world reject the [[Bible]] and [[free market]] economics, but that obviously doesn't mean they aren't true.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 19:07, 13 June 2013 (EDT)

:::Yeah, conservative Christians like Drew Brees and David Robinson never win the award, except for the years that they did.---eg

::::Broken clocks have correct time twice-a=day too. Such examples hardly prove that a clock works, or that the liberal media are not biased against outspoken Christians.--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:11, 14 June 2013 (EDT)

:::::Balderdash. The "broken clock" of your example is right twice a day by chance simply by doing absolutely nothing. Conservative athletes can and have been ACTIVELY chosen as SI's Sportsman of the Year. You have given zero compelling evidence, in this entry or anywhere else on this site, that the sports media has an active bias against conservative Christian athletes.

:::::Furthermore, your statement is that the award is denied to the "Greatest Conservative Sports Stars". The single example given above by User: Solomon BY ITSELF sufficiently shows that this statement is not true. Two more examples have also been given by me (David Robinson is not currently on your list, but he should be). All three examples are from the last 12 years, so continuing to claim, as this entry does, that the award is not given to conservative sports stars is an outright falsehood. But go ahead, you can keep claiming that the sun is blue provided that you never look at it to see that you're wrong.---eg

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John Elway

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'''John Elway''' (born June 28, 1960 in Port Angeles, [[Washington]]) is a former [[AFC|American football conference]] quarterback in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) for the [[Denver Broncos]] from 1983 through 1998. He holds many college and some professional records, was inducted to the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] in Canton, [[Ohio]], and is one of two quarterbacks to have started in five [[Super Bowl]]s, [[Tom Brady]] being the other . He entered the NFL in 1983, when he was drafted with the first overall pick of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Colts. After refusing to play or sign a contract with the Colts and indicating that might try to play professional baseball instead, he was traded to the [[Denver Broncos]].<ref>http://football.about.com/cs/legends/p/johnelway.htm</ref>

After losing in his first three Super Bowl appearances, Elway came back strong to win his last two in back to back years (1997 & 1998) and then retired.

Elway is now an executive with the Denver Broncos organization.

==References==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.johnelway.com/ John Elway.com]
*[http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=64 Hall of Fame Bio]
*[http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/ElwaJo00.htm NFL Stats]
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John Elway

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'''John Elway''' (born June 28, 1960 in Port Angeles, [[Washington]]) is a former [[AFC|American football conference]] quarterback in the [[National Football League]] (NFL) for the [[Denver Broncos]] from 1983 through 1998. He holds many college and some professional records, was inducted to the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] in Canton, [[Ohio]], and is one of two quarterbacks to have started in five [[Super Bowl]]s[[Tom Brady]] being the other . He entered the NFL in 1983, when he was drafted with the first overall pick of the NFL Draft by the Baltimore Colts. After refusing to play or sign a contract with the Colts and indicating that might try to play professional baseball instead, he was traded to the [[Denver Broncos]].<ref>http://football.about.com/cs/legends/p/johnelway.htm</ref>

After losing in his first three Super Bowl appearances, Elway came back strong to win his last two in back to back years (1997 & 1998) and then retired.

Elway is now an executive with the Denver Broncos organization.

==References==
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==External Links==
*[http://www.johnelway.com/ John Elway.com]
*[http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=64 Hall of Fame Bio]
*[http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/ElwaJo00.htm NFL Stats]
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Tom Brady

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[[Image:Bradyptctwo.jpg|thumb|280px|Tom Brady]]
'''Tom Brady''' is a [[National Football League]] (NFL) quarterback for the [[New England Patriots]]. He was born on August 3, 1977 in San Mateo, [[California]]. He is 6 foot 4 and 225 pounds. In 2005, Brady won the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year award, a [[politically correct]] prize denied to the [[Greatest Conservative Sports Stars]]. In the 2013 playoffs, Brady displayed his "sportsmanship" by trying to stick his cleats into an opponent as Brady cowardly slid to avoid being hit. Playing for the best NFL coach and the strongest team over the past decade, Brady has been the quarterback in the Super Bowl a record-tying five times (with [[John Elway]]), winning it three times, in 2002, 2004, and 2005.

Brady requires almost perfect pass protection in order to do well, because he tends to throw well only when stationary and upright, in contrast to his back-up who does not throw well at all. When the opponent has a strong pass rush, as the Giants and Ravens do, then Brady underachieves. The addition of the [[pro-life]] [[Tim Tebow]] to the Patriots in 2013 gives the coach the option to switch to a passer who can very accurately bounce the ball off the turf five feet away from his receivers.

== High School Football ==
Brady attended Junípero Serra High School in [[San Mateo]], [[California]] from 1992 through 1995. In his freshmen year he sat on the bench and watched the Padres (Junípero Serra High School's football team) get beat in every game that year<ref>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soac/2006-10-31-brady_x.htm</ref>.... In his two years starting for the Varsity team from 1993-1994 Tom Brady completed 219 passes for 3,514 yards and 33 touchdowns. Brady reportly visited the high school gym to work out three times a day. Some famous alma of Junípero Serra High School also include Football Hall of [[Famer Lynn Swann]] and current baseball player [[Barry Bonds]]<ref>http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/79294/little_known_facts_about_tom_brady.html</ref>.

== Professional Baseball ==
In 1995 Tom Brady was drafted in the 18th round of the 1995 [[Major League Baseball]] draft as a catcher by the [[Montreal Expos]]. He choose to attend the [[University of Michigan]] instead of signing with the Expos.

== College Football ==
===1995-1998===
Tom Brady attended the [[University of Michigan]] from 1995 through 1999. In the first three years (95-97) at Michigan he only played a limited role of backup quarterback (he began in 1995 as the seventh quarterback on the Michigan depth chart<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/03/60minutes/main1008148.shtml</ref>). However in 1998 (his senior season), Brady received the starting quarterback job for the Wolverines and played in and started all 13 games. His stats were a decent 214 completed passes on 350 attempts (school record) for 2636 yards, 15 touchdowns and 12 interceptions<ref>http://stats.ath.umich.edu/biostat.php?skey=737&altkey=1850</ref>. The Wolverines under Brady finished with a 10 & 3 record and a berth in the CompUSA Florida Citrus Bowl game vs Arkansas. Michigan won the game 45 to 31. Brady completed 14 of 27 passes for 209 yards and a touchdown in the victory<ref>http://stats.ath.umich.edu/football/gametot.php?gkey=530</ref>.

===1999===
Brady stayed in college an extra year so he could get more starting experience before applying for the 2000 NFL draft. Once again he started every game (12) for the Michigan Wolverines and at the end of the season was named the [[Bo Schembechler Award]] winner as Michigan's Most Valuable Player. Tom Brady led the team to a 10 & 2 record and improved statistically also with 214 completions on 341 attempts for 2586 yards, 20 touchdowns and five interceptions<ref>http://stats.ath.umich.edu/biostat.php?skey=737&altkey=1850</ref>. Surprisingly enough, the last game of his college career was also his best game ever as a quarterback up to that point. In the FedEx Orange Bowl vs Alabama on January 1, 2000, Brady led the Wolverines back from a 14 point deposit to win the game by a score of 35 to 34 in overtime<ref>http://stats.ath.umich.edu/football/gametot.php?gkey=543</ref>. In the dramatic game and overtime finish Tom completed 34 of 46 passes for 369 yards and four touchdowns.

In his five years at Michigan, Tom Brady played in a total of 31 games and started 25. His record as a starter was 20 & 5. He finished his career in the Michigan record books with 443 completions on 711 attempts for 5351 yards, 35 touchdowns and 19 interceptions.

== NFL Career==
===Draft and Rookie Year===
In 2000, the [[New England Patriots]] drafted Brady in the sixth round (199 overall) of the [[2000 NFL Draft]]. Brady who had been expecting to be drafted in the third or forth was tremendously disappointed with being drafted so late in the draft. However, as disappointed as Brady was at getting drafted in the sixth round - he may have been luckily to have been drafted at all. One scout wrote about Brady prior to the draft in a scouting report that Tom had "Poor build, very skinny and narrow, lacks mobility and the ability to avoid the rush, lacks a really strong arm."<ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/03/60minutes/main1008148.shtml</ref> When Brady arrived at the Foxboro, [[Massachusetts]] in the summer of 2000, the Patriots at the time already had three quarterbacks on the roster so Brady didn't have a guarantee of even making the team, but he ended up played well in preseason and training camp and won the third quarterback roster spot. He only appeared in one game as a rookie and completed one pass.

=== 2001 Season ===
In his second season with the Pats (2001), Brady moved up on the depth chart from third quarterback behind [[Damon Hurd]] to the second quarterback spot and became the direct backup to then starting QB [[Drew Bledsoe]]. In week two of the season in a game against the Jets, Bledsoe was hurt while scrambling to get out of bounds and gain some yardage. Brady entered the game and completed 5 passes for 46 yards but the Patriots lost the game 10 to 3. The next week, Brady started his first NFL as a quarterback vs the [[Indianapolis Colts]]. Brady ended up starting the rest of the regular thirteen season games and the Patriots finished the season with a with an 11 & 5 record an AFC East devision title and most importantly a playoff berth. Brady compiled the regular season stats of 264 completions on 413 attempts for 2843 yards, 18 touchdowns, 12 interceptions and a 86.5 passer rating. He made the AFC [[Pro Bowl]] team and was also named to the All Terry Team.

==References==
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==External Links==
* [http://www.nfl.com/players/tombrady/profile?id=BRA371156 NFL Stats]
* [http://stats.ath.umich.edu/biostat.php?skey=737&altkey=1850 College Stats]
* [http://www.patriots.com/team/index.cfm?ac=playerbio&bio=566 Patriots Bio]
* [http://www.mgoblue.com/bio.cfm?bio_id=1850&section_id=258&top=2&level=3&season=147 Michigan Bio]
* [http://www.nflplayers.com/players/player.aspx?id=28950 NFL Players Bio]
* [http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soac/2006-10-31-brady_x.htm USA Today Article]
* [http://espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs01/s/2002/0119/1314426.html Tuck Rule Background]
* [http://www.superbowl.com/history/recaps/game/sbxxxvi Super Bowl XXXVI Recap]

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[[File:Tim Tebow.jpg|right|150px]]
'''Timothy Richard "Tim" Tebow''' (born August 14, 1987) is an [[American]] [[football]] player who initially gained fame while playing for the [[University of Florida]] Gators. He was the first sophomore to win the [[Heisman Trophy]] and led the Gators to two [[BCS]] Championships during his four years playing for UF in Gainesville, which is extremely rare. Earlier this year Tebow was voted by players to be one of the top football players, and more recently he was voted by a small fraction of the NFL to be the most overrated in the league, with Jets starting quarterback Mark Sanchez listed as the second most overrated.<ref>[http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2012/10/25/tim-tebow-mark-sanchez-most-overrated-players-in-nfl/]</ref><ref>[http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-tim-tebow-overrated-20121025,0,5140701.story]</ref><ref>[http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/8549867/tim-tebow-new-york-jets-qb-most-overrated-per-sports-illustrated-poll]</ref> Tebow responded by laughing it off, observing the inconsistency in the polls.

He was selected by the [[Denver Broncos]] as the 25th pick of the first round of the 2010 NFL Draft. In 2011, with the team in last place, the Broncos decided to start Tebow as quarterback. A solidly built quaterback, Tim is 6'3" and weighs about 240 pounds.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/people/tim-tebow-20786869] Biography.com</ref> Tebow had an impressive seven-game winning streak, and took the Broncos to the division championship and a home-game appearance in the playoffs. He led them to a stunning upset victory over the [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] with 316 passing yards for an average of 31.6 yards per toss, confounding his critics and causing a million searches on the internet for the meaning of [[John_1-7_(Translated)#Chapter_3|John 3:16]].<ref>The Broncos were subsequently eliminated by the [[New England Patriots]].</ref>

However, that offseason the Broncos signed quarterback [[Peyton Manning]] to a deal costing nearly $100 million, and then immediately traded Tebow to the [[New York Jets]]. As the trade was finalized, on March 22, Tebow arrived in Morristown, New Jersey (near where the Jets train) amid much media publicity and fan support.

During the 2012 season, Tebow was largely kept on the bench despite continued poor play by starting quarterback Mark Sanchez. For example, on November 22, Sanchez played the entire game against the Patriots, a game which the Jets lost 49-19. Even after Sanchez repeatedly turned the ball over by throwing interceptions and fumbling the ball by running into his own lineman after a botched handoff, Tebow did not get into the game.

Finally the coach benched Sanchez, but he (or the owner) still refused to give Tebow any real playing time, instead starting [[Greg McElroy]].<ref>http://www.nj.com/jets/index.ssf/2012/12/tim_tebow_and_mark_sanchez_red.html</ref> The repeated refusal to play Tebow became a bigger story than which side won or lost the game itself.

On April 29, 2013, after the draft weekend, the Jets waived their rights to Tebow.

On June 10, 2013, Tebow signed a contract with the New England Patriots.

'''''Tebow is one of [[Essay:Greatest Conservative Sports Stars|Conservapedia's Greatest Conservative Sports Stars]] and was a runner-up for [[Conservative of the Year 2011]]'''''.

==Personal life==
Tebow was [[homeschooled]] until college. He is an outspoken [[pro-lifer]], and his mother had been told to have an [[abortion]] rather than to give birth to him. Tebow appeared in a pro-life television ad that aired during the 2010 [[Super Bowl]], risking retaliation against his career by [[pro-aborts]] and the [[liberal media]].<ref>http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2010/0127/Tim-Tebow-Super-Bowl-ad-an-astonishingly-bold-stand</ref>

Tebow has publically confirmed that he is a virgin. He has been mocked by liberals for waiting until marriage to have sex as a result of his faith.<ref>http://www.christianpost.com/news/tim-tebows-virginity-back-under-scrutiny-73324/</ref> Tebow answered a highly personal question at a press conference about his sex life by revealing that he practices [[abstinence]]:<ref>http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=hill/090724&sportCat=ncf</ref>

{{cquote|I think you're stunned right now. You can't even ask a question. ... I was ready for that question, but I don't think ya'll were.}}

Tebow volunteers on mission trips, one of which in the summer of 2008 to the [[Philippines]] was chronicled in an issue of the ''ESPN Magazine''.

His faith in [[Christ]] is a well-known fact inside and outside the sports world.

==Tebowing==
[[Tebowing]] is the act of kneeling on one knee, resting your head on your fist and giving thanks. It is named for Tebow's fashion of public prayer, although critics (among which are fellow Christians) have criticized such open practice as this by citing Matthew 6, verses 5 and 6:
''<blockquote>
And when you pray, don't be like the hypocrites. They love to pray when standing in the synagogues and in the street corners, so that they may be seen by men. I tell you truly: They will get what's coming to them. But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.
</blockquote>''

==Liberal opposition to Tebow==

[[Liberal]]s in the sports industry have been long opposed to Tim Tebow because they do not want the spread of Christianity in the NFL. He has been subjected to harassment and criticism for his outward expression of his faith in Christ. Liberals use the accusation, with no basis, that he is a sub-par player as a shield for the fact that they are afraid of the negative reaction of the lame-stream media, which they fear will result in negative publicity and loss of sponsorship for the NFL. Their blinkered philosophy cannot understand that embracing Tebow and his message would lift the NFL out of its current doldrums.

== References ==

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== External Links ==

* [http://www.timtebow.com/ Official website of Tim Tebow]
* [http://www.timtebowfoundation.org/ The Tim Tebow Foundation]

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