As many of you sports fans have come to have embedded in your brain, the new "Tim Tebow" of basketball is Jeremy Lin of the New York Knicks. He has helped lead the Knicks to seven wins out of the last eight games, during that span, Lin is averaging a tad over 28 points per game. During this streak, Lin has also become media magnet for the sports world. But the question I would like to ask the sports world is, why is Jeremy Lin being praised so much while Tim Tebow was mostly criticized on television programs like ESPN? Most of Tebow's criticism had come because of his upfront religious views that he clearly expresses on a daily basis but in Jeremy Lin's press conference after making the game winning shot against the Toronto Raptors, he was quoted as saying "I believe in an all powerful and all knowing god that does miracles". I have come to the conclusion that both guys are very religious and that's there own personal decision but I do believe that the media should not be talking about that, and they should focus on two great players in their respective sports that may go on to have great careers.
Don't get me wrong, both guys seem like great guys, but I cannot stand what media does to sports. In an essence Lin and Tebow are alike, they were both winning games for their respective teams, so why criticize them? Tebow was set up to fail with all of the people who wanted to see him do so on television, and in the newspapers but yet he still turned his team around and led them to a playoff victory. In Jeremy Lin's case, no one wants to see him fail, which is mind boggling to me because he seems like the same exact kind of guy as Tim Tebow, but hey I'm excited to see how this thing plays out. If Lin's Knicks start losing games will he be thrown under the bus?
No comments:
Post a Comment