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He’s got folk hero status across the country.
He’s winning when everybody was betting against him.
He’s won over fans outside of football.
Could Tim Tebow one day win elections like he’s winning football games now? It’s clearly way too soon to predict, before you scoff at the notion of an athlete leveraging success on the field or court to success in politics, remember: there is a precedent, and plenty of it.
No, the title of this post is not hyperbole. And if you don’t believe me now, you most certainly will after watching this.
There really are no words that will do it justice…so just watch, and try to resist the urge to get up and run head first into a brick wall FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!
(You can laugh though; that’s okay…he can’t hear you. You’re safe.)
Unfortunately, some St. Louis fans could not accept Albert Pujols receiving this much-deserved award, and instead renounced their slugger and skipper. Nor could “mainstream” news outlets which displayed their intolerance here, here, and here, and will waste more ink in the days to come no doubt.
According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, about 30 people gathered Saturday outside Busch Stadium to speak against Tony La Russa and Pujols attending the rally in our Nation’s Capital.
One man carried a sign that said “I had a dream baseball wasn’t political.” He added, “I’m fed up that politics has to invade every aspect our lives.”
Sir, for better or worse, LIFE is political. And it has always intersected with sports, though not nearly to the degree of Hollywood, where politics are predominantly one-sided. While sports may be more balanced, the first political shots in baseball were fired many times earlier this year.
I was browsing some Cleveland Browns news sites tonight, searching for information regarding the mysterious illness that is currently hindering Kellen Winslow (click the link above to find out more), and I stumbled across an interesting little bit of news: Brady Quinn recently spoke at a Republican rally for John McCain and Sarah Palin.
John McCain was in attendance (not sure about Palin), and Brady Quinn took the microphone briefly to make a few remarks. (There is no truth to the report that Brady held out for a better microphone, and that Derek Anderson then ste
pped in and wowed the crowd with surprisingly strong and deep remarks of his own, rendering Quinn useless on the sidelines. Nope, that was just a rumor).
According to Tony Grossi of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Brady Quinn’s father is a Vietnam Veteran who has long been an admirer of John McCain’s. Brady was able to introduce his father to McCain while attending the event. Browns left tackle Joe Thomas also attended the McCain-Palin rally with Brady Quinn, but did not speak.
Look, it is not my habit of mixing politics and sports here at Midwest Sports Fans, but this story caught my eye for a few reasons. Here are a few of them:
