Dear Timmy,
When you throw 4 interceptions and lose 40-14, please shut the hell up about your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I mean no offense (but you wouldn’t take any regardless, because you’re forgiving like that), but dude, learn some marketing skills!
You had a terrible game and lost.
Listen, you had a huge opportunity to quiet the naysayers, to show some HUMILITY (yes, slapping people in the face with your Lord and Savior every time you get in front of a mic comes across as pretty arrogant, actually), talk about the mistakes in the game, your poor play, and what you’re going to logically work on for next week’s game.
Had you done that, people would still be talking about your poor play, but you’d have won a lot of social points for laying off the Bible thumping talk. People would have been quite relieved, and you’d have been held in higher esteem.
I know that because I was on your bandwagon, but because you wouldn’t address your poor play like a man and instead used your interview to preach about Christmas and how losing is a “trial & tribulation”, I lost a ton of respect. I can only imagine how the haters must have thought…
Instead of manning up and talking about the loss, you avoided questions about the game and your crappy play, and you talked about Christmas, about how fun it’s going to be to celebrate your Savior’s birthday (which was actually a pagan holiday originally, bro…look it up), and about how your mom taught you to give your tribulations to the Lord.
Dude, take some responsibility!
2 things that drive me absolutely bonkers regarding religious people:
1. They think everything good that happens is entirely because God had it happen. This is a slap in the face of their Creator, who endowed them with gifts that allowed them to take action and accomplish what they accomplished. God will NOT use your gifts for you. Only you taking action can bring about positive results.
It’s also totally irrational, given the next point…
2. Anything bad that happens they think is a trial, a tribulation, a struggle of good and evil. Oh, but what happened to all your results coming from God? Take some freaking responsibility! Maybe your tribulations are a result of your mistakes, just like your successes are a result of you using the gifts God gave you properly!
So, Tim, take Kurt Warner’s advice, grow up some, and tone it down. We get it – you love Jesus. Just play football now, and let your life do the talking.
Otherwise, you’re just giving the haters more ammunition, and in this case, they’ve got a legitimate gripe. You played like crap and lost huge. Talk about football, because at that point, by continuing to praise Jesus and talk religion, you’re just HURTING your cause.
When you win miraculously, maybe people will think there’s something about your Jesus they want.
When you play terrible and lose big, don’t talk about Jesus. Nobody will want him.
It’s simple marketing 101.
