A Super Bowl Prediction

Published on by D. G. Hart

In the 2040s, the National Football League will see the emergence of two star quarterbacks who will be playing repeatedly for Conference championships and the Super Bowl. Their last names will be Tebow, sons of Tim.

I could be wrong, but I have wondered throughout all the banter about Tim Tebow if the folks discussing his poor skills as a quarterback remember a fellow with similar challenges by the name of Archie Manning. The father of Peyton and Eli, both of Super Bowl fame, was a gifted college athlete at Ole’ Miss who was tough and could run better than he could throw. But as a professional quarterback he was not as successful, perhaps because he played for eleven years for the hapless New Orleans Saints. He ended his 13-year career — one with the Vikings and one with the Oilers — having completed 2,011 of 3,642 passes for 23,911 yards and 125 touchdowns, with 173 interceptions. He also rushed for 2,197 yards and 18 touchdowns. Archie’s record as a starter was 35–101–3 (26.3%), the worst in NFL history among QBs with at least 100 starts.

But his record as a dad of quarterbacks was stellar. Maybe Archie was born-again, maybe not. But as the order of creation teaches, blood lines matter in horse racing and professional athletics.

7 thoughts on “A Super Bowl Prediction”

  1. What does this tell us about Bob Jones IV? Or about the “covenant children” of Doug Wilson and John Piper? I often wonder how many who were not raised as “covenant children” are now “ordained clergy” in the OP or United Reformed or PCA? Was the bad music from Fanny Crosby enough in itself to get baptist heirs out of the baptist camps?

    Surely the “covenant children” born to these ex-baptists have greater “covenantal” duties than did their parents. But did the opportunities for curse also increase?

    I won’t ask if Robert Webber had any children. I wonder instead about that third Telbow son, the one who simply won’t be able to cut it in the NFL….

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  2. “In the 2040s, the National Football League will see the emergence of two star quarterbacks who will be playing repeatedly for Conference championships and the Super Bowl. Their last names will be Tebow, sons of Tim.”
    Call it random association, but somehow this reminded me of the Chuck Norris joke that ends with the entire undefeated Miami Dolphin team being his sons. Couldn’t there be a similar line of Tim Tebow jokes? There’s gotta be a joke there about turning gatorade into wine. Tebow in the Detroit Lions’ den? Yeah, I’ll keep my day job.

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  4. When, in 2005, Steven Jones, president of BJU, was asked by Newsweek if he wished to play a political role as had his predecessors, he replied, “It would not be my choice.” Further, when asked if he felt ideologically closer to his father’s engagement with politics, he answered, “The gospel is for individuals. The main message we have is to individuals. We’re not here to save the culture.” In a 2005 Washington Post interview, Jones dodged political questions and even admitted that he was embarrassed by “some of the more vitriolic comments” made by his predecessors. “I don’t want to get specific,” he said, “But there were things said back then that I wouldn’t say today.” In October 2007 when Bob Jones III, as “a private citizen,” endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination for president, Stephen Jones made it clear that he wished “to stay out of politics” and that neither he nor the University had endorsed anyone. In April 2008 he told a reporter, “I don’t think I have a political bone in my body.”

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  5. “Bloodlines” of course is the name of John Piper’s recent book “against racism”. This past week Piper and Doug Wilson were again confederates at the 2012 Desiring God conference. Wilson’s most controversial work is probably his pamphlet Southern Slavery, As It Was, which he wrote along with Steve Wilkins. The pamphlet stated that “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races that we believe we can say has never existed in any nation before the War or since.” Historians such as Peter H. Wood, Clayborne Carson, and Bancroft Prize winner Ira Berlin condemned the pamphlet’s arguments, with Wood calling them as spurious as holocaust denial.

    Doug Wilson described critical attacks on his “old school” book as ‘abolitionist propaganda’. He has described his own views as ‘paleo-Confederate’. He has said his “long war” is not on behalf of white supremacy; rather, Wilson seeks to revive the memory of ages in Western history when family, church, and the organic “community of Christians” (T. S. Eliot) were more powerful than the nation- state.

    Doug Wilson redacted the arguments in the tract, and published (without Wilkins) a new set of essays under the name Black & Tan after consulting with historian Eugene Genovese. One of Doug Wilson’s other “Reformed” books is entitled Mother Kirk: Essays and Forays in Practical Ecclesiology

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