In the game of college football, an easy way to distinguish oneself as a douchebag is to write special little notes in one’s eye black (the black paint that players put under their eyes to help reduce glare). Reggie Bush – my most hated college football player ever – used to put his hometown’s area code under his eyes, perhaps representing the height of lameness. Tim Tebow puts bible verses in his eye paint, demonstrating an almost equal amount of lameness. His preferred eye decoration lately has been “3:16″. This is in reference to John 3:16, which reads:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Given the hero-worship all around him, I bet somewhere deep down Tebow is convinced that this passage is referring to him somehow.
Then there’s Terrell Pryor, Ohio State’s talented quarterback, who decided this past weekend to include the name “Vick” under one of his eyes. And he followed it up with this quote:
I always looked up to Mike Vick and I always will, because I still think he is one of the best quarterbacks…Not everybody is the perfect person in the world. Everyone does — kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me. I just feel that people need to give him a chance.
So everyone kills, murders and steals? Good to know. Obviously, Pryor has a bit of a warped view of the world. Or he’s just a moron.
