Tim Tebow's ad draws howls of protests

Tim Tebow, the born-again quarterback who wears his religion on his face as well as his sleeve, has taken the worst that college football can dish out.

He's been knocked flatter than his crew cut. He's been sacked, chased, smashed and battered.

And he hasn't seen anything yet.

Did you hear the news? Tebow has signed up to do a Super Bowl commercial — with a pro-life theme.

Everyone said turning pro would be difficult for Tebow, but nothing like this. If you think 300-pound tackles are tough, wait till he meets the pro-choice crowd. Wait till he wades into Roe v. Wade. Wait till he lowers his head and bulls his way into the scrum of the abortion argument.

What did he risk on the football field, an ACL? A concussion? Ha, child's play! People have been killed over the abortion issue.

On the list of hot-button subjects in this country, the abortion argument ranks up there with healthcare, gay marriage and global warming (but still trails the serious stuff, like the BCS).

Tebow is going to appear in the upcoming commercial with his mother as she discusses his entrance into the world. She'll tell us that she contracted an illness while pregnant with Tim and was advised by a doctor to abort. She gave birth anyway to the baby who grew up to win the Heisman Trophy and become the sort of clean-cut, polite and religious young man that caused TV announcers to gush all over themselves.

The commercial is not explicitly pro-life, but clearly that's the message (the ad is sponsored by a conservative evangelical organization, Focus on Family). Reaction has been swift, even though the commercial has not aired yet. Thousands of comments followed each story on the Internet. It wasn't pretty. Hell hath no fury like a blogger with the abortion issue in his sights.

— Tebow needs to stick to playing ball and shut the *#&$! up on preaching.

— ... just another one of those James Dobson, Kool-Aid drinking, American Taliban that endorse a rewriting of our Constitution to turn this country into a Christian theocracy.

— Give him a religous show on Sunday morning so I can ignore it. And him.

— Tebow's displays of religious paranoia and Christian-based brainwashing is an egotistical cry for attention. "Look at me, I am perfect, follow my thousand year old carbon copy belief system.

— T-Bow, don't do it! Just play the game you love for now and go into politics after the NFL!