Review Of Tim Tebow And Nathan Whitaker's Through My Eyes

Tim Tebow and Nathan Whitaker’s wonderfully crafted autobiography Through My Eyes is a 260 page masterpiece. The story follows Tebow’s football career, from peewee to the pros. His extreme Christian faith that he was brought up on, and his homeschooling allowing him to practice it. From living in the Philippines, to living in Jacksonville. He faced adversity for his size and peculiar throwing style, but pursued to be a Heisman winning quarterback rather a linebacker.

Tebow wrote his autobiography to showcase his life of a devout Christian, and becoming the most popular player in college and professional football. He writes about spreading his faith on an astounding platform, from writing scriptures under his eyes with eye black to taking a

Tebow also writes about his successes on and off the field, winning two National Championships with the Florida Gators, winning a Heisman Trophy in 2007, being a first round NFL draft pick, beating the Steelers in the 2011 playoffs with an overtime win, as well as becoming a missionary, making recurring trips to his birthplace.

Tim Tebow’s book had many great insights about his life, but there are three events that are above the rest. In chapter four, Tim talks about his life on their Jacksonville farm, his little league baseball career, and an insight to his upbringing. “Uncle Dick was our next door neighbor and an important part of our lives. Known to the rest of the world as Richard Fowler, I really thought he was my uncle”(pg 7.). Tebow and his siblings spend every Saturday morning at Uncle Dick’s to watch cartoons, as their family didn’t own a television. Dick became very close with the Tebow’s, and eventually attended one of Robert’s (Tim’s dad) church services and accepted Christ. Robert was a Baptist, and intended on raising his children to live a Christian life. Dick would supply the young Tebows with plenty of popsicles and Coke. In chapter eight, Tim Tebow gets his first taste of the recruitment

When Tim was back in his Jacksonville farm growing up, they had a visit by none other than White Sox pitcher Joel Davis. He had met Rob Tebow through Fellowship of the Christian Athletes, and intended on dropping his dog (respectively named White Sox) off at the Tebow farm. Davis spent the day out there, enjoying playing baseball with the Tebow boys. Tim Tebow used to write Philippians 4:13 under his eyes with eye black, until their Championship in 2008, when he decided to write John 3:16. That Bible verse was then searched by 94 million people immediately after the game. The summer before Tebow entered high school, he attended a retreat in Hilliard, Florida. There was a contest to see how many curls one could do with a 55 pound bar. The highest amount was 55 times. Tim was last, but he began as pumping away. He finished with an incredible total of 315 reps. He had won, by a longshot. In Tebow’s 2007 season, they played LSU. The students from Louisiana somehow got ahold of Tim’s phone number, and began to penetrate his cellular device with violent and sexual messages pertaining to him and his family. LSU, depressingly won in heartbreaking fashion, 28-24. The most shocking fact about Tim was that he almost never became Tim, as he would’ve died during birth. His mother also would have perished if not for some miracle. His placenta was just barely attached to keep the nutrients flowing