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Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick (former because he is a free agent currently unsigned by any NFL team) is most famous among football fans -- and a good many people who don't follow football at all -- as the one who kicked off a trend among NFL players in 2016 of refusing to stand to attention during the playing of the American national anthem prior to the start of games as a form of protest: Another former NFL quarterback, Tim Tebow (former because he is currently pursing a career as a professional baseball player), is perhaps best known for displaying his Christian faith on the gridiron, including his practice of kneeling in silent prayer on the field, a practice that came to be known as Tebowing: So indeed, Colin Kaepernick and Tim Tebow are both former NFL quarterbacks who are outwardly religious and became household figures for kneeling on football fields. Although that last aspect (the kneeling) has sparked very different responses from the public in each case, that difference is not the hypocritical one that the following meme would have viewers believe: Tim Tebow's pro-life stance is well known, but he didn't take a knee during the national anthem. And when Tebow did kneel on the gridiron, his actions were those of private prayer conducted during incidental moments surrounding a game and not, as Colin Kapernick's were, a form of public protest purposefully tied to the playing of the U.S. national anthem. Fans may, of course, disagree over how these two quarterbacks' extracurricular displays on the football field have been (or should have been) received by the public and by NFL officials, but the two cases had significant distinctions; they weren't equivalent actions that were hypocritically regarded in very different ways by different groups:
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