Aaron Hernandez and Tim Tebow had been teammates on the College of Florida. In FX’s American Sports activities Story: Aaron Hernandez, their relationship is explored intimately, exhibiting how Tebow launched Hernandez to Christianity. What we find out about how Hernandez‘s former teammate reacted to his homicide costs, nonetheless, is restricted.
“I wanted to grasp why he was so obsessed with faith, about Jesus and about religion,” Patrick Schwarzenegger, who performs Tebow within the 10-episode drama collection, advised The Hollywood Reporter. “It was my job to grasp how he talked about Jesus, how he talked about religion, and what his relationship was to all these issues in order that I may go and go that off onto Aaron.”
There was no proof of how a lot Tebow was conscious of when it got here to Hernandez’s battle, Schwarzenegger’s analysis helped him present why Tebow “notices Aaron abusing medication, partying, alcohol and so forth” and “would attain out and assist somebody by means of their struggles to be this humanizing gentle for Aaron [because] that’s the sort of chief Tim was at Florida,” he stated.
Tim Tebow’s response to Aaron Hernandez’s homicide costs
“It’s simply heartbreaking and unhappy, and all my ideas and prayers exit to all of the households that had been concerned,” Tebow stated in an interview with ESPN in 2013, shortly after Hernandez was arrested for homicide. “I perceive why it’s a must to ask all of the questions; that’s a part of doing all your job. A part of mine is listening to instruction, and we’ve been advised to not discuss it.”
Tebow additionally defended his former coach at Florida, City Meyer, who got here beneath scrutiny amid Aaron’s arrest for a number of causes. “I really feel like Coach Meyer is a good man, among the best I’ve had the privilege of being round,” Tebow stated. “He’s somebody that not solely tries to win soccer video games; he’s somebody who tries to put money into younger males’s lives and assist younger males develop. He cares very deeply about that. That’s one of many causes I’m so near him and so happy with him.”
Meyer was criticized for being a lax disciplinarian and doubtlessly enabling Hernandez‘s problematic habits throughout his time on the College of Florida. There have been at least 31 arrests of Florida gamers throughout Meyer’s tenure from 2005-2010, the New York Instances reported in 2013. Additionally, whereas Meyer reportedly warned at the very least one NFL crew to not draft Hernandez attributable to his habits points, he additionally allegedly satisfied Invoice Belichick that Hernandez’s issues wouldn’t be a problem within the NFL.
“Relating or blaming these severe costs to the College of Florida, myself or our workers is fallacious and irresponsible,” Meyer advised the sportswriter, Tim Could, per the New York Instances. “Our workers, myself, and our households labored very exhausting to mentor and information him,” he stated of Hernandez.
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