The video features a star quarterback and a strong pro-life message. But it's not the ad by Tim Tebow and his mother.
A 9-minute pro-life video featuring six members of the New York Giants team that won Super Bowl XXI is similar to the ad expected from Tebow, without the surrounding firestorm.
Wellington Mara, the son of the Giants' founder, was co-owner of the team until his death in 2005. Along the way, he became an iconic figure in the NFL and was inducted into the Hall of Fame. Mara also was staunchly pro-life, serving on the board of the American Life League.
In 1989, Mara helped produce "Champions for Life," which featured highlights from the Super Bowl matchup between the Giants and the Denver Broncos in 1986, the year before Tebow was born.
Former Giants quarterback and CBS analyst Phil Simms said Feb. 2 his appearance in the video was the right thing to do.
"You do what you believe in, and I respected Mara and had great faith in him. I thought the world of him, and he asked me to do something for him, and it was something I believed in at the time, so I did it," Simms told Baptist Press during media day activities ahead of Super Bowl XLIV in Miami.
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Source: Erin Roach, Baptist Press
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