I'm also allowed to suggest that Tebow's behavior (some might call it arrogance) is laughable.
And if you don't get the reference to the Coen brothers, fine. I don't know whether they were spoofing the exact same phenomenon. But sports figures (and fans) who overproject an image is a recurring theme in our culture. There are many comparisons that can be made; I'm sure you won't find all of them amusing.
And, BTW, Liam and me, we're gonna ******** you! You got a date, baby!!
From https://www.offscreen.com/index.php/pages/essays/big_lebowski/ (By: Daniel Garrett Published: May 31st 2008) :
"The subject that has driven western philosophy and culture, maybe all of the world’s culture, turns out to be one that the film handles: What does it mean to be a man? The authors J. M. Tyree and Ben Walters in “What Makes a Man” refer to the Coen brothers’ history for some sense of how the Coens have handled the subject in the past, such as with the film Barton Fink: and Tyree and Walters see a critique of masculinity and posturing in Coen films. Barton Fink, a social realist writer, is described as having “a veneer of empathy that in fact papers over an emotional deafness. Barton must confront the fact that his passionate fellow-feeling is so much narcissistic blah, his affinity with ‘the common man’ quickly dissolving when that man is laughing too loudly next door or trying to have a dance in Barton’s place” (65). What could be worse than not being the man you think you are, when your standards proclaim your values the only values? In The Big Lebowski, the Dude refuses macho challenges of the larger world; meanwhile, his friend Walter is conflicted with concerns for order and a rapacious rage (Walter is the kind of person who prefers any belief to no belief and needs the world in tune with him; however, the film will show him capable of tenderness). The Dude “has rejected conventional codes of masculinity in favour of his own terms” (85); and, of course, he does not try to impose his terms on others; and eventually he discovers the falseness of the kidnapping plot and actual bankruptcy, financial and moral, of the other Jeffrey Lebowski, who is much smaller than had been thought."
