Tebow's public prayer is a bit more than just pointing to the sky. Granted, it may be helping improve is playing (even if you don't believe in prayer like this does anything supernatural) simply as a meditative and focusing action.

I'm not begrudging the NFL (though it isn't their place to say anything) as much as the Evangelicals (on radio, tv, etc) who are making an example of him, of this idea that the only people of any worth are those who make public displays of their faith. It bothers me because he's being held as an example yet his actions go against what I believe the Word intended, and it bothers me because of their rank hypocrisy regarding people of other religions being public with their own prayers.