Save Tebowmania!

I've backed off writing on this because... well, frankly, not too many have.  But I'd like to finally go on record as saying, I'm a Tim Tebow fan.  I am usually a fan of a man - or woman - who succeeds when all odds are against them.  But what sweetens the pot in the mega-Tebow-universe is the taking of the high road.  The “aw shucks, I just try to do whatever I can to help my team win” road.  The Tim Tebow road.  This young man has done little wrong, outside of his inability to zip a football 30 yards on a dime, yet has been crucified - and I use that term lightly when it comes to Tim - for being a suck-ass quarterback.  His winning record gets accredited to luck or to his team's defense and his sub-superhuman passer rating is nowhere near Tom Brady’s, so let's rip the guy week after week.  Especially when he's done absolutely nothing except show up for practice.  I mean, when is enough going to be enough? 

I mentioned at the start that I've avoided writing about Tebow. and believe me, it hasn’t been easy.  I don't want to do any disservice to him.  After all, I've never been an NFL quarterback, but the whole New York Jets thing?  I saw that one coming.  Florida boy never stood a chance there.  No matter what happened.  The Jets are a totally dysfunctional team, that has done absolutely nothing since Joe Namath guaranteed and won them a Super Bowl 43 years ago.  They themselves are much like Tebow.  Just talked about to be talked about.  Not a good match, ol’ Timmy and those Jets.  Bringing in someone like Tebow, who has proven to us that he can win despite the experts practically slamming their fists on the table and screaming that he can’t, as though he took their daughter’s virginity out of wedlock, to back up their overpaid first round draft choice, Mark Sanchez, who after only ONE year as a starter at USC, is as overrated as they come.  Now, I like the Giants and I'm a die-hard Yankees fan so it's got nothing to do with east coast/New York big media bias.  I just can't stand the pomp and circumstance that goes with big city green team who has done nothing to garner the attention they receive.

The New York Jets traded for Tim Tebow then took this away from us.  We just want to Tebow.

This would never happen under Bill Billichick.  It would never have happened under Vince Lombardi, Tom Landry or Don Shula.  What's become evident in these days, that wasn't there when those greats roamed the sidelines, is the presence of the General Manager or Vice President of Football Operations or whatever fancy-shmansy term they can come up with to pay a guy.  The man who picks the players!  For God's sake, the Denver Broncos young first year head coach, Josh McDaniel, picked Tim Tebow because he saw something in him that perhaps no one else did.  McDaniel has since been fired as head coach of the Broncos, but is back calling plays for the New England Patriots.  The same Patriots who are heading to the AFC Championship game again.

Let's get back to Tim.  Tim loves his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and has no qualms about letting us know that.  I'm pretty sure that I just heard Ray Lewis, the Baltimore Raven's larger-than-life superstar linebacker who is retiring at season's end, praise that same Jesus in his post game interviews.  Can someone explain the difference to me?  And don't pipe-in that Lewis is an exceptional athlete who has done more for his team at his position than anyone in the history of the game.  While that may be true, was he cast upon the bright lights of media scrutiny before he even touched an NFL field?  Maybe a little... and for all the wrong reasons, but please.  Not to the extent of Mr. Tebow.  Ray Lewis was never told he could not win in the NFL.  I wonder if that would have motivated him to be even greater?  Tim was doomed from draft day.  He would have had to outdone everybody, who has ever played quarterback to have had a fair shake.

The season is darn near over and we’re still talking about Tebow.  What prompted this post were reports of Tebow working out at a junior college in Arizona.  This means, in Tebowmania language, that Tim is going to the Arizona Cardinals next year.  If Tebow were spotted up here in Midway, Utah at Soldier Hollow, I’m sure that would mean he is switching sports to cross country skiing and is preparing for the next winter Olympics.  Let’s cut this guy some slack, huh?  Nobody’s following Matt Flynn around.  Tebowmania should be reserved for when, and I do mean when, Tebow leads his next team to a win.  And do you know what that s.o.b. will have the nerve to say when some reporter asks him how he did it?  “Aw shucks, I just try to do whatever I can to help my team win.”  How dare him.