Tebow continues to silence critics
DENVER - In an incredible span of a few months, Tim Tebow has gone from a guy who should be working at Jiffy Lube to a guy who shouldn’t be a starting quarterback in the NFL to a guy who will never win a game in the NFL to a guy who will never win a playoff game in the NFL. Who’s got next? Tebow is too proud and courteous to say it, so I’ll do it for him.
How do you like me now, haters? Jealous much?
His 80-yard-throw-and-run TD pass to Demaryius Thomas on the first play of overtime to win a first-round playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers adds to the legacy of Tebow, and will only serve to send the polarizing yada-yada to crazier extremes in cyberspace.
The heart of the matter is that with Tebow, it’s always been about much more than X’s and O’s. Each game behind center for the Denver Broncos has become a morality play, with the haters and the atheists like Bill Maher lining up on one side, squaring off against All Who Believe.
Do you have faith? Are you a good person? Is God on your side?
I hardly think God is picking favorites if there is a heaven, though if there is a sports book up there you never know. Did the Big Guy take the points and the Broncos on Sunday?
Tebow would never joke about that because he is a young man of faith, and that’s something that seems to be extremely troublesome for some people. Perhaps it’s because it forces us to look deeper at ourselves and wonder if there is an after-life, and whether or not our actions will deem us worthy of eternal salvation.
America seems to prefer athletes who don’t have much personal or religious conviction. Just run a 4.4 40 please, run your post route precisely, and by all means hit the wide receiver as he breaks on the out pattern.
Who wants God to meddle with the religion that is the National Football League?
Everything becomes exaggerated with Tebow. Those who love him think he is destined for the Hall of Fame.
Those who loathe him say things like this, posted on my Facebook page recently, referencing a meeting with Blake Appleton, a child dying from brain cancer: “The guy could be the most wonderful, compassionate human to come down the pike since his idol. So what? There are plenty of his sort wandering the landscape. That doesn’t change the reality that he’s not a viable long-term starting QB in the NFL. Never was. His game is not suited to it [i.e. it sucks], and he should be moved to another position or spend the rest of his career where he belongs – on the bench.” Um, not really. Who knows? Maybe it all blows up against the New England Patriots next week.
All I know is this: Tebow threw for 316 yards, two passed for two TDS, and ran for another against the defending AFC champions.
“He really answered the bell,” said John Elway, the executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos.
“He came out and played great. You know what? He pulled that trigger and he put it right on the money.”
Tebow also broke Elway’s record for most passing yards in a playoff debut. “I love it,” Elway said. “Perfect.” Who knows, Tim Tebow might be a keeper.