How can you not love Tim Tebow.
He’s the Sanjaya of the NFL.
No matter what he does.
He wins.
No matter how he does it.
He wins.
No matter how many experts say what a loser he is.
He wins.
Now as a diehard Raiders fan, I’m not really wild about having such a winner in our division.
But this guy is truly something.
Terrible.
Erratic.
Brutal
Odious.
Wretched.
That’s Tebow.
But at the end of the game.
He just beat you.
Somehow.
And nobody can really explain how he does it.
Not me.
Not the broadcasters.
Not his coaches.
But today I found a higher source that must know something that none of us do.
My iPhone.
When I went to send a text with Tebow’s name in it, my iPhone told me that Tebow is not a word.
It suggested changing “Tebow” to “Renown”.
As in “a state of being widely acclaimed or highly honored.”
Now that’s a smart phone.
Tim Tebow might’ve been great at throwing a football through a tire at the Florida Fairground.
But in the NFL, he can barely complete a pass.
Last week in Kansas City he threw the ball eight times.
In the entire game.
Completed two.
As in One.
And Two.
That’s it.
That’s 25% for those of you without a calculator.
Those two passes went for a grand total of 69 yards.
Tom Brady does that in two minutes.
Tim Tebow does that in a game.
For most quarterbacks, 69 passing yards in a game would equal a trip to the Arena Football League.
For Tim Tebow it meant a win.
Another win.
His third win in four weeks since becoming the starter.
Wins against the pathetic Miami Dolphins.
The enigmatic Oakland Raiders.
And those anemic Chiefs from Kansas City.
But in the NFL, a win is a win.
And right now Tebow is piling them up.
Like a stack of pancakes at IHOP.
His latest conquest came Thursday night in Denver.
Against the not-so-high flying Jets of New York.
For 55 minutes, Tebow was his usual terrible self.
15 passes.
Six completions.
69 yards.
The same exact 69 yards he threw for one week earlier.
When he beat the Chiefs.
But the game is not 55 minutes long.
It’s 60.
And in the last five minutes, Tebow did what Tebow do.
Win.
He led the Broncos on a where-in-the-hell-did-this-come-from 95-yard drive.
From one side of the field.
To the other.
Running the final 20 yards.
Into the end zone.
For the game-winning touchdown.
Again.
Watching a Denver quarterback rally his team to victory in the final minutes of a game is nothing new.
John Elway made a career of it.
But Tim Tebow is no John Elway.
He is better.
Hey, that’s not me talking.
That’s the numbers.
In his first eight starts, John Elway had a record of 3-5.
With three touchdowns.
And 10 interceptions.
In his first eight starts, Tim Tebow has a record of 5-3.
With 10 touchdowns.
And four interceptions.
Wait, there’s more.
In his entire career -- you know, those eight starts (plus two in relief).
Tebow has rallied the Broncos back from 10+ points in the fourth quarter to win three times.
In his 234 games, Elway -- the Hall of Famer -- rallied the Broncos back from 10+ points in the fourth quarter.
Twice.
Now you don’t need 3D glasses to see that the style of Tebow and the style of Elway have absolutely nothing in common.
Nothing.
But at the end of the day, they both know how to win.
And now they are attached at the hip.
When Tebow reached the end zone to win the game on Thursday night.
The first thing the TV broadcast did was cut to a shot of Big John.
In his luxury suite.
Wearing his new hat as the Executive VP of Football Operations for the Broncos.
Tebow’s Broncos.
Elway was clapping.
And almost smiling.
But let’s be honest.
Tim Tebow winning in Denver is the last thing that John Elway expected when he took the job in January.
And if I were a gambling man, I would double down that Elway doesn’t believe that Tebow can win a Super Bowl.
But after the last month, there is a 0.0 chance Elway will be able to get rid of Tebow at the end of the year.
As he had planned.
And with TebowMania running wild, there is a 0.0 chance Elway will select his franchise quarterback in the next draft.
As he had planned.
But Tebow Time is not just a Denver story anymore.
It's the best story to happen to the NFL in years.
And that's something that nobody expected.
2 comments:
As a 30+ year Broncos' fan I am livid at what Tebow is doing. He is killing our team in the long term. He is NOT the long term solution and by winning as many games as he has he is KILLING our chances of drafting someone like Matt Barkley who WOULD BE the long term solution. When they showed Elway happy after the winning TD it reminded me of the Miss America Contest. When they get down to the last 2 and then announce a winner - the one who doesn't win smiles as if she won. But deep down she wants to strangle the winner so she can be the new Miss America. Elway and John Fox were smiling at what Tebow did but deep down they wanna strangle him for what he is doing to the long term future of this club. And I don't blame them - so do I!
How can an Anonymous person be so obvious?
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