<p>I think his FOOTBALL performance last week was awesome. And, I like what he said after the game, especially about his visit with the sick fan. </p>
<p>Others disagree, but I think the media is creating this mania, not Tebow. He quietly and quickly gets on one knee after the game. He thanks God in one sentence along with his teammates and coaches. He responds in greater detail about his faith WHEN ASKED. There are plenty of athletes who do the same but don’t seem to get the scrutiny. I don’t understand it. </p>
<p>He grew up in a family of missionaries. He believes in the great commission. He is being true to himself in spite of the media mania. I do think he is a man of faith and I admire him. I hope the spotlight and pressure is not too much because he is a human being. </p>
<p>I’m in Maryland and that’s why I’m rooting for Tebow. It broke my heart to have to root for him against the Steelers because I am a Mike Tomlin fan.</p>
<p>You don’t think wearing “John 3:16” painted beneath his eyes during the national championship bowl game might have fueled all this baby Jesus stuff just a teensy weensy little bit?</p>
<p>Totally rooting for Tebow. I’ve loved watching him play since he played for the Gators and particularly love watching how hysterical his critics become at the very mention of his name.</p>
<p>I think the Pats will win because their team is better. Personally I will be rooting for the Broncos all the way, but only because a) I’m a Jets fan, and by law we are not allowed to root for the Patriots; and 2) I usually root for the underdog. </p>
<p>I don’t go for or against a team based on one player or one coach, since the Broncos may have a truly evil line backer, while the Pats may have a wonderful person playing offensive tackle, who knows? A team is a team, not just one player.</p>
<p>But all these different opinions is what makes it a sport, and not a foregone conclusion.</p>
<p>I’m the last person to be impressed by overt religiosity - that kind of thing leaves me cold. But Tim Tebow is, by all accounts, the best example of what it is to be a caring, giving human being. I’ll celebrate whatever it is in his make-up and experience that helped him to turn out this way, and I’ll celebrate if he wins on Sunday.</p>
<p>ZM, I’m surprised at your vitriol toward Brady. From the timing of it, it was clear that they broke up before she knew she was pregnant. He met his now-wife Giselle a few weeks after the break up, and Bridget announced her pregnancy to the world when he was already publicly with Giselle. I’ve always thought both Tom and Bridget handled the whole thing with class. No war of words in the papers. I’ve never heard of him saying a single negative thing about Bridget, or Giselle saying anything negative either (although she has gushed perhaps a bit too enthusiastically about how much she loves her stepson). He certainly seems to spend a lot of time with both of his kids. And living in the shadow of Gillette Stadium, if Tom goes for a bike ride without a helmet, we hear about it. Maybe it’s not all as hunky-dory as the public sees, but it certainly isn’t the gutter-wrestling that a lot of celebrities engage in. I also like that Tom and Giselle got married long before they became pregnant with his second child. </p>
<p>When Tom was a 3rd string backup quarterback he used to live about a mile from me. I know several people who worked in restaurants he frequented. They say he was just as nice and polite after he became Superbowl-MVP-ESPN-Coverboy TOM BRADY as he was when he was just a guy no one had ever heard of. Of course he’s moved on up and out since then, but he didn’t leave a bad taste in anyone’s mouth in our town that I know of. (There have been other Patriots players in our town who weren’t quite as well-liked by their neighbors…)</p>
<p>I don’t have anything against Tebow. I just think Brady’s clearly one of the best QBs to ever play the game (check his stats) and he’s still around the peak of his career. Sorry Tim, I think you’ll have many more opportunities in the Superbowl, but it’s not your turn yet. ;)</p>
<p>I’m a huge Tebow fan and have been for years. He is sooooo exciting to watch. Unless you watched him week after week when he was with the Gators, you have absolutely no idea just how good he is. The real Tebow emerged for the first time last week. Give the kid time. And, for those who don’t know, Tim Tebow is a really nice guy. He isn’t arrogant or self-serving. He is confident, though. Nothing wrong with that, IMHO.</p>
<p>That being said, I can’t see Brady and Pats falling to the Broncos. The Broncos are too inconsistent. The Pats are too experienced. </p>
He definitely has skills, but in college he was a man among boys.</p>
<p>QBs that depend on their scrambling and running skills to extend and make plays and pile up significant running yardage tend to be injured a lot because they get the crap beaten out of them, for example Michael Vick and Ben Roethlisberger. Both have played all 16 games only once in their careers.</p>
<p>If Tebow is going to have a long career, it’s critical that he learn how to pass in the pocket, and pass successfully. 47% completion percentage isn’t going to get it done.</p>
<p>He has also gotten a disproportionate amount of credit for their wins, as well. The Broncos won 5 games where they scored less than 18 points. Who is the real star in those games? The Broncos averaged less points per game with Tebow than they did with Orton.</p>
<p>It’s kind of fun watching all the hype, and I think he encourages it, which bugs me some - for example, he could wait 1 minute until he is in the locker room before “tebowing” but then he wouldn’t have 5 cameras on him. To some degree he is more lucky than good (two of their wins were literally gift-wrapped and delivered by their opponents). I think the jury is still out. If he can’t get his completion percentage up into the 60’s his run at qb will be short. </p>
<p>I think the Denver defense will be key. Their offense will likely score 24-28 points against a historically bad Patriot defense (less if he turns it over), but the Bronco defense is schizophrenic - they have given up over 40 points four times this year.</p>
<p>I’ll be wearing my lucky Gronk jersey, though, so I’m not worried. </p>
<p>Agree with xiggi; the circus is all his doing. </p>
<p>No one else sees anything wrong with his not speaking out about the Denver billboard? Although he had no responsibility for it, don’t you think his silence had the potential to create a lot of team discontent?</p>
<p>And most importantly, WHEN DID RODGERS GET A GIRLFRIEND??? I thought I’d been paying close attention to this. Guess my hope for one of my girls ending up with him are dwindling.</p>
<p>People need to stop taking the discussion of Tebow’s religion so seriously. Just sit back and enjoy the show. He’ll win nearly all of his games, in the least impressive way possible. He’s a force of nature that way. It’s just great.</p>
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Honestly, when he passed for 316 yards this past game, I couldn’t help but stand up and applaud. I love how entertaining everything about him is.</p>
<p>I was a little upset when his winning streak broke, because it ruined by favorite joke…</p>
<p>“Tim Tebow is 7-1, he’s unbeatable.”
“What about the 1?”
“Even Jesus died once.”</p>
<p>Although I am far from a devout Christian, I have no problem with the folks that like to think or imagine that there is some kind of divine intervention at work here. Who’s to say, and more importantly why can’t people let others believe what they want & say what they want when they want. And he ain’t a bad role model either.</p>
<p>What has frosted me lately is when some of the non-Christian sports talk show hosts on radio have continuously mocked these Tebow-ites for their beliefs, calling them stupid, nonsensical and delusional. I assure you, if the shoe were on the other foot and their religion was being maligned, they’d be having a conniption fit. But they have the microphone, so they’re right & everyone else is an idiot.</p>
<p>^^^ That’s what I’m saying. Yes, he put 3:16 on his eye-black strips (or whatever they are called), but all this divine intervention stuff about the number of his passing yards is the hoopla created by others. Did he ever say, “God ensured that I threw exactly 316 yards”? If so, I missed it. Others have latched onto it, and the media is fanning the flames.</p>
<p>I just watched another classic Football game on Netflix last night.
**Harvard beats Yale—29-29 <a href=“in%201968”>/b</a></p>
<p>It was great, and I couldn’t help make comparisons between ** Brian Dowling <a href=“never%20heard%20of%20him%20before%20the%20movie-I’m%20not%20a%20big%20football%20fan”>/b</a>, and ** Tim Tebow.**
The way the players, including Tommy Lee Jones, who was on the Harvard team,
and Meryl Streep’s then boyfriend on the Yale team,
talked about “divine intervention”, and “magic” of that game, it was exciting given Tebowmania now. </p>
<p>Bear in mind that Tebow HAD to scramble at Florida because it had no O-line when he was quarterbacking there. Seriously. Watch film of those Gator games. There was NO pocket. It was scramble or get creamed. Dan Mullen called the 5-wide on just about every play leaving the O-line short a man or two. Tebow carried the team on his back - literally.</p>
<p>His passing stats at Denver do not reflect his passing skills. Look at the play calling - Run on 1st down, run on 2nd down, Hail Mary on 3rd down. Repeat for every offensive series. And, how many times did Tebow put it in the numbers of a Denver receiver and his receiver dropped it? More times than I can count. Somebody needs to teach them how to close their hands when the ball arrives in them.</p>
<p>Last week’s game was the first time I’ve seen Denver allow Tebow to be, well, Tebow. When he was playing for the Gators, I saw him drop the perfect pass in the corner of the end zone to Riley Cooper more times than I can count. I saw him dump it off to the Aaron Hernandez or pitch it out to Percy Harvin on the triple option with perfect (and I mean perfect) timing. Of course, he had receivers who could actually catch the ball. </p>
<p>Give Tebow time, good receivers, and good play-calling. He’ll do just fine in the NFL.</p>
<p>For anyone buying into the 3:16 coincidence, consider Romald Wilson Reagan. Each of his names had 6 letters, which yields 666, the number of the beast. </p>
<p>Do you buy that too?</p>
<p>I have no problem with Tebow’s piety, although I’m not happy with it being exploited by the likes of Fox News and its minions.</p>
<p>F = 6
O = 15; 1+5 = 6
X = 24; 2+4 = 6
FOX = 666</p>
<p>You can play these kinds of games endlessly. </p>
<p>I also didn’t like the fact that we live in a society that allows an anti-abortion Super Bowl ad featuring Tebow, just a few years after rejecting an ad by the United Church of Christ about their gay welcoming policies. </p>
<p>Besides, everyone knows that the Lord hates cheese and loves the Giants. (After all, you can’t spell BELIEVE without ELI.)</p>
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