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I've never met the man, but I get the impression he would be just as content serving as a missionary in a Third World country as he is playing quarterback for the Broncos.
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Not his teammates or his coaches, his fans or even himself, but his God. He plays football ? and lives his life ? to please only one master. Here's the beauty of Tebow: He doesn't care what anyone thinks or says about him. The experts have been rendered speechless by Tebow's improbable success. If the game had ended at the 58-minute mark, Tebow may never have been given another opportunity in the NFL. Tebow's performance for 58 minutes was excruciatingly painful to watch ? kind of like undergoing a colonoscopy and a root canal at the same time. I watched the Broncos-Dolphins game from beginning to end. Down 15-0 with about two minutes to play, Tebow spearheaded two touchdowns to send the game into overtime, where the Broncos won on a field goal. The first, against the Miami Dolphins, defied belief. Then, in the fourth quarter, Tebow suddenly becomes Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers and orchestrates an improbable victory. Since being named the Broncos' starting quarterback in Week 7, Tebow has led the team to a 7-1 record, including a six-game winning streak.Īlong the way, a predictable pattern has emerged: For three quarters Tebow and the offense are highly ineffective. But one thing is incontrovertible ? he wins football games. The jury still is out on some of Tebow's supposed deficiencies. We were told, ad nauseam, his throwing motion was too elongated, he wasn't accurate, he couldn't master the complexities of NFL defenses, and so on. The general consensus by football experts before the 2010 NFL draft was that Tebow lacked the passing skills to succeed as a quarterback. Factor in Tebow's unabashed proclamation of the Christian faith and you've got a storyline that is generating visceral reactions from coast to coast. If that sounds like an exaggeration, you haven't been paying attention, sports fans.Īll great sports stories have four things in common: an underdog, overwhelming odds, high drama and jaw-dropping outcomes. men's hockey team over the Soviet Union in the 1980 Winter Olympics, Jack Nicklaus' climactic final round charge and subsequent victory (at age 46) in the 1986 Masters, and the stunning, come-from-behind victory by the Boston Red Sox over the New York Yankees to win the 2004 American League championship (and then the World Series). In fact, the Tim Tebow story arguably is one of the greatest sports stories in my lifetime (I'm 52), rivaling the victory by the U.S. As an avid football fan and former quarterback in the National Football League (Green Bay Packers, 1981-84), I have never witnessed a more compelling, entertaining, unbelievable, dramatic ? and emotionally satisfying ? football story than the one unfolding this season in Denver. One columnist recently dubbed it "The Greatest Gridiron Story Ever Told."