Broadway Tebow

While at Florida Tim Tebow showed a will to win that was praised all over but for me what a stood out to me was the press conference after the Ole Miss vs. Florida loss. Tim's last statement before getting up was “To the fans, the Gator Nation, I’m sorry. Extremely sorry. But I promise you one thing: a lot of good will come from this. You will never see a player, in the entire country, play as hard as I will play the rest of the season. You will never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of this season. And you will never see a team play harder than we will play the rest of the season. God bless.” Tebow then got up and walked off and as for his pledge, the Gators exceeded it. Tim Tebow became college football royalty. The NFL was a different story, sort of. The college game and pro game are two totally different styles of football. The shotgun spread or wildcat offense can work in the college game but in the pros the defensive linemen are too big and too fast so plays like the the option pitch may catch a defense off guard but are quickly be stopped. In the NFL quarterbacks have to throw the ball, whereas in college quarterbacks can be better athletes than passers and run the ball out the back field. When Tebow entered the draft critics railroaded him and said he couldnt throw at all. With Denver in rebuilding mode Tim never really got the stability a rookie would need and a rushed off season due to a lockout he never had a chance to try geting better going into his second season. It seemed that nobody in Broncos front office including Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway had confidence in Tim Tebow and other than ESPN'S Skip Bayless no football analyst did either. As for the fans, Tebow's jersey was one of the top Sellers. They had called fire Tebow to be thrown in during pre-season and due to a slow start and an unpopular quarterback in Kyle Orton, they got him. A few games into the season Tim Tebow was put in the starting line up and all he did was win. After a 1 and 4 start Tebow went on a 6 game winning streak. The wins all came in dramatic and controversial fashion. In most of the games Tebow proved his critics correct by throwing awful passes but in the last few ticks of the fourth quarter Tebow and the broncos find the will to pull out the win. In Miami the Broncos were down with barely 4 minutes left by15 points and still won the game. They rolled through in a fashion that almost looked like a miracle run, even winning their first playoff game since 2005 against the Pittsburgh Steelers. With no more momentum going his way the only guarantee Tim Tebow got from Broncos vice president John Elway was that, he would go into training camp as the starter and that the Broncos wanted to bring in a new quarterback to compete for the job. What nobody saw coming was that the quarterback Elway would bring in would be the 4 time MVP and one time superbowl winning quarterback Peyton Manning. There's no competition between Peyton and most quarterbacks in the league let alone Tim Tebow, so with Tim not even being a franchise quarterback it was only a matter of time before the trade rumors would start. The trade destination came quickly despite critics claiming his career being over. Just about every team needs a quality back up and Tebow would be that, being a starter is a different blog. The Packers, Rams, Jets, and, Jags all where in on the Tebow hunt but the Jets won out and then backed out. When the Jets backed out the Jags quickly jumped in. The Broncos wanted 5 million dollars paid to Tebow back from which ever team that would acquire him, the Jets didn't want to pay the five and backed off until they noticed the Jags management attempt to bring Tebow to his hometown Jacksonville. It was reported that Tebow could choose out of the two teams and that he went with the Jets. Personally I do think he seen the instability in the Jags organization and I do think the Jags want to move to Los Angeles and Tebow wants no part of L.A. But if LA is Sodom then New York has to be Gomorrah. Nonetheless Tebow went with the New York Jets. Now a Jet, Tim will walk into what Ladanian Tomlinson called the worst locker room he'd been in and Tim will play for one of the loudest, toughest, in your face type coaches in Rex Ryan. To add to the show Tebow will back up franchise quarterback Mark Sanchez. It will only take one bad game from Sanchez before they all start calling for Tebow and Rex Ryan is maverick enough to throw him in. If Tebowmania takes off again, I'm pretty sure the Sanchize will have to find a new home giving way from the new Broadway Tebow.

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