When a simple Google search finds articles such as: “How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Tim Tebow,” “God and Satan play Xbox while Tim Tebow rises from the dead” and “Pittsburgh mayor loses bet, must ‘Tebow,'” you know an epidemic has begun.
When I started watching NFL football this year, I never expected that it would be any different from any other season. Sure, a team that did particularly poorly last year will have a good start, or another will have a fall from grace, but little did I know, this year would mark the first season where a one-man football team played in the AFC-West. can we use more irony here, because i’m pretty sure the broncos have a 53-man roster.
Quarterback Tim Tebow seems to be anything but his job description. Off the top of my head I can think of numerous roles he fills: running back – arguably the best in the league (not even close, please) – Christ-figure, teen heartthrob and a few various other roles that have people of all ages blindly obsessed.
When every Sunday Facebook, Twitter and other social media blow up with posts about Tebow, you would think that Jesus had finally risen from the dead.
How could you not, really, when every Sunday in the fourth quarter, God puts his had firmly on Tebow’s back and says “Son, I will guide you to victory,” which he does, every week with the exception of this last game. At this point, with tebow-time, tebow-nation, tebowing and the second coming all as accepted terms, it is obvious this has gone too far.
On Dec. 12 2011, Global Language Monitor officially declared “tebowing” as an acknowledged word in the English language. The idea that the English language would be altered for this wonder-boy quarterback is absurd.
You have to hand it to him, though, he never deviates from the play book, doesn’t pass the ball. He consistently runs the touchdown in and makes sure not to allow any of the other Denver Broncos to participate fully in the game.
Tebow has racked up 1,729 passing yards this season and 660 rushing yards so far. For a guy whose job is to pass the ball to the many other capable players on the team, those are skewed numbers.
Tebow is one of 53 players on the Denver Broncos team, and even though he seems to consistently play almost everyone else’s positions, he still is only one guy and does not deserve all of the credit and hype he is given for the Broncos wins, even if he is guided by the hand of God.
Tebow is viewed as the wonder-boy, the savior of the Denver Broncos. He is even referred to as the second coming of John Elway. Being realistic, Tebow is not one of the better quarterbacks in the league, and he is a long way from living up to Elway’s legacy.
Comparatively, Elway would typically average more than 3,000 passing yards and about 200 rushing yards per season.
With the turn around in the Broncos season this year, every football fan in America caught a little bit of Tebow-fever, but the reality of the situation is that he is not a wonder boy, he is not the second coming of Christ, but moreover he is an over-hyped player, taking all of the glory for an entire football team.
I hope they come out with a vaccine soon.
