Tebowmania runs its course

Tim Tebow’s unfathomable season ends, but he’s not going away anytime soon.

So this is how Tim Tebow’s legendary season came to a close – Bill Belichick using his prototypical Jedi mind tricks to thwart everything Tebow did well against the Pittsburgh Steelers’ top-ranked pass defense, with his own historically horrid 31st-ranked defense. The result: a 45-10 beatdown, which the Patriots controlled from the get-go.

Tebow’s season is over, but does that mean “Tebowmania” will fade to black? I don’t think so.

Tebow’s season is one that will resonate for years to come. Every day for the last 10 weeks, I continuously heard ESPN’s Skip Bayless in my ear saying, “Unleash! He just wins games!”

Tim Tebow, by the largest margin possible, was the most highly criticized young quarterback to ever play the position.

People marvel at how Tebow could somehow play so bad for three quarters, and then out of the blue pull a complete 180 with one improbable victory after another. Maybe it’s time for all of us to wake up from this dream, but what a dream it was.

After an early loss to the Oakland Raiders, fans became restless. The Broncos’ dreadful 1-4 beginning to the season prompted the team’s head of football operations and Hall of Fame QB John Elway to demand that head coach John Fox throw Tebow into the fire.

Tebow led the Broncos back from a 15-0 deficit with less than four minutes to play at Miami in his first game. After coming unraveled against a vicious Detroit Lion defense, Tebow won six straight games, four on the road.

Tebow’s final hurrah? Three-hundred-and-sixteen yards passing against the NFL’s number-one ranked pass defense in the first round of the NFL playoffs. So what does it all mean?

Tim Tebow’s not going anywhere. Tebow’s magic wasn’t aided by some divine intervention. Tebow himself always expresses asking for strength from God to honor him, but not to win football games. You can like his forwardness with his religion, or you can hate it. But don’t be stubborn and say he’s pushing it. We live in a world where religion has begun to take the back burner to work and other life activities. Tebow plays to honor God, but at least he’s not “making it rain” in a strip club like so many other professional athletes are.

His religion along with his sporadic play on the field make Tebow the most polarizing athlete to ever brace American sports. For many people, “Tebowmania” was already blurry enough to begin with, but now it’s finally over. Leaving many saying, so now what do we watch?

Posted by Chad Patterson on Jan 19 2012. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.