The Odds Beater!

"I'm here now bruh!"

It's finally Tebow time in Denver! On Tuesday coach John Fox officially announced that Tim Tebow would be the starting quarterback for the Denver Bronco's. It's couldn't have come sooner for the frustrated fans of the Mile High City. They've been calling for this guy for weeks.

"Well, I think 1-4 has a lot to do with it," Fox said. "We haven't gotten it done as a football team. It's not one guy. It's not all Kyle Orton's fault. But we do have to make adjustments, we have to change and we have to do something to win football games."

Fox had seen enough by halftime Sunday when he decided to bench Orton and call on Tebow. After a sluggish start, the former Heisman trophy winner and two time national champion pulled a Kobe and put the offense on his back and came to within a last-second pass of bringing the Bronco's out of the toilet and beating San Diego.

As the Broncos disappointedly left the field, the stadium roared like the Roman Coliseum and all you heard was "Tebow! Tebow! Tebow!" It was great to see the guy completely change the momentum of the game and almost win it. Some people have what they call the "It" factor and Tebow has definitely been blessed with it.

I'm completely blown away at the amount of people that keep hating on this kid. When he was in college at the University of Florida all he did was win! He's clean as a whistle and only shows up in the news for one thing, winning ball games . He has a solid Christian foundation and the world seems to hate him. Isn't that what we want our kids to see in an athlete? We're always complaining about guys being terrible role models and how we'd like to see them make better decisions etc. Now here the guy is and people don't want him.

Well, I'm glad to see him get a shot at the big time. Why not? He's won everywhere else he's been! Tebow's arguably the most accomplished college football player of all-time. That alone should at least give him a huddle pass and 10 starts. Before you write him off see what he can do.

What two guys sat in a dark room and said that the prototypical NFL quarterback has to be 6'4" 230lbs with an excellent delivery? Why can't he play with the quirky throwing motion that he has and run all over the place. He’s a football player before he’s a quarterback. Limits are meant to be broken. Not everybody is going to fit into the same box.

They said that Doug Flutie wouldn’t make it because he was a dwarf in size compared to the typical height of an NFL quarterback. They also said that a black man could never play quarterback in this league until Doug Williams showed up, won Super Bowl XXII in 1988 and was named the MVP. I guess the same two guys told Mohandas Gandhi that his non-violent protests wouldn’t work during the Indian Independence Movement. Then Martin Luther King, Jr. used the same strategy in America during the civil rights movement and changed the world.

Those same two guys told me that I couldn’t succeed in life because I was born with one full arm. Throw in the fact I could barely read when I graduated from high school scoring 642 total points on the SAT. I can remember the councilor at the start of my freshman year telling me that I shouldn’t be in college because the entrance exam showed that I was more equipped to drive a bus. What? Me, a guy with one full arm? Are you kidding me! I need a job where I can wear tailor made suits, high end shoes and watches. Good luck with that!

While he was telling me that foolishness his brother was whispering to the kid next to me, you shouldn't be here either because you were raised by a single parent in the ghetto. Those same two guys have been trying to stop folks from succeeding for years. However, for people born with the "It" factor their tactics have proven to be ineffective.

 Tebow feels the same way right now. I know he’s saying to himself because he’s too humble of a guy to say it out loud, “I’ll show all of the haters what’s really real.” So you better believe that this kid will be ready to play when the Bronco’s show up in south Florida in two weeks because they‘ve got a bye this Sunday.

Now that he's the starter, the Mile High City should name a drink after him. Since he’s not a drinker make it a virgin daiquiri but whatever you decide to call it,  it'll be a winner!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Twitter: @jaygravesreport