I'm not much on religiou thought but I have heard religiious people say that God works in strange and mysterious ways. Maybe this is one of those instances. Suffice for me to ask, as a Denver Broncos fan for fifty years, where were those miracles when the Pat's kicked our ass? Why He would bless the Pats more than Denver puzzles me but he might've been the source of "Any given Sunday" and after all that is His Day to enjoy.
Recall if you may I have said that age gives you an edge you do not have as a youth -- a knack for sorting out what's important and what's not. Fifty year ago when the Broncos rarely won I hung in there dreaming for a time when they would get enough talented players to carve out a win with some regularity. Then along came a guy named Elway and he was the messiah who lit the way to stardom for what had alwayss been a mediocre team and finally they not only went to a Super Bowl but won two of them back-to-back. After that I was happy. I never asked them to repeat that miracle. I was rewarded enough as it were. And then John Elway retired, and the Broncos fell back into the old rut and I was evidently one of a few it didn't bother because I sort of figured another messiah would eventually illuminate the stadium and the next generation of fans
would be blessed as I was.
Is Tebow that saint? Who knows. But he did, with or without God's halp, manage to pull off a play that's never been done before -- an eleven second victory in an overtime to set a record. And even then we should consider that had Thomas, another first year rookie, not snatched that pass and ran like hell into the end zone it would have been but another stat that has so often plagued Tebow; an incomplet pass.
Whatever force is behind TT's marvelous knack for winning OT games (a feat that often eludes Denver) doesn't matter. If he chooses to respect God as an affiliate, so what? That is between God and him and if he thinks it works, well hell, I think it's great. Instead of bad-mouthing Tebow or his faith in God everyone who is a Broncos fan should not question how or why it happened but should rejoice that it did happen AND Steeler fans should really put the blame on the Steeler defense not an intervention that non-believers doubt for seeing such a miraculous play pulled off. Damn! What a shot in the arm for a fifty year fan whose disappointments have been many when situations were reversed.
Trust me on this. No one yet knows or can even guess how good Tim Tebow is or how talented he will become in the furture but they could, like me, be thankful they saw him prove that anything is possible on any given Sunday, even in Denver.
Gramps
