{"id":2459,"date":"2011-08-16T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rsx28.justhost.com\/~fromlaw2\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2011-08-15T23:11:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T05:11:45","slug":"tebow-derangement-syndrome-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fromlaw2grace.com\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"Tebow Derangement Syndrome: Season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With Denver Broncos’ new head coach, John Fox, looking increasingly like\u00a0he will start mediocre Kyle Orton at quarterback when the NFL season gets underway next month, one is reminded of the special talent that is Tim Tebow.\u00a0 James A.\u00a0Smith,\u00a0Sr., Editor of The Florida Baptist Witness, has a great article up entitled “It’s not hard to root for Tim Tebow.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

While I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Smith about the ease of which football fans —\u00a0particularly Christians — can root for Tebow\u00a0(as a life-long F.S.U. Seminoles’ fan who married into a Gator family almost 20 years ago, I\u00a0can personally attest to that fact), there are a good many people who find it easy to root against Tim Tebow.\u00a0 Some of these are former NFL players — now\u00a0football analysts on television\u00a0—\u00a0who,\u00a0for whatever reason, appear to not want Tim Tebow to succeed in the National Football League.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In listening to\u00a0Brian Griese,\u00a0a former Bronco himself and now a sports commentator for a local Denver station, call the pre-season game between\u00a0Denver and Dallas last Thursday, you would have thought he was working for the\u00a0Cowboys.\u00a0\u00a0Almost every comment from Griese, a\u00a0\u00a0non-Heisman Trophy winning\u00a0Michigan quarterback who was a bust in the NFL, was negative when it came to just about anything concerning the play of Tim Tebow.\u00a0 I was almost tempted to turn it to the Dallas broadcast of the game.\u00a0 Perhaps they would have been fairer to Tebow\u00a0than Griese.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When this young man — arguably one of the best college quarterbacks of all time — finally gets his chance to shine on the professional football field, a new wave of Tebow Derangement Syndrome is sure to break out across the country.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0But, Christians — both fans and non-fans of football — will not only be immune from TDS, but should find it easy to root for such a wonderful witness for the cause of Christ.\u00a0 That is, unless he’s playing against your favorite team.\u00a0 I think even Tim Tebow would forgive you for that!<\/p>\n

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