Hailing from Denver, I bleed orange and blue for my Broncos. The past few seasons have been rough for the Mile High City, and this season started off looking like another difficult one. Then, the Broncos played the Miami Dolphins, a game which would become the first of now a series of inexplicable comeback victories led by Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow is not your typical professional quarterback. There are countless critics who have compiled a list as long as an ancient scroll of all of the things that Tebow cannot do as a quarterback. Tebow is capable of a couple of vital things however, he plays the entire game with a passion that few have ever seen; he inspires his teammates to play harder - even seasoned veterans such as Champ Bailey and Brian Dawkins; and with him as the starter, everybody on that team believes that they WILL win. Football is a team sport and that is what I think a lot of people are missing in all of this. People think that games are won solely by people like Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, and Ray Lewis all alone. They are all terrific players, but take the other 10 guys that are out on the field and none of those men would be capable of anything.
Here are a couple of motifs that come to mind when I present a comparison for Tim Tebow.
The first: Moses. Moses was illiterate and could not speak well. God chose Moses to confront Pharoah and lead the Hebrews out of Egypt. Imagine all of the things that critics came up with in regards to what Moses was incapable of. And yet, he was successful in leading the Hebrews out of Egypt on their way to the Promised Land.
The second: Men need other men to become the best they can be. I, along with Campus Ministry and the aid of another fellow student, Frank Kane, are currently forming a men's retreat for the spring. One of the topics is male-to-male relationships. In general, men relate to sports very well so while I've been hearing all of this negative talk about all of the things that Tim Tebow cannot do, I think of all of the things that I cannot do. But then I realize everything that I am capable of with the help of the men around me. Imagine what we would all do if we worked together with a common vision and did everything that needed to be done in order to achieve our aspirations together. Do you know what would happen? Miracles. Ordinary people doing ordinary things together can produce extraordinary results that don't seem humanly possible. Miracles.
