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Monday, January 9. 2012

Ad Nauseam

It’s been a while, five days to be exact. Been busy with a special occasion for a super secret service organization. Totally out of character, I volunteered to co-host the event. Easily the best decision I made was to find the right people to help and handle specific projects, like preparing the food. Everything went well, so well the event was as boring as it should have been.

Did you see the video of the Australian woman who went bungy jumping and her bungy chord broke? She survived.

Then there’s football. Yes, the Green Bay Packers had the weekend off. The New York Giants beat the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, winning the opportunity to face the Packers in Lambeau Field. It’s the playoffs so the Giants could win. Sunday’s game was really no contest. The Falcons could only manage to score two points — a safety.

The New Orleans Saints, winners of Super Bowl XLIV (that’s 44 in American) beat the Detroit Lions and travel to San Francisco to meet the 49er’s. That’s going to be a good game, unlike the Giants-Falcons game. Of course, if you’re a Giants fan it was a great game.

Also on Saturday the Houston Texans beat the Cincinnati Bengals, very convincingly. The Houston Texans, newest team in the league, are pretty much in control of their destiny. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the made it into the title game. They have to get passed the Baltimore Ravens, but if you’re a bettin’ kind of person, I’d bet they beat Baltimore.

Remarkably, Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos are really beating the Pittsburgh Steelers — at least in the first half. In the second half the Steelers made such a comeback they tied the game, sending it to over time. On the first play of over time Tim Tebow threw a game-winning 80-yard touchdown pass to DeMaryius Thomas that had the Denver fans screaming and left the Steelers shocked. Stunned.

In about ten seconds the Denver Broncos, led by Tim Tebow, sent the Steelers home to Pittsburgh, Penn. Tim Tebow, easily the most controversial quarterback in pro football this season. Remember when Tony Romo was the talk of blogs and message boards because he was banging famous singers and actresses? Who wouldn’t want to be between the legs of Jessica Simpson?

And let’s not forget Matt Leinart. He was a USC QB who won two national championships and the Heisman Trophy. Besides not playing up to the potential his former team, the Arizona Cardinals, expected, he was a party animal and was caught, on film, sharing a hot tub with two — no, four — young beauties. For some reason that was “bad.” Same with Tom Brady and his bachelor ways.

That didn’t seem like a problem in these quarters, hell, were I a young, good-looking, single, football player, I’d be doing them two at a time as well. The problem with Leinart was that “they” didn’t think he was serious enough about winning. With Brady it wasn’t much of a problem because the New England Patriots were winning Super Bowls.

It’s hard to imagine Leinart wasn’t serious about winning, considering his history with USC. This is one of the things about America that makes me shake my head in wonderment. Ball players — and politicians — aren’t allowed to enjoy life while they are working. You practice till you drop, study your playbook and then go to a party and jump in a hot tub with two young coeds. No problem.

We see it in politics as well. When the president was going on vacation with his family in August his critics, most of whom were on vacation with their families, berated him for leaving town while Congress was arguing about the debt ceiling. Then there was the Newt Gingrich controversy. He was criticized for having a half million-dollar line of credit at Tiffany’s. If he and his current wife can afford it, who cares? It was a nonsensical criticism.

Going on a Med cruise a week after declaring his candidacy for president seemed foolish though and left people wondering if he was truly serious about running for president. His staff apparently didn’t think so because they all quit.

Back to controversial NFL quarterbacks. With Leinart, Brady, Ben Rothlisberger and others, the controversy was over their licentious lifestyles. With Tim Tebow, the controversy flips to the other end of the spectrum. Now the talk is about Tebow and his religious fervor. The questions I ask are: Why bash Tim Tebow and why now?

Long before Tebow put on professional tights, NFL players have been kneeling and praying before, during and after football games. If you have a team in your locality you see the news about their off field exploits with various churches and religious groups as well. It’s nauseating.

With Tim Tebow it’s a problem and why is a mystery to me. I don’t agree with his religious beliefs, not in the least, but it isn’t new in the National Football League. I’ve been nauseated many times seeing players getting into their prayer circles after games. If other players are able to nauseate the rest of us with their religious beliefs, than Tim Tebow ought to be able to do so as well. My ad nauseam is equal opportunity.

Regardless of his religious bent, Tim Tebow, unlike Matt Leinart, has been busy proving his critics wrong all season. Granted, his team’s season record is no better than two other teams in the same division (Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers) and is only .500, but his team is in the playoffs for yet another round, beating a Pittsburgh team everyone paid to comment on it said would put the Broncos out of the playoffs.

It’s nice to see the sports pundits proven wrong, especially by a guy so many people said wasn’t ready for the NFL. But how much farther will the Broncos go? Their next game is in Foxboro, MA against the New England Patriots. More than likely the Tebow trains stops there. They could win, but it’s highly unlikely.

Tim Tebow has proven he belongs in the NFL and, by most accounts, he’s proven to be a starting quarterback. He has the ambition, will and dedication to win. That, as much as anything else his team has done, has put the Broncos in the divisional round of the playoffs. So I congratulate Tebow and the Denver Broncos. They defied the skeptics and haters and won. May they go far enough to get beaten by the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.

And if Tebow and his teammates wish to get in one of those prayer circles after the game, go ahead. I’ll be switching over to the HBO before then anyway. But what would really make this season memorable for Tim Tebow and the Broncos: having his picture taken in a hot tub with two young, nude hotties. Now that would spice up the playoffs!

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