NFL Playoff Thread

I'm amazed that defenses playing against Tebow have not worn eye black with # 666

 

RT @darrenrovell: 56.2% of the entire Pittsburgh market was watching Broncos-Steelers. Other cities: 49% of Denver, 35.7% of Baltimore, 35.4% of Norfolk.

 

If the East Coast gets socked in by a blizzard, that Saturday night game could get near Super Bowl ratings.

Bob Kraft is working on it.

 

Actually, the long-range forecast for Saturday night up here is dry and in the low30s-upper 20s. Nice for January, really.

 

He hasn't played Baltimore yet.

 

When he threw the second touchdown pass, he was going crazy on the sidelines, screaming. They kept the camera on him the whole time. My wife quipped, "At least we know he won't drop an f-bomb."

I actually think that's kind of interesting - that people follow him even though he's a huge Pollyanna who says, "gosh darn." His tirade was every bit as intense as anyone else's. There was a story a few weeks ago - I think Josh McCown was the guy quoted - where the stereotype of overtly Christian players as passive was addressed. McCown said they are even more passionate on the field of play.

I wonder why Tebow drives ratings the way he does. What is the national fascination? Part of it is certainly his Christian following. Part of it is that he has been famous since his sophomore year of college. Part of it, I truly believe, is that the Broncos offense, which stalls at times, at least is different than anything else being run in the NFL. It's almost like nostalgia is driving some of the fascination. Nostalgia for back when the NFL was more about gun slinging and play-making than coaches playing chess with each other.

 

Forecast update: In the 20s "Chance of snow showers."

 

Yeah, that's Bob Kraft getting it done. By Thursday it's going to be Storm of the Century a-comin'.

 

Once again all the orgasmic praise is going to one guy only. Thomas caught a short pass over the middle, delivered a beautiful stiff-arm and took another great angle to outrun two defenders on what was clearly a very tired defense. This was the old West Coast slant that Montana and Rice ran a zillion times to perfection, a timing pattern where the receiver does most of the work.

 

That's all of it. At least on this board, that's what we've been saying for two months. I didn't think much about him at Florida, don't care about the religion, and wasn't all that interested when he just jumped into the Kyle Orton offense. It was when John Fox sliced up the old playbook that I got on board.

Monte Poole, highly respected columnist in the Bay Area (Oakland Tribune or whatever banner he writes under now), said this morning that Tebow is "the most tirelessly debated American athlete since the young Muhammad Ali." As crazy as that sounded initially, I think it's right.

 

Guy averaged 50 yards a catch. Had to have been SOME positive ink.