Throw that T-Bone on a Big Apple!

Sometimes you just don’t like someone’s personality.  You try to be forgiving of course.  You try forebearance and sometimes you are even willing to let things slide.  However, when someone becomes “offensive” in your eyes, it becomes increasingly more difficult to let things go by – without making some inappropriate comment.  So, it was with Tim Tebow.  We never liked Urban Meyer the coach of University of Miami.  We never like Tim Tebow and his very unorthodox quarterback play.  All in all, when Tebow went to the Denver Broncos…..that offensiveness grew in our eyes.  It did not deminish in any respect.  We kept pulling for the other guys every time the Broncos played with Tebow at the helm.  When Tom Brady torn up the field and collapsed the “Tebow Myth” during the play-offs ….there was the greatest feeling of redemption.  Thank Goodness, the panderer to God had been put in his place.  You can’t use God to win football games, can you?  All those players that point up in the air after scoring a touchdown or throwing a perfect pass….are blaming the wrong guy.  It was probably their high school coach, or their dad or their uncle or a nice guy neighbor that thought the kid had talent.  God has better things to do than watch over Professional Football Players – or at least we think that is the case!

So, when last season ended, the dreaded thought of another year of Bronco-Tebowmania was turning our stomach.  While all this was going on, some dirty laundry about “hit squad bonuses” was revealing itself.  Sean Peyton and several coaches of the New Orlean Saints were singled out and given some of the most damaging penalties in NFL history.  Peyton has been given a year off – without pay.  One coach that went to the Rams has been barred from the league until further notice.  The owners of the New Orleans Saints were find a cool half million dollars.  Congratulations to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for his gusto in apply some serious penalities for bad behavior.  Of course, the reason for the big fines and penalties is that most of the league had been doing the same thing for years and years and years.  You could name 50 guys right off hand that do the same thing in college football.  The coaches that apply this type of structure to their programs should be banned for life.  We can only hope that the NCAA will undercover the same issues and apply the same penalties for college football.

Meanwhile, four time surgical patient Peyton Manning suddenly left the Indianpolis Colts!  The tearful good-by wound up netting Manning a $96 million dollar contract with guess who?  The Denver Broncos – no less!  John Elway be praised, his fasincation with Tim Tebow seemed to have wained and the bloom was off the rose.  “Good-by Timmy…..Hello Peyton!”  Within hours Tebow was thrown under the truck and sent off to the wonderful New York Jets with Coach Ryan and half-good, half-bad quarterback Mark Sanchez!  We can’t wait to see Mark Sanchez’s eyes glaze over the first time Tebow lands a touchdown and pulls down “the pose”!

Actually, this is an opportunity for Tim Tebow to make a fresh start, to see if in his mind of mind….he can actually be a “team player” that can learn how to be a NFL football player.  New York Jets fan are reknowned for stepping on anything that is squishy, anything that is not hard as nails, anything that doesn’t get the job done.  Can Tim Tebow cut his childish ways in the Big Apple?  Will three Puerto Rican girls from Queens take him out for a night on the town and can the boy get home under his own power?  Many answers will need to come for Tim Tebow.  How he reacts in New York will determine whether or not he indeed will have a future in the NFL.  Although Tebow needs to remain clean shaven at all times, needs to be engaged with the coaching staff, needs to be hanging on every word that Mark Sanchez is willing to tell him, needs to keep that clip board cleaned and polished and ready for business, needs to be supportive of every New York Jet offensive player, needs to not ever fall to one knee again as long as he lives, needs to get used to good pizza and great pistrami, needs to be grow up on the flight from Denver to New York, needs to find a great publicity agent, needs to stay in his apartment and not go out throughout the season, needs to watch a bunch of Joe Namath game films, needs to Thank God quietly – that he is still playing football in the NFL…….

Anyway, the time has come to “Throw that T-Bone on a Big Apple!”