Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Tim Tebow Doesn't Care About Stats


Win isn't a word in Tim Tebow's vocabulary. He's a competitor, but the final score isn't what matters most to him at the end of a football game, he's just grateful for where he is and for the lives he is impacting. That is the whole point of "Tebowing."

At the start of the fourth quarter of the Denver Broncos game against the Chicago Bears on Sunday his thoughts weren't focused on how pretty the 7-1 record will look next to his name on ESPN.com. And he certainly didn't care that he surpassed 200 passing yards for the second game in a row. Good ol' Timothy Richard Tebow just wanted to play his best and see his teammates rise to the challenge alongside him, not behind him like the typical NFL quarterback.

“I don’t think it’s Tebow Time,” he told Yahoo Sports. “I think it’s the Broncos Time.”

For Tebow it is a team effort, win or lose. He just wants to be in the game, thanking the Lord for every opportunity he's been given.

He has been on every football fan's mind lately. Skip Bayless tweets about him every two minutes and former and current NFL players always have something to say about the two-time Heisman Trophy winner. Still, the attention hasn't changed the foundation he stands on, teamwork.

Tebow wants people to know that it is the Denver Broncos that have led the Denver Broncos to six consecutive wins and sole possession of first place. Tebow wants people to know it was place kicker Matt Prater's 59-yard field goal late in the fourth quarter that tied Sunday's game and capped off a comeback from a 10-point deficit. Tebow wants people to know it was Prater's 51-yard field goal in overtime that won the game.

The next time you hear someone around you say that Tebow isn't any good you should ask them why. You can direct them to the stats, because numbers don't lie. But you should also point them toward the intangibles Tebow posses each time he takes the field.

Humility. Courage. Dedication. Passion. Those are just a few attributes Tebow exemplifies on and off the football field — not a lot of professional athletes match him there.

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