GOAT.
GUTS.
GLORY.
That's how it breaks down this morning, doesn't it? I mean sure, you could make a case for Ray Lewis' constant rantings of, "God is great!" But when you think about real Glory as in, "Glory to the highest..." there's only one football player that truly comes to mind.
Has the value of Tim Tebow's playoff win with the Broncos last year risen this morning like Christ on Easter Sunday? Hard to say but the Twitterverse is blazing with how badly Manning choked (he wasn't the only one on that Broncos roster, Raheem Moore...) However, Tebow's road to playoff victory reminds us all that the bottom line for Tim Tebow's NFL career is that given the reigns to an NFL franchise - he put far more in the debit column than the credit. Besides Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers & (hurts to say this) Eli Manning, who else can you really include?
If I were going into battle, I would want Ray Lewis to speak to the troops before hand. If there is another person with better inspirational speaking skills on this planet - I'd like to hear them. As much as I hate the Raven - he is the heart, soul and every other internal organ inside that team. He is the Baltimore Ravens. Next year, we should simply call them, "The Purple, Black & Silver Team from Baltimore".
If I were going into battle, I would want Ray Lewis to speak to the troops before hand. If there is another person with better inspirational speaking skills on this planet - I'd like to hear them. As much as I hate the Raven - he is the heart, soul and every other internal organ inside that team. He is the Baltimore Ravens. Next year, we should simply call them, "The Purple, Black & Silver Team from Baltimore".
Peyton Manning on the other hand is the perfect shiny Italian roadster - precise, detailed, perfection - the NFL season is a bumpy, rough, hard terrain that gets bumpier come playoff time and the Manning Roadster - at least the older model has made a stronger argument that he can't handle this type of driving than he can.
Tim Tebow on the other hand - a jalopy. The old pickup parked in the back of your house, rusty, mismatched passenger door that you picked up from the junkyard and no radio but it gets you there.
NFL pundits talk about how, "Tebow will never get you to an NFL championship!" My question is how many do? All Tebow does is win - every place he's gone. And those same "experts" that say he will never succeed were also the same people who were fitting Ryan Leaf and Ki-Jana Carter with their HOF suit jackets while waiting until the 199th pick to select a skinny kid from Michigan who split time his senior year with another "Great arm-ed" QB.
Heart, guts, glory & God - the great intangibles. Tim Tebow has them all. Peyton Manning has great mechanics.... And on the last play of the Broncos "Super Bowl or Bust" season - he didn't even have that.
Originally from Boston, Alan Aymie is a LA-based writer/performer whose work has been produced in LA, NY, DC & the HBO U. S. Comedy Festival in Aspen, CO. Although he does not possess a great vocabulary, his wife says all he does at SCRABBLE is win.
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