The Tim Tebow Hype.....Who is responsible for it?

[JonEJet]

I'm curious if you guys think this is a tabloid media driven story, or do the fans actually fuel the hype?

[Lil Bit Special]

The media drives the story. The majority of fans jump on the bandwagon.

[flgreen]

What Lil Bit said

Just like politics, what shows we watch, clothes, music, people like what the media tells them to like. We love star power, and the media creates star power

[Gastineau Lives]

Max. He's an evil genius. He somehow impregnates Tebow's mom, waits for the invention of the internet, sets up this site and well, you know the rest.

[Maxman]

Max. He's an evil genius. He somehow impregnates Tebow's mom, waits for the invention of the internet, sets up this site and well, you know the rest.

Lol......

[Garb]

I've been saying all along that the Sport Media is THE SUCK and millions of idiots eat what they are shoving down their throats.

I thought is was GREAT that ESPN University......ooops, I mean Syracuse University, lost yesterday. Screw that ESPN farm system.

[Gastineau Lives]

Lol......

Of course, he's also the guy who gave us BocceNation and MacarenaNation...

[PatriotReign37]

The media drives the Tebowmania bus and fans are jumping on it.

It hard to not like the guy.

[shawn306]

I think it is a combination of both. You have just seen the past couple of days how the NY media has jacked this thing up. The Tebow zealots though are out of control.

I think the Denver writer (and Tebow fan) says it best.

http://www.milehighsports.com/?p=9265

SPANO’S RANT

Goodbye Tebow Mania!

By Brandon Spano

I never thought in a million years that I would be happy to say that. When it comes down to the simple fact of Tim Tebow leaving, I’m actually not happy at all to say that. But within the past few weeks, I have grown to become very angry with Tebow fans.

It all started when Von Miller sent out a tweet that read, “I would take a huge pay cut to get Mario Williams and Peyton Manning, I just want to win!!!” Most football fans would be blown away by that statement. A young pro athlete saying that money doesn’t matter as long as he won a Super Bowl is unheard of.

But instead of getting respected, patted on the back, and fan recognition, he was attacked relentlessly by Tebow Nation. He was called a backstabber, a liar, a fake, a fraud, a loser, and a phony. It was sick. From that day forward, I have turned a cold shoulder to the fan base that made up for a huge percentage of my listenership, Twitter followers and Facebook friends.

Before I get carried away, which I totally plan on doing, I must say that I am not talking about all of Tebow’s fans, but I am talking about a large percentage of them. There are the football fans that loved watching him and believe that he can make it on the football field. They are fine with me. There are the Broncos fans that supported Tebow because he was a Bronco and will now root for Peyton Manning, I am okay with them too.

The spineless losers that I am talking about are the people that didn’t watch much football until they laid eyes on Tim Tebow. They are infatuated with everything he does and swing off of his every word. These fans don’t care about anybody else but Tim Tebow. Nothing is his fault and NFL methods that have been used for decades cannot be applied to him. They have no understanding of the NFL and feel like everybody owes Tim Tebow something. I would be failing Broncos fans if I didn’t mention that these same fans are the ones that walk into each conversation with an elephant-sized sense of entitlement.

Because they never watched Broncos football or paid much attention to the NFL, they actually feel like the Broncos were nothing before Tim Tebow got here. Apparently, the storied AFL franchise with 6 Super Bowl appearances, a Hall Of Quarterback and the stadium called “Mile High” was unheard of before Timmy showed up. That’s how ignorant these people are.

By the standards of these people, replacing Tim Tebow with arguably the greatest quarterback of all time is not fair and immoral. John Elway said that Tim Tebow would be the starter going into training camp and because he has now traded him, he is an evil, rotten, scumbag.

Before we touch on the disgusting, ruthless, and thug-like behavior that John Elway has been attacked with, I have to make it clear that just because you disagree with John Elway doesn’t mean that I am putting you in this category. My belief is that if you have a football reason for your opinion, than I accept it as a sports opinion and we can then discuss it like adults.

What I am talking about is the same group that I previously mentioned. The group that once again, knows nothing about the league that has been around for nearly a century. You see, John Elway was operating the same way that he has seen for the past 20 years, but little did he know, he was playing with a different deck of cards. A deck of cards that have been manufactured by religious zealots and fans of the pop icon, not the football player.

According to these people the Denver Broncos owed Tim Tebow something. After just 15 starts, they owed Tebow a starting spot and residency for life. I put out 6 on-air audio rants in defense of Tim Tebow that can all be found online to this day. I called out local and national media, some of which I have to see on a daily basis, in defense of Tebow. The intro to my show is me pleading my case for Tebow to be the starter in the preseason! With that said, even I know that the Broncos did not owe Tebow ANYTHING!

If The Broncos didn’t owe the legendary Steve Atwater a contract before shipping him off to the Jets after a decade on the Broncos roster, than they certainly don’t owe Tebow anything. I would guess that 95% of the group that I am aiming at have no idea who Steve Atwater even is. THE Steve Atwater. The one with 173 tackles in 1990, (not a typo) the one who is responsible for “the hit heard round the world” and the guy who knocked out three players at once during the Denver Broncos triumphant first Super Bowl win. Atwater is just one of the small stories in a library full of NFL books that contain these situations.

What about the guy that is replacing Tim Tebow? The great Peyton Manning. A quarterback who really did make a team relevant. A four time MVP who owns many records and spent the past 14 years building an empire. A Super Bowl MVP that single-handedly made it possible for a new stadium to be built and then was kicked out the door after missing last season with an injury.

Didn’t the Colts owe him? Didn’t they do him wrong? Surely if Tebow was done wrong by being traded away after 15 starts, Manning’s release has to be the most unethical, immoral, dismissal of a player in NFL history!

You will never hear that from the mainstream Tim Tebow fans. As a matter of fact, some of these fans have expressed on my Facebook page and my Twitter timeline that they hope he gets injured. Yes, you read that correctly. The fans of the NFL player that holds his moral and spiritual values at the highest plateau actually behave in the exact opposite manner of what he preaches.

Colin Daniels from SouthStandsDenver.com sent the final dagger into my heart a few days ago. The fans that I had grown so close to had already disgusted me after the bashing of Demaryius Thomas and Von Miller on any social media applications that they could get their hands on. But I was about to step upon the final straw.

Colin clicked on John Elway’s twitter account and started filing tweets that Tebow fans had sent Mr. Elway in a four hour period. It was pretty easy for him to copy a hundred of them in no time. I later looked for myself and there must have been thousands of derogatory tweets to Mr. Elway. Picking which ones to use for this article was very difficult because of how nasty these profanity laced quotes really are. Here are some of the nicer ones.

• There is nothing like a mans word. You took it back, what a coward!

• You are the MOST ARROGANT SPORTS PLAYER EVER! Don’t be jealous of Tim Tebow, a

GENUINELY GOOD GUY! He will do great things! GO TEBOW!!

• You made the biggest mistake that you have ever made, you lied to all fans. I know it and so do you. Pay backs are coming soon!”

• If the Broncos trade Tebow, I hope the Broncos lose every game that Manning plays in.

• You suck for trading Tebow, you fat inglorious ****! Your team will go 0 and 16.

Those were the nice ones. These thugs are running rampant attacking anybody that they can. They honestly believe that the Broncos owe Tim Tebow. They don’t get it. They don’t want to get it. This is the NFL. It’s a big business, full of moving pieces.

Reading the overwhelmingly malicious comments that appeared on Elway’s timeline was enough. It was at that point that I had to disassociate myself from them, turn around and point the finger. That’s what I am doing now. Some of these people will look at this column as a diss to Tim Tebow. That’s how ignorant many of their minds are.

The fact is that I love Tim Tebow. I don’t just think that he is a great guy who could marry my daughter one day. I think he is a kick a$$ football player that makes for one hell of a show. I think that he provides a skill set that we haven’t seen and with a few improvements could be one of the deadliest players in all of football.

I think he has the game winning gene. I think he is great under pressure. I think he could master half of the positions on the football field and be effective at the pro level playing any of them, quarterback included.

As many of you know, I am as impressed and blown away by Tim Tebow as I am about almost any player that I have ever seen. Call me crazy, but I think he is going to win a Super Bowl one day. That’s how much I believe in the man that I have called Super Timmy for the past 12 months.

What’s funny is that I have just upset everybody who hates Tim Tebow and everybody who loves Tim Tebow in the same column. And as I think about that simple notion, I realize that the problem lies within that very formula. You have to be for everything or be against everything. Sorry, I have my own mind; thank you. I will not condone the behavior from the people that some refer to as the Tebow Taliban.

It is my opinion that this is one of the prime reasons that Tim Tebow is not a Denver Bronco anymore. The circus is just too much. I also believe that this is why John Elway got rid of Tebow a day after Manning came to town. Elway did not want these scoundrels anywhere near his precious franchise. He did not want the greatest quarterback of all time to have to deal with this nonsense and questioning.

I’m assuming that Elway himself did not want to deal with this issue either. For everybody who says that franchises don’t make moves based on the fans, I agree, but I believe that this situation is different. According to Alex Marvez of Fox Sports, Legendary GM Bill Polian, said having Tebow and Manning on the same roster would create the kind of off-field distraction that teams try to avoid because of the potential trickle-down effect on each player and the rest of the roster,

That was the exact quote that Marvez pulled from Polian in his column a few days ago. That tells me all I need to know when a guy like Polian says that about a player.

Tebow Mania has packed up and left town, and I’m glad that I don’t have to see it or hear it anymore. I wish Tim Tebow all the luck in the world and I also hope that his fan base can get a grip of reality. Maybe this will teach them a lesson? Maybe this will make the many sane ones embarrassed enough to help control this issue? Unfortunately, it probably won’t.

[JiFtheOracle]

The media drives the Tebowmania bus and fans are jumping on it.

It hard to not like the guy.

This. He's a role model and a winner and wears his religion on his sleeve. The media are starved pathetic creatures and eat this sh*t up. They run with anything they can and he's a great story.

The funny thing is, its the people that beat him down the most that create the hysteria....the Merril Hoge's of the world. When you beat a player down and scrutinize every little action and all the dude does is win and prove you wrong yet you continue you the onslaught...you're just stoking the fire. Hoge hates the kid but he's a major contributor to his popularity.

[Larz]

who started tebowmania ? well after all, it was you and me

we all are responsible

we read the papers, watch espn and listen to FAN and post here

[slowmoe57]

The same people who brought you "LINSANITY".

[JonEJet]

The media drives the Tebowmania bus and fans are jumping on it.

It hard to not like the guy.

I think you may be right here....There is so many "experts" telling us Tim Tebow can't play QB, you want him to succeed just to shut the likes of Merrill Hoge up

[Garb]

This. He's a role model and a winner and wears his religion on his sleeve. The media are starved pathetic creatures and eat this sh*t up. They run with anything they can and he's a great story.

The funny thing is, its the people that beat him down the most that create the hysteria....the Merril Hoge's of the world. When you beat a player down and scrutinize every little action and all the dude does is win and prove you wrong yet you continue you the onslaught...you're just stoking the fire. Hoge hates the kid but he's a major contributor to his popularity.

The "he's a winner" mantra is confusing to me. Using the same criteria, Mark Sanchez is a winner too.

[Larz]

I think you may be right here....There is so many "experts" telling us Tim Tebow can't play QB, you want him to succeed just to shut the likes of Merrill Hoge up

my dad, a life long giants fan, said he hopes tebow does great to shut up fatcessa. my god, is it august yet ?

[Larz]

The "he's a winner" mantra is confusing to me. Using the same criteria, Mark Sanchez is a winner too.

but with tim you can see gods hand at work

[flgreen]

This. He's a role model and a winner and wears his religion on his sleeve. The media are starved pathetic creatures and eat this sh*t up. They run with anything they can and he's a great story.

The funny thing is, its the people that beat him down the most that create the hysteria....the Merril Hoge's of the world. When you beat a player down and scrutinize every little action and all the dude does is win and prove you wrong yet you continue you the onslaught...you're just stoking the fire. Hoge hates the kid but he's a major contributor to his popularity.

Bingo

I'm a Canes fan and have to admit he's a nice kid. He is not an NFL QB (sorry JiF) but he's an excellent football player, who can help the Jets is used correctly.

Aside from his now being on the Jets, even when he was on Denver I found myself rooting for him cause it seemed like certain media types were trying to destroy him for non football reasons.

He is what he is. A very bad starting QB, a very valuable component to a football team, a young man with a lot of faith, and a nice person.

[JiFtheOracle]

The "he's a winner" mantra is confusing to me. Using the same criteria, Mark Sanchez is a winner too.

Definitely. And that is often the only defense of Mark. I see it used here all the time and I've heard the media say it as well. The thought that Mark is excluded from that conversation is strange. Its been pretty much the mantra for all his defenders around here. 4-2 playoff record, no losing seasons, etc etc etc.

Bingo

I'm a Canes fan and have to admit he's a nice kid. He is not an NFL QB (sorry JiF) but he's an excellent football player, who can help the Jets is used correctly.

Aside from his now being on the Jets, even when he was on Denver I found myself rooting for him cause it seemed like certain media types were trying to destroy him for non football reasons.

He is what he is. A very bad starting QB, a very valuable component to a football team, a young man with a lot of faith, and a nice person.

Contrary to popular belief...I've pretty much said the bold since the day he was being considered in the draft. Not a traditional QB, may never be...but I'd never bet against the kid. Ever. He's a Football player first and foremost and he's a competitor like you've never seen before. I always said, I wouldnt be surprised if he made at as a QB in the NFL just knowing how bad he wants it, but he's definitely going to have a lot of work.

I really think this is the best fit for him. We're running the wrinkle regardless, why not get the guy who does it best when all it cost you was a measly 4th rounder?

[CTM]

The "he's a winner" mantra is confusing to me. Using the same criteria, Mark Sanchez is a winner too.

No.. Tebow has proven 2 years running the team performs better with him then his backup, Sanchez has no such track record and it's clear to everyone but a few extremists posters here that mark us basicalky dragged along like an anxhor by the team

[Lil Bit Special]

I think it is a combination of both. You have just seen the past couple of days how the NY media has jacked this thing up. The Tebow zealots though are out of control.

I think the Denver writer (and Tebow fan) says it best.

http://www.milehighsports.com/?p=9265

SPANO’S RANT

Goodbye Tebow Mania!

By Brandon Spano

I never thought in a million years that I would be happy to say that. When it comes down to the simple fact of Tim Tebow leaving, I’m actually not happy at all to say that. But within the past few weeks, I have grown to become very angry with Tebow fans.

It all started when Von Miller sent out a tweet that read, “I would take a huge pay cut to get Mario Williams and Peyton Manning, I just want to win!!!” Most football fans would be blown away by that statement. A young pro athlete saying that money doesn’t matter as long as he won a Super Bowl is unheard of.

But instead of getting respected, patted on the back, and fan recognition, he was attacked relentlessly by Tebow Nation. He was called a backstabber, a liar, a fake, a fraud, a loser, and a phony. It was sick. From that day forward, I have turned a cold shoulder to the fan base that made up for a huge percentage of my listenership, Twitter followers and Facebook friends.

Before I get carried away, which I totally plan on doing, I must say that I am not talking about all of Tebow’s fans, but I am talking about a large percentage of them. There are the football fans that loved watching him and believe that he can make it on the football field. They are fine with me. There are the Broncos fans that supported Tebow because he was a Bronco and will now root for Peyton Manning, I am okay with them too.

The spineless losers that I am talking about are the people that didn’t watch much football until they laid eyes on Tim Tebow. They are infatuated with everything he does and swing off of his every word. These fans don’t care about anybody else but Tim Tebow. Nothing is his fault and NFL methods that have been used for decades cannot be applied to him. They have no understanding of the NFL and feel like everybody owes Tim Tebow something. I would be failing Broncos fans if I didn’t mention that these same fans are the ones that walk into each conversation with an elephant-sized sense of entitlement.

Because they never watched Broncos football or paid much attention to the NFL, they actually feel like the Broncos were nothing before Tim Tebow got here. Apparently, the storied AFL franchise with 6 Super Bowl appearances, a Hall Of Quarterback and the stadium called “Mile High” was unheard of before Timmy showed up. That’s how ignorant these people are.

By the standards of these people, replacing Tim Tebow with arguably the greatest quarterback of all time is not fair and immoral. John Elway said that Tim Tebow would be the starter going into training camp and because he has now traded him, he is an evil, rotten, scumbag.

Before we touch on the disgusting, ruthless, and thug-like behavior that John Elway has been attacked with, I have to make it clear that just because you disagree with John Elway doesn’t mean that I am putting you in this category. My belief is that if you have a football reason for your opinion, than I accept it as a sports opinion and we can then discuss it like adults.

What I am talking about is the same group that I previously mentioned. The group that once again, knows nothing about the league that has been around for nearly a century. You see, John Elway was operating the same way that he has seen for the past 20 years, but little did he know, he was playing with a different deck of cards. A deck of cards that have been manufactured by religious zealots and fans of the pop icon, not the football player.

According to these people the Denver Broncos owed Tim Tebow something. After just 15 starts, they owed Tebow a starting spot and residency for life. I put out 6 on-air audio rants in defense of Tim Tebow that can all be found online to this day. I called out local and national media, some of which I have to see on a daily basis, in defense of Tebow. The intro to my show is me pleading my case for Tebow to be the starter in the preseason! With that said, even I know that the Broncos did not owe Tebow ANYTHING!

If The Broncos didn’t owe the legendary Steve Atwater a contract before shipping him off to the Jets after a decade on the Broncos roster, than they certainly don’t owe Tebow anything. I would guess that 95% of the group that I am aiming at have no idea who Steve Atwater even is. THE Steve Atwater. The one with 173 tackles in 1990, (not a typo) the one who is responsible for “the hit heard round the world” and the guy who knocked out three players at once during the Denver Broncos triumphant first Super Bowl win. Atwater is just one of the small stories in a library full of NFL books that contain these situations.

What about the guy that is replacing Tim Tebow? The great Peyton Manning. A quarterback who really did make a team relevant. A four time MVP who owns many records and spent the past 14 years building an empire. A Super Bowl MVP that single-handedly made it possible for a new stadium to be built and then was kicked out the door after missing last season with an injury.

Didn’t the Colts owe him? Didn’t they do him wrong? Surely if Tebow was done wrong by being traded away after 15 starts, Manning’s release has to be the most unethical, immoral, dismissal of a player in NFL history!

You will never hear that from the mainstream Tim Tebow fans. As a matter of fact, some of these fans have expressed on my Facebook page and my Twitter timeline that they hope he gets injured. Yes, you read that correctly. The fans of the NFL player that holds his moral and spiritual values at the highest plateau actually behave in the exact opposite manner of what he preaches.

Colin Daniels from SouthStandsDenver.com sent the final dagger into my heart a few days ago. The fans that I had grown so close to had already disgusted me after the bashing of Demaryius Thomas and Von Miller on any social media applications that they could get their hands on. But I was about to step upon the final straw.

Colin clicked on John Elway’s twitter account and started filing tweets that Tebow fans had sent Mr. Elway in a four hour period. It was pretty easy for him to copy a hundred of them in no time. I later looked for myself and there must have been thousands of derogatory tweets to Mr. Elway. Picking which ones to use for this article was very difficult because of how nasty these profanity laced quotes really are. Here are some of the nicer ones.

• There is nothing like a mans word. You took it back, what a coward!

• You are the MOST ARROGANT SPORTS PLAYER EVER! Don’t be jealous of Tim Tebow, a

GENUINELY GOOD GUY! He will do great things! GO TEBOW!!

• You made the biggest mistake that you have ever made, you lied to all fans. I know it and so do you. Pay backs are coming soon!”

• If the Broncos trade Tebow, I hope the Broncos lose every game that Manning plays in.

• You suck for trading Tebow, you fat inglorious ****! Your team will go 0 and 16.

Those were the nice ones. These thugs are running rampant attacking anybody that they can. They honestly believe that the Broncos owe Tim Tebow. They don’t get it. They don’t want to get it. This is the NFL. It’s a big business, full of moving pieces.

Reading the overwhelmingly malicious comments that appeared on Elway’s timeline was enough. It was at that point that I had to disassociate myself from them, turn around and point the finger. That’s what I am doing now. Some of these people will look at this column as a diss to Tim Tebow. That’s how ignorant many of their minds are.

The fact is that I love Tim Tebow. I don’t just think that he is a great guy who could marry my daughter one day. I think he is a kick a$$ football player that makes for one hell of a show. I think that he provides a skill set that we haven’t seen and with a few improvements could be one of the deadliest players in all of football.

I think he has the game winning gene. I think he is great under pressure. I think he could master half of the positions on the football field and be effective at the pro level playing any of them, quarterback included.

As many of you know, I am as impressed and blown away by Tim Tebow as I am about almost any player that I have ever seen. Call me crazy, but I think he is going to win a Super Bowl one day. That’s how much I believe in the man that I have called Super Timmy for the past 12 months.

What’s funny is that I have just upset everybody who hates Tim Tebow and everybody who loves Tim Tebow in the same column. And as I think about that simple notion, I realize that the problem lies within that very formula. You have to be for everything or be against everything. Sorry, I have my own mind; thank you. I will not condone the behavior from the people that some refer to as the Tebow Taliban.

It is my opinion that this is one of the prime reasons that Tim Tebow is not a Denver Bronco anymore. The circus is just too much. I also believe that this is why John Elway got rid of Tebow a day after Manning came to town. Elway did not want these scoundrels anywhere near his precious franchise. He did not want the greatest quarterback of all time to have to deal with this nonsense and questioning.

I’m assuming that Elway himself did not want to deal with this issue either. For everybody who says that franchises don’t make moves based on the fans, I agree, but I believe that this situation is different. According to Alex Marvez of Fox Sports, Legendary GM Bill Polian, said having Tebow and Manning on the same roster would create the kind of off-field distraction that teams try to avoid because of the potential trickle-down effect on each player and the rest of the roster,

That was the exact quote that Marvez pulled from Polian in his column a few days ago. That tells me all I need to know when a guy like Polian says that about a player.

Tebow Mania has packed up and left town, and I’m glad that I don’t have to see it or hear it anymore. I wish Tim Tebow all the luck in the world and I also hope that his fan base can get a grip of reality. Maybe this will teach them a lesson? Maybe this will make the many sane ones embarrassed enough to help control this issue? Unfortunately, it probably won’t.

All I took from this is Atwater is no longer a banned word on JN.

[Lil Bit Special]

This. He's a role model and a winner and wears his religion on his sleeve. The media are starved pathetic creatures and eat this sh*t up. They run with anything they can and he's a great story.

The funny thing is, its the people that beat him down the most that create the hysteria....the Merril Hoge's of the world. When you beat a player down and scrutinize every little action and all the dude does is win and prove you wrong yet you continue you the onslaught...you're just stoking the fire. Hoge hates the kid but he's a major contributor to his popularity.

I dont get why people want to beat him down. Seems silly to me. Teblow is a great guy who works hard and says the right things. Im impressed with the way he has handled his college and now his pro career. It would be nice if people judged him the way they judge everyone else, instead the hatred for no good reason.

I hope he does well with the Jets. I hope he wins lots of games. I hope Im wrong about his ability to bring this team to the next level (making the playoffs isnt good enough).

[PatriotReign37]

I think you may be right here....There is so many "experts" telling us Tim Tebow can't play QB, you want him to succeed just to shut the likes of Merrill Hoge up

I dont know how much more of Sanchez I can take.

[JiFtheOracle]

I dont get why people want to beat him down. Seems silly to me. Teblow is a great guy who works hard and says the right things. Im impressed with the way he has handled his college and now his pro career. It would be nice if people judged him the way they judge everyone else, instead the hatred for no good reason.

I hope he does well with the Jets. I hope he wins lots of games. I hope Im wrong about his ability to bring this team to the next level (making the playoffs isnt good enough).

Agreed. Its a strange phenomenon. It really is. In my life time, I've never seen a sports figure treated like him. When was the last time every play Sam Bradford has made in the NFL (the first overall pick) been broke down and sh*tted on because he couldnt improve the Rams?

In regards to bringing us to the next level - I think its a lofty and unreasonable expectation for you to think Tebow needs to be the reason why we take it to the next level. He's not an every down player. He's a luxury to run a wrinkle in the game plan for a 4th round pick. Thats not typically the guy you hang your hat on to take the team to the next level. The guy we take at 16th overall would have more impact from that perspective.

[bitonti]

He's not an every down player. He's a luxury to run a wrinkle in the game plan for a 4th round pick. Thats not typically the guy you hang your hat on to take the team to the next level. The guy we take at 16th overall would have more impact from that perspective.

hence why Tebow was only worth a 4th rd pick on the open market.