QUARTERBACK TIM TEBOW ‘Tebowing’
By Adam Stites
Western Sun executive editor
It’s a common sight around the National Football League. An athlete scores a touchdown and goes down to a knee for a prayer or points skyward to give thanks to a higher power.
Yet according to survey conducted by Poll Position of 1,076 Americans, 43 percent of respondents said that they believed God was helping one certain player win, Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. Apparently those that were polled believe that the prayers of Tebow have led to devine intervention while the prayers of his opposition have been ignored.
Perhaps God is wearing an orange and blue jersey with a number 15 and entertaining himself at the expense of those that realize Tebow is the league’s worst passer, or perhaps the NFL is a league where the bizarre can, and does, happen on an annual basis.
If all divine intervention does is allow a team hampered by a terrible quarterback to limp into the postseason despite the inability to pass the football, then maybe it’s not all that uncommon. If narrowly winning a playoff game only to be blown out by a wide margin in the following week is brought on by God, maybe it isn’t that out of the ordinary. Maybe divine intervention happens every year, but without a figure like Tebow to draw eyes towards the phenomenon, it isn’t seen.
Or maybe, and more likely, God had nothing to do with it at all. Cinderella stories and underdogs are seen by those that watch any sport regularly, but it isn’t passed off as miraculous or divine. They are just part of sports, nothing special. Tim Tebow is no exception to the rule.
God doesn’t wear a orange and blue jersey with the number 15 on it. But I do think that He was definitely part of the success that Tebow had this past season of football. Tebow didn’t make it all the way to the Super Bowl, but that wasn’t his main goal. In whatever he did he wanted to glorify the Father who gave him the chance and ability to play football. God does have divine intervention, He just isn’t as restricted in ideas as we are, He has a bigger plan that we aren’t able to see. Obviously, the Broncos going to the Super Bowl wasn’t part of His plan. I commend Tebow on his open faith and love towards the Lord and playing for the glory of Him who gave him the opportunity.