I have no idea why this guy is so polarizing. I literally have no strong feelings on him one way or another.

Relevant!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y59...y/TebowBen.jpg

I'd attach it as an image, but I don't know how.

tebow is one of the hardest working football players....ever. they gives 1010 percent every play and take responsibility for his messups. ...which players rarely do these days

Way I hear it, a lot of it has to do with religion. That, and possibly that they don't believe that he can possibly be as squeaky clean as he appears to be.

He also gives a lot of credit to his team, too. Says the Broncos make him look better than he is and refers to what most of us call 'Tebow Time' as 'Bronco Time'.

@VGA - I don't thin anyone on here (at the time you posted) was really hating that much. People can laugh at themselves and their situations and, heck, making it onto SNL? Not all bad. The skit has its' funny moments and this comes from a life long Broncos fan and a backer of Tebow.

@Len - That's a bit of a myth...he's never said that. Tebow has specifically his prayers are things like, "Look out for everyone's health. Help us to be to the best of our abilities / live up to the talents given to us. etc." He's actually shown disdain for the idea of praying to "win a game". Not trying to turn this into a religious discussion but, rather, point out that this is one of those Myths That Won't Die Which Distort from the Topic.

Um, thats all players do these days, who doesn't work hard, and how is that even measured? Its so arbitrary and flirting with hyperbole. I mean its great he's hard working and determined, but literally everyone who makes it to that level, and then excell has to have an insane amount of work ethic and willpower (with a few exceptions for freaks of nature ala Shaq and a number of baseball players). For example there's no way that you can tell me that Patrick Willis wants "it" any less than Tebow and every interview I see of him he's praising God and his team.

From what I've seen he doesn't do anything different then most other players, everyone gives credit to their team before themselves (even diva QBs like Brady seem to genuinely believe it when they say it) and he isn't the first guy to really bring the Jesus (See Kurt Warner, Jim Harbaugh and a multitude of other players), yet there's a lot of vitriol thrown out towards his direction, and on the flip side there's a lot of adulation.

Link doesn't work, anyone have an updated one?

Meh wasn't that great...

This was way better:

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-li...n-tnt/1377381/

The guys who do Ernie and Charles are pretty on point...

Not commenting, if only because it would be political, and we have a forum for that.

Believe that if you want, but when a guy is down on one knee praying during an important field goal I am not buying for a second that his prayer is about the health of the ref. Besides how many times does he need to make that prayer. I don't know about the habits of omnipresent super-beings but a solid one of those once maybe twice a game should probably cover it.

At some level this ritual is about the game, like any superstition that any athlete in any sport has, it about playing his best, and even if it isn't specifically about winning, deep down it is about winning. The guy that checks the pads in his helmet three times before every game, may be doing it for safety but he is also doing it because he has always checked his helmet three times before every game and doing so has taken him to the NFL and has brought him success. It is no different for Tebow, just done to a way more annoyingly extreme level.

The praying is nothing more than Tebow's way of entering Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. It's totally a cheat code. How else do you explain the NFL's 28th best quarterback leading a team in the playoffs?

Kenan Thompson and Bill Hader are usually pretty good, but last weekend had the Bowl Madness skit that outdid everything. I was actually in the Texas A&M marching band, so it's even funnier to me.

Did you just quote Kimya Dawson? LMAO at that.

Does the Tebow prayer cheat code work in Bible Adventures too?