"They won! The Lord is with him..."

[beeline]

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It all ends Saturday night, Pats 42, Broncos 9.

[2012 Countdown]

Yes, I too say as much. This run ends tomorrow. If the Broncos do what is needed in terms of personnel and playcalling, and let the Tebow out, with a years full time starter offseason practice, who knows!
For tomorrow though, Brady to light it up. I'd give the Broncos 17ish though. If they get to Brady though, all bets are off! Denver has a good shot. They will try to put up a bunch of points so that Denver has to play massive catch-up. That has to be the plan. I caught the replay of the Pats game last night. Rewatch it. Tebow played pretty damned good in that loss.
I understand Brandon Spikes (Gator) will be back to linebacker duties for the Pats though. Now he was the star defensive leader to Tebow. Hernandez (Gator tight end) will be his star self catching Brady passes again. Fun game for the swamp people. We will all be pulling for the Broncos though.

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Oh, and to an Eagle fan (Beeline), how about that Rieley Cooper!

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I believe in Tim Tebow
I've come to believe in Tim Tebow, but not for what he does on a football field, which is still three parts Dr. Jekyll and two parts Mr. Hyde.

No, I've come to believe in Tim Tebow for what he does off a football field, which is represent the best parts of us, the parts I want to be and so rarely am.

Who among us is this selfless?

Every week, Tebow picks out someone who is suffering, or who is dying, or who is injured, flies them and their families to the Broncos game, rents them a car, puts them up in a nice hotel, buys them dinner (usually at a Dave and Buster's), gets them and their families pregame passes, visits with them just before kickoff (!), gets them 30-yard line tickets down low, visits with them after the game (sometimes for an hour), has them walk him to his car, and sends them off with a basket of gifts.

Home or road, win or lose, hero or goat.

Remember last week, when the world was pulling its hair out in the hour after Tebow had stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers with an 80-yard OT touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas in the playoffs? And Twitter was exploding with 9,420 tweets about Tebow per second? When an ESPN poll was naming him the most popular athlete in America?

Tebow was spending that hour talking to 16-year-old Bailey Knaub about her 73 surgeries so far and what TV shows she likes.

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"Here he'd just played the game of his life," recalls Bailey's mother, Kathy, of Loveland, Colo., "and the first thing he does after his press conference is come find Bailey and ask, 'Did you get anything to eat?' He acted like what he'd just done wasn't anything, like it was all about Bailey."

More than that, Tebow kept corralling people into the room for Bailey to meet. Hey, Demaryius, come in here a minute. Hey, Mr. Elway. Hey, Coach Fox.

Even though sometimes-fatal Wegener's granulomatosis has left Bailey with only one lung, the attention took her breath away.

"It was the best day of my life," she emailed. "It was a bright star among very gloomy and difficult days. Tim Tebow gave me the greatest gift I could ever imagine. He gave me the strength for the future. I know now that I can face any obstacle placed in front of me. Tim taught me to never give up because at the end of the day, today might seem bleak but it can't rain forever and tomorrow is a new day, with new promises."

I read that email to Tebow and he was honestly floored.

"Why me? Why should I inspire her?" he said. "I just don't feel, I don't know, adequate. Really, hearing her story inspires me."

It's not just NFL defenses that get Tebowed. It's kids who will die soon. It's adults who can hardly stand. It's high school girls who don't know if they'll ever go to a prom.

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http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/7455 ... -tim-tebow

[82_28]

Oh, it doesn't end tomorrow at all -- unless it does. The donks are just getting started. I know of no true Broncos fan who expects to win. I know of no true Broncos fan who says if we lose tomorrow we will be unhappy. I know of no true Broncos fan who is even talking shit about the opponent -- which is very out of character for any NFL team's support in the playoffs. I read the Broncos Country boards just a little less than RI

I also know many a betting person and I mean HEAVY betters who gave me shit all season long about how much Tebow sucks, who have now confessed they are "believers" now in his abilities. And the ones I've spoken to in the last week are steering well clear of putting any money on this game.

Broncos 31 Patriots 28 in OT

Win or Lose, Broncos nation is finally happy again. Finally.

[JackRiddler]

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Hell of a conundrum: Root for the Patriots? Hell no. Just understand that they're going to win.

[Allegro]

[82_28]

Granted it's just football, American at that. So who cares?

I have a feeling though, that God frowns upon cheaters. The Pats hired McDaniels in order to cheat, in the sense of "yeah, it's unethical", "yeah the guy's a disaster", but any given Sunday as they say. Too bad it's Saturday. But they're piling up any kind of mental defense they may have. The Broncos will win on spirit, will and ability alone.

Donks 31 Bellicheats 28

And when we lose, we're still winners. Thank you for the third most memorable moment in Broncos history. Possibly the first.

[vanlose kid]

i'm actually planning to watch the game now. you guys are a corrupting influence.

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[crikkett]

[2012 Countdown]

Cricket post above^ I don't care for Fallin, but that Bowie impression is great! Funny too.

[Sounder]

Thanks crikkett.

Very cool find.

[Belligerent Savant]

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Well, it seems Jesus took a day of rest 1 day early...

[JackRiddler]

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It's all part of the Passion. Where is it written that the Evil Empire merely executes the Irritating Jesus? They crucify him. They let him die on the cross through the whole of the second half. The Colosseum howls.

Yowch! Another 3 minutes, another touchdown. 42-7. In the unlikely event Brady's sacked for a safety, beeline will have hit the exact score... on the way to 63-12.

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[Nordic]

Sure glad I watched the OTHER game instead. Now that was a great game.

"The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away".

[beeline]

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I wish my prognostication skills were always so accurate, I'd be hitting 25:1 7-team parlays down at Delaware Park on a weekly basis. Ah well...I would not have picked the 49ers over the Saints, nor the Giants over the Packers.

Tebow has won himself at least one more year as starter though, no small feat considering his mechanics. It will be almost impossible for a draft pick to unseat him in training camp, given his popularity and the volume of jersy sales. And frankly, he is a likeable fellow, it's obvious the rest of the team elevates their play due to his enthusiam.

[JackRiddler]

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I wish my prognostication skills were always so accurate, I'd be hitting 25:1 7-team parlays down at Delaware Park on a weekly basis. Ah well...I would not have picked the 49ers over the Saints, nor the Giants over the Packers.

Hm. I'd have picked the Giants (didn't even watch it) but the 49er game showed the power of contingency to confound rational action or analysis.