A Tale of Two Quarterbacks

One upon a time there was a team that hadn’t won a cham­pi­onship in a long time.

That team acquired a quar­ter­back, a quar­ter­back who had led his pre­vi­ous team to a National title.

The quar­ter­back led team to win after win, he was much beloved by the fans of the team.

But all was not well, Despite his suc­cess the quar­ter­back on the field, he was derided by mem­bers of the media and the elites who down­played his skills con­sid­ered his victory’s flukes and mocked his behav­ior on and off the field and con­fi­dently pre­dicted his failure.

The cries did not les­son when his team won the divi­sion. The cri­tiques screamed all the louder and hoped for his fail­ure. Even as the team won the wild card game they con­fi­dently pre­dicted his fail­ure as he headed to the 2^nd round of the playoffs

They were rewarded his team was unable to win the divi­sional game. They urged his team to cut loose the quar­ter­back and replace him. Despite his suc­cess man­age­ment didn’t think highly of the quar­ter­back sought a new one trad­ing the first quar­ter­back to another team.

The team signed a dif­fer­ent quar­ter­back who had a team to a National title for 18 mil­lion dol­lars.

The dif­fer­ent quar­ter­back lead his new team to win after win, he was much beloved by the fans of the team.

Unlike the first quar­ter­back the sec­ond quar­ter­back was treated dif­fer­ently. His suc­cess on the field and behav­ior off it, was cel­e­brated by the mem­bers of the media. The elites praised his con­sid­er­able sills, attrib­uted the victory’s to him and con­fi­dently pre­dicted his con­tin­ued success

Mean­while the elite’s hatred of the first quar­ter­back still burned. That laughed as his new team refused to start him. When their start­ing QB replaced due to fail­ure they pro­moted the 3^rd string QB over him. When the 3^rd string QB went down with an injury before the last day game of the sea­son his new team refused to start him and fin­ished the sea­son tied for last place with the first quar­ter­back on the bench with­out start­ing a sin­gle game.

But as far as his old fran­chise was con­cerned the first quar­ter­back was old news. The new quar­ter­back con­tin­ued to win and the praise of all only con­tin­ued when his team won the divi­sion and the acco­lades came all the louder as the team secured a first round bye. They antic­i­pated his suc­cess as his team headed into the 2^nd round of the play­offs with a bye.

And then with the game on the line, the quar­ter­back that was con­sid­ered a can­di­date for MVP. The quar­ter­back that they paid more than 11 times more than the first quar­ter­back threw a key inter­cep­tion and lost in the playoffs.

The extra 16.89 mil­lion dol­lars the team paid bought them one less play­off vic­tory than the year before.

The two quar­ter­backs if you haven’t fig­ured it out by now are Tim Tebow & Pey­ton Man­ning the team is the Den­ver Broncos.

Both Quar­ter­backs played hard, they con­ducted them­selves pro­fes­sion­ally and hon­or­ably on and off the field but one was loved by the elites and one was not. Why?

The elite cul­ture can abide almost any­thing, even belief and faith in Christ as long as it is not pub­lic and unafraid. Tim Tebow not only loves Jesus Christ and tries his best to walk in his ways but he loves Christ instead of the cul­ture that the media and the elites rule and feed off and does so pub­licly and unafraid.

That’s a crime they will never forgive.

I’ll give the last word to Den­ver fans via twitter:

Lis­ten­ing to Den­ver sports talk radio, callers wish­ing they still had Tebow.Congrats Ravens, u did that.

—Pete Gilbert (@WBALPete) Jan­u­ary 13, 2013