OK, you know what’s coming next. I, like every other sports columnist, would love to refrain from chuckling at the Broncos, their “fans” and Tim Tebow, but that is asking the impossible. While other players’ failures receive little press, Tebow is a powder keg. Although he is a great humanitarian and extremely humble, he did himself no favors while playing his role in this ongoing drama. As Kyle Orton was unfairly being hung out to dry, Tebow made no effort to back his teammate. I do not know Orton personally, but I can’t imagine that he is evil enough for Tebow to wish him ill will. Tebow could have stemmed the tide and saved some face by backing Orton and his coach, John Fox, by stating the organization is putting their best players on the field in an effort to win games. Even if he doesn’t believe it, it would appear that he cares about the team more than himself. Had he done that, he possibly may have stifled some of the fans calling his number. It wouldn’t have done anything to the idiots buying billboard space but it would have helped his perception in the eyes of countless others who have now grown tired of all the hub-bub. We now relish the backlash, even if much of it is caused by the hype of those who fervently follow him and have started “Tebowing“. These are the true targets of the mockery aimed at Tebow. But, since they are nameless and faceless, the poison-tipped ink arrows all point towards Tebow. I still don’t understand why Denver traded for Brady Quinn. Maybe they plan on using him soon to get the Irish bashers going as well.
Speaking of mockery, that word is barely effective enough when discussing Kim Kardashian’s treatment of marriage. Poor Kris Humphries. He embodies the punchline of a joke that everyone saw coming as soon as the joke started. KK simply used Kris’ ill-directed attempt at happiness to bolster her reality ratings. For the life of me, I have no idea why anyone really cares for anything she does other than to make home movies but I definitely saw this divorce coming. What it must mean is that a new season of her loser show must be filming and they were fresh out of ideas on how to keep her loser viewers engaged (hee-hee). Come on, people. Why do some of you make celebrities out of no-talent hacks? It amazes me even more to see these non-talents successfully drag even less interesting personalities, like sisters and parents, into the limelight as well. At least Humphries’ sport isn’t bothering me. The NBA can stay away permanently for all I care.
OK, so that foresight was as obvious as watching the commercials for that new animated series, Allen Gregory, and knowing it would suck. I personally don’t think Jonah Hill is funny, but his show makes Bob’s Burgers look like the early years of The Simpsons. The best part of the first show is that it is over and Fox will quit incessantly airing the same annoying snippets of the show on commercial breaks during games. Soon enough, it won’t be airing any snippets of the show. Live sporting events is the only TV I will watch without recording using my DVR so I can fast-forward over the commercials, leaving advertisers little time to make an impression on me. Too bad most of them make poor ones.
When it comes to foresight, I did say a few weeks ago that St, Louis had the talent to get off the snide much sooner than Indy or Miami. Of course, I would never have forecast that to be against the Saints. That was a downright shocker (getting back to football). Last weekend was an odd weekend overall as many big favorites were losing out of the gate. Most of those teams did right the ship eventually. The perceived “good” teams that did not should come back with a vengeance this week. Expect Dallas to whoop up on Seattle, the Saints to destroy the Bucs and for the Patriots to make up for a poor showing at Pittsburgh by hanging over 50 on the porous G-Men D. I think you will see an upset in Buffalo with the Jets winning and I would not be surprised to see Miami go into Arrowhead and come out with a victory since the Chiefs will manage to take them lightly after ripping off 4 straight wins.
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