The Broncos take the bait and draft Timmy Intolerable at number 25.  Now the real fun begins: the most glorified backup rookie quarterback ever!

SCOTT JACOBS

Enough is enough with Tim Tebow.  Has he cured cancer?  Been to Mars?  Signed a peace treaty between Israel and Palestine?  No. No. and No.

Tim Tebow had a really amazing college career.  Supposedly he inspired millions of people in the process.  Grown men and professional analysts alike, paid to be unbiased, claimed that “five minutes with him, would change your life.”  Yesterday, ESPN analysts who shall not be named, publicly stated they’d love to have Tebow as a son.

And to quote Ke$ha’s popular song, “blah, blah, blah.”

Enough!

This has gotten out of hand.

Yes Tebow won two national championships at Florida.  Yes, he won a Heisman trophy and nearly lasooed in a second.  Yes, he may have been the most ballyhooed college player while at school ever.  Yes, he broke records, lots of them, wore biblical messages on his black eye stuff, and yes he was gritty, gutsy, and one heck of a competitor.  We watched him cry like Adam Morrison on national TV.  We heard his speeches, “you will never see anyone work harder than I will.”  We saw the inside of his home.  We got a longer pre-draft segment on Timmy Intolerable than the top 5 potential draft picks combined.

And yet, it’s just the begining.

The good news is that Tebow was drafted yesterday, ending months of speculation where he’d go in the draft and who would take the plunge because he was such a fantastic character guy.  The bad news is he was the top story on ESPN.com, despite getting drafted 25th!

This is the most attention a Denver draft pick has received since, good ol’ Maurice Clarett got taken in the third round a few years back.  Clarett, was not a character guy, but he had boatloads of talent.  Tebow, a gold standard for character (if you look up character in the ESPN Encyclopedia, you’ll see his picture.  I swear it’s probably in there), is the guy whose talent has been questioned.  And his mechanics.  And his arm stength.  And his ability to be a quality quarterback in this league.  Forget, elite.  Who needs elite, when you can pine for… mediocre!

Sam Bradford went number one to the Rams.  He barely played last year.  Suh went number two to the Lions.  If Detroit hasn’t self combusted in excitement I just don’t understand sports anymore.  Jimmy Clausen freefalled from Mel Kiper’s fourth best player in the draft, to undrafted going into the second round.  And yet it’s Tim Tebow that takes the cake (and then redistributes it to needy families everywhere).

We knew this was inevitable.  For god sakes, Tebow had his own Super Bowl ad! Yet, I can’t help but feel like this is the worst oversaturation of a player in the history of sports.

While Bradford got interviewed briefly, Tebow’s conversation with Jeremy Schapp was so long I was waiting for Bob Ley to get on screen to announce that this was actually Outside the Lines, First Report, not the NFL Draft.

The media loves this guy.  Or hates him.  I get that.  One prominent sports writer had a blog devoted to all things Tebow, while Timmy Intolerable was at UF.  And for the record, that guy was a national sports writer in the northeast!  But when does this end?

Congratulations Denver!  You passed up a more talented player for a better quality guy.  Congratulations Denver! You made Tebow’s transformation from blue and orange, to navy and orange, an easy one, for his family and friends.  Congratulations Denver!  You just opened up a media circus the first day you open up your mini camps.  And training camps.  And the regular season.  ESTN (Entertainment, Sports and Tebow Network) will probably have a reality show with Tebow in no time.  And then we can document all the fun facts of life as a fourth string celebrity.

I don’t know if Tebow will be a good NFL player.  I don’t know if he’ll make it as a quarterback.  I just know I’m sick of the guy.  It’s not cute anymore.  It’s not cool.  It’s nauseating.  So far out of bounds, that you might see Ron Artest in the stands while you look for the line.

“I’m excited,” he said, over and over, in an interview with Schapp that dragged on way longer than any draft day interview should.

So are we.  Maybe, for at least the next few days we’ll get a break from you.

This just in: Tebow just sneezed.  More on the 11pm Sportscenter.

Err… maybe, not.

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