Tim Tebow and why you hear his name a thousand times a day.

MVP

Let me start by stating a few things. I love Tim Tebow, I have an autographed rookie card and I bought his jersey as soon as it was available after he was drafted. I'm also a devout atheist and I don't care if he thanks the nine thousand different Hindu deities after games. I've also said from day one that he was going to be a successful pro QB. Even wagered with one of my friends that he will win more games than Sam Bradford over their first 5 years. So you will never see me be shocked by the plays he pulls off and the games his team wins. He's a leader and a winner, which other players recognize and raise their game. When everyone on a team is on the same page and working hard guess what, winning happens.
However there are a LOT of people that can't stand Tebow. Today I realized why and I empathize with your pain. Turn on ESPN or NFL network and there's a good chance they are gonna mention him within 2 minutes. The "Tebow Overload" can understandably make people that don't care for him hate him even more. What I am going to attempt to explain here is WHY there is so much "Tebow Overload".
When ex Bronco coach and current Rams offensive coordinator Josh McDaniel traded up in the draft to pick Tebow at #25 in the first round, the pick was universally panned. The ex-players and NFL "insiders" all dug in and talked about how bad a pick it was. He took him too early, it's gonna take years to develop Tebow, he may never be able to play QB in the league, these are just some of the criticisms lobbed at him on draft night. Never mind that all he did was get drafted, they hadn't even had a rookie mini camp yet.
So in his first season he sat the bench for most of it, the coach who drafted him got fired mid-season and things did not look promising for young Timmy.
Fast forward to this offseason and John Elway takes over the organization and once the lockout ends, teams start training camp. Elway and new coach John Fox make it clear they want a pocket passer so Kyle Orton is named the starter with Brady Quinn backing him up. The wise and all knowing talking heads remind us, "we told you so, Tebow can't play QB in the league". Then as anyone could predict Orton does an amazing job at being terrible and Denver fans call for Tebow. So the change is made, Tebow is going to start now. Again the talking heads start in, "he's got bad footwork, his throwing motion is bad, this isn't going to end well". Then a strange thing happened. Denver won his first start. The ESPN guys were quick to point out that it was against a crappy Dolphins team and not to worry Tebow would still fail. The next week Denver gets killed by the Lions. An absolute crushing of the Broncos, which led to a sea of  "I told you so's". We all know what has happened since then, Denver hasn't lost a game and Tebow has led them to multiple fourth quarter comebacks. Now we circle back to why you the reader, doesn't like him. Because the same people who dug in and said he was always gonna be horrible had to face reality. So they invent the phrase "Tebow Time" and talk about how something "magical" is happening. They are essentially forcing Tim Tebow down your throat whether you want to hear about him or not. Let's all remember that it's not his fault that ESPN and other football shows won't stop talking about him. They are trying very hard to cover up the fact that every single one of them was wrong from the beginning. The defense and special teams of course deserve a ton of credit but it's not as newsworthy as Tebow's "magical" powers to win games late. Fortunately I can explain the magic to you. He is a LEADER. I hate when people say about any player "he's a winner", well aren't all people that win "winners"? The enthusiasm and excitement that Tebow brings to his team extends to every person on the roster. They've all raised their game since he got the nod at QB, it should be obvious to any observer. They were 1-4 with the listless Orton, and 7-1 under Tebow. He leads that team and they all play better for him. So while I understand that people hate all the credit and praise he is getting, keep in mind he always credits the other guys on the team and he is not responsible for the over saturation of coverage. That is a direct byproduct of the NFL "experts" who wrote him off the second after he was drafted. If they actually were "experts" they would have seen this coming, I'm not a league "insider" but I know football and am not surprised by what he is doing at all.