Just got home from one CRAZED scene: The local Gator Alumni Club normally hosts Gator-Watch Parties at Champion's downtown here in Austin on game days...after they apparently drew a rather weak crowd for the Gator Bowl, someone got the idea to host a Tebow-Watch Party, and invite the local Bronco and Tebow Fan Clubs (yes, there IS one here) to join them at Champions tonight...I had some friends who were going, and (though I had great trepidation) promised to stop by. Glad I did--it was NUTS! The ups, the downs, the yelling at the screen(s), the arguments between fans coming from totally different perspectives (there were some real hot'n'hostile near-fights over the play-calling from the Bronco sidelines in the early going--Gator and Tebow fans were dissing Elway and Co., and the Bronco fans didn't like it: --eg. "Hey Elway, how can he 'Pull the trigger' when the gameplan is to RUN every down?!!", and "The Kid won a Heisman, Foxx--let him throw the ball!"--then they opened things up, TT started hitting long ones and things got interesting, to say the least). I STILL thought they got too conservative in the redzone, and were taking too many FGs instead of TDs, but it wouldn't have meant so much had not McGahee fumbled at the crucial moment late in the 4th--or Bailey missing that INT he set up for beautifully in the endzone on that last Steeler drive...but it was all just prelude, everything happening as directed by some corny Great Scriptwriter-in-the-Sky: It just turned out all too PERFECTLY, sticking the ball and the game's outcome right in the faces, right down the THROATS of all the "experts" and their me-too followers: all the bitter whining haters like Call-in Cowturd, and all the rest--exactly like we all longed for but didn't really dare to expect. Watch 'em continue to whine and make excuses come tomorrow, oblivious to how it only makes them out more clearly to be the classless losers that they are (as things were, it was HILARIOUS to see and hear Merrill Hoge's stunned, dumbfounded and barely-coherent mumblings directly afterward on ESPN--they went quickly to commercial and you didn't see him on-camera again until a full 40 minutes later on their Sportscenter capper-segment; in fact, it wasn't until the END of that segment, more than 90 min. after The Play-to-end-the-game, that Hoge appeared to "find" himself again, when, asked about NEXT week's match-up, he proceeded to revert once again to arrogant-anti-Tebow-mode and confidently insist on all the things the Pats would and wouldn't do against him, and how that will mean #15's imminent demise THIS time).
TT's performance, his "Victory Lap" a la Gator-days, and the way it all turned out would have been more than enough, but I don't mind telling y'all how satisfying that outcome, coupled with the stunned reactions we've seen, the various no-class excuses we can still expect in the next 24 hrs., and HOW it all happened, is and will continue to be the next few days, at LEAST.
