I love Tim Tebow. There I said it.  But not for the reasons you think.  Tim is not a great football player, as evidenced by his <a href="http://scores.espn.go.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=311218007" target="_blank">absolute drubbing</a> by the New England Patriots.  Although his statistics as a quarterback have been improving, and his capacity as a leader to instill a competitive fire in his teammates is unquestionable, he's still young and NOT the second coming of the Messiah.  He's just a human being who loves the game like a little kid.

And that's what I love about Tim Tebow.  When the millionaire athletes can't agree on how to split three million dollars, it's awesome to see someone willing to sit on the pine, anxiously waiting like a ten year old kid, wondering, "Can I go in coach?  Can I go in?" Tebow plays the game with a sense of juvenile glee that is infectious.  He's like a frat kid with a beanie that would play 'til the street lights came on, and then want to play some more.  What I love about Tim Tebow is his love and appreciation for the love of the game.

And then there's his faith.

I actually don't mind Tim's expression of his faith.  It's everyone's human right to speak their mind and share what is important to him.  We love his love for the game but some just can't stand his love for God.  And I get that.  We like to separate our lives into neat little

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Charles P. Pierce asks a really Provoketive question.  Does

Let us be quite clear — Tim Tebow adheres to a particular form of American Protestantism. He belongs to — and proselytizes for — a splinter of a splinter, no more or less than Mitt Romney once did. This particular splinter has a long record in America of fostering anti-Enlightenment thought, retrograde social policies, and, more discreetly, religious bigotry. To call Tim Tebow a "Christian," and to leave it at that — as though there were one definition of what a "Christian" is — is to say nothing and everything at once. Roman Catholics are Christians. So are Lutherans, Episcopalians, Melkites, Maronites, and members of the Greek and Russian Orthodox faiths. You can see how insidious this is when discussion turns to the missionary work that Tebow's family has done in the Philippines. This is from the Five Priorities of the Bob Tebow ministries, regarding its work overseas:

<em>It is the goal of the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association to preach the gospel to every person who has never had an opportunity to hear the good news of eternal life in Jesus Christ. Most of the world's population has never once had the opportunity to hear the only true message of forgiveness of sins by faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone.</em>