It may be hard to remember this now, but just 16 months ago, he had led the Denver Broncos to a victory over the PittsburghSteelers in the NFL playoffs, the high water mark of a season in which Tebow, playing some gutsy old-school football, energized the NFL. As many have pointed out, he did what his replacement, Peyton Manning, did not by winning a playoff game for the Broncos.
Remember that last year, a regular season NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and the PittsburghSteelers drew 3 million more TV viewers than Game 4 of the Fall Classic between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers.