One observation: Except for the circumstance when an all-time great is playing/has played what seems to be their last game, I have never seen the cameras and commentators try to constantly apologize/excuse an awful awful performance on the field.
The whole 4th quarter coverage consisted of total excuse making for Tebow by the announcers, including at one point pre-emptively saying something like "people are going to point to this game and say he can't play, and that's an overreaction..." (as if pointing to games where he flat out sucks but the Defense/Field Goal Kicker win it and then saying "Tebow just wins" is not an overreaction).
Further fawning statements about how much "adversity" he's overcome and how he'll thrive on this (I'd say his "adversity" qualifies greatly as "first world adversity." Born to a white middle class family, his adversities were: playing high school football for a team that previously was not that great and leading them to a state title. Winning the heisman, then hearing some people say "he's a great athlete, but I don't think he'll be an elite franchise quarterback, but he's still worth a flyer in the first 2 rounds," followed by being drafted in the first round. Then being faced with the adversity of having to beat out Kyle Orton for starting QB privileges. Followed by a period of him receiving a free pass for how awful he played but all the credit whenever he played poor, okay or well and the Team won because of our weird sports cultural logic derived from the equation "Great QBs win games, ergo anytime a team wins a game, the team must have a Great QB" despite, you know, the fifty other players on the roster contributing. Yep, Adversity!! I'm pretty sure 70% of the NFL at least (that's a conservative estimate) has faced much tougher and daunting personal adversity in their path to the NFL, as well as much less free praise, much less public credit for a team effort, and much narrower margin of error to keep their roster spots than Mr. Tebow.
Continuing the observation with which I started after the game there were not only reporters all around Tebow (again, haven't seen this unless the losing qb is an all-time great about to retire, or it was an intense close game with great effort by a losing but great qb), but the CBS broadcast cameras also continued to follow him around, with the winning qb (a legend who had just broken the record for most same coach-qb combination playoff games, set a personal record for playoff passing yards, broken the record for first half TDs and tied the record for TDs in a game) almost completely ignored!
Objectively, this is only due to an insane double standard or obvious media favortism and nothing else.
Personally, I loved it because Brady and the Pat play better when p.o'd and I'd love to see that focus and attitude brought to the rest of the playoffs.
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