Tim Tebow

Florida graduate and lifelong Gators fan Mike Beattie followed every development of the Tim Tebow trade. After it finally ended, his wife turned to him and said, "Do we have to start rooting for the Jets?"

NEW YORK — Tebowmania is headed to Broadway.

LAS VEGAS -- This weekend, the long lines, huge crowds and jersey-clad sports fans in Las Vegas were jockeying for a chance to get into church.

An estimated 20,000 people, including one family that arrived at 4 a.m. Saturday to be the first in line, showed up at Canyon Ridge Christian Church over the weekend to hear Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow share about faith and football.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- Two New York high school athletes have been flagged for organizing several "kneel-downs" in tribute to Tim Tebow.

The mother of 17-year-old twins Connor and Tyler Carroll says they are impressed with the Denver Broncos quarterback. Tebow has led Denver to a 7-1 record and is a devout Christian known for kneeling in prayer on the gridiron.

The twins play football and baseball for Riverhead High School on Long Island. Mom Sherry Carroll says they had no religious intentions when they organized the kneel-downs this week.

About 40 students participated in the largest act of "Tebowing" on Wednesday.

MIAMI -- No one can say with certainty when it happened, but Tim Tebow appears to have taken over our world.

Perhaps the Dolphins helped catapult him from interesting topic to unavoidable subject by allowing him to bring the Broncos back from 15 points down, but the former Heisman Trophy winner has morphed from a great college player and questionable first-round pick all the way to the most intriguing conversation in all of football.

He has turned a simple pose into a worldwide trend. He has turned the iconic former champion quarterback John Elway into a divisive figure in his own home city. He has turned the once-wretched Denver Broncos into a serious playoff threat and probably the most entertaining low-scoring team in NFL history. And he has created a firestorm because there is one simple question no one seems to have a convincing enough answer to: "Can Tebow win regularly, and at a high level, as an NFL quarterback?"

Even those of us rooting hard for Tim Tebow -- because we want to see a young man of his character and conviction succeed on such a grand stage -- know this can't last.

We know why NFL teams don't run the spread-option offense in which Tebow excelled at Florida. We know this is a gimmick.

And we know that, though these gimmicks catch opponents off-guard and can work for a while, defenses eventually figure out how to stop them.

That will happen to the Denver Broncos, too.

That's why Tebow, unless he drastically improves his