I wasn’t trying to attack you or your piece specifically with this post. Though I admit it probably is unfair that I used your article as a jumping off point for my thoughts on something that a lot of writers have done.

It sounds like you and I were trying to say the same thing, but I chose to focus on your words and not on your intent. In my defense, I’d been hearing a lot of Tebow-worship, to the point that it all started to blend together. I could have chosen any article to base this on, or just used the announcing crew from any game the Gators played this season, but yours had the unfortunate luck of getting stuck in my head for repeated use of the word “superman.”

Anyway man, I apologize if I offended you. It’s really nothing personal (I save my abstract hatred for people like Matthew Stafford) and hope you won’t let my comments take anything away from what was, regardless of anything I said, a well written piece that did an excellent job of capturing the unseen side of all the post-game jubilation.

Thanks for the clarification.

The point of the story is Tebow is a man, a regular guy, a 21-year-old freckly faced kid carrying the burden of expectations for tens of thousands of people who think he walks on water.

The mythical figure others make him out to be is there, in that story, just a bruised, battered kid who, at the end of the night, can’t even muster the strength take one more picture with a fan, “the illusion that supermen do not bruise.”

Here’s the whole point of the story which you apparently missed: Cut the kid a break. He’s just a man. “It’s not always easy being Superman.” Understand?