Tebow, Tebow, Tebow, Tebow ...

The signs say it all on I-25 & 58th. Maybe they should also put up signs saying, "John Fox, get a running game."  Or how about, "John Fox, shore up your defense."

More than likely, John Fox doesn't even drive by 1-25 & 58th. It's too far north of the Broncos' facility or even the former Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium. Maybe somebody should have thought of that a little earlier.

I'm wondering if this just isn't sports talk radio conspiracy. The talking heads say they don't want Tebow as the starting quarterback and it is annoying when the Tebow zombies call up demanding that he become their starting quarterback. 

But they continue to yammer on the subject 24-7. Do they hate it? Again, Garth says .... not!!!

TTBC ... Tebow to be continued.

Life is one day at a time

There's a sports cliché that coaches and athletes love.

One day at a time.

"We're just going to take it one day at a time," the coach says about the rest of the season.

Throughout the years, most sportscasters or sportswriters just kind of roll their eyes when they hear it. Sometimes you get that coach or player who says it so much you can basically count on it at some point during each interview.

Sometimes I wonder if the fact that Teresa is a former Division I athlete, and I've been a sportswriter for over half of my life, that the term "one day at a time" really fits us.

When talking about Teresa's health, despite some very positive improvements in the last couple of months, we still live one day at a time. Basically, each day we really don't know what will happen.

A couple of months ago, Teresa hit a bad spell where her temperatures rose to an alarming 104 degrees and doctors told me to prepare for the worst. For the most part, it has appeared that the doctors have gotten a handle of it.

Then early Tuesday her temperature spiked to 102 again. It appears that her prednisone steroid was dropped too much. Doctors have been weening her down from 80 milligrams a day to currently about 18 (9 in the morning and 9 at night). At times it has been too much of a drop for her body to handle and she has gone into an adrenal crisis. Recently, it mistakenly went from 9 to 7 and it happened again.

That mistake could have been more serious but Teresa had the mindset and determination that she would not let it get worse, and it didn't. She's doing better now but that scare is always there.

Her kidney specialists now are worried that the years of steroids might have fried her adrenal glands, which could hurt her kidney function.

Now the infectious disease doctors are saying that she has at least three more months on the antibiotic before they can evaluate her status. A couple of weeks ago, we were thinking it could be late October or in November. So much for handing out candy at Halloween or having Thanksgiving dinner at home. The goal now is to be home for Christmas.

One day at a time.

I often get asked, "So, how are you doing?" in reference to how I am handling things. Often, I just shrug my shoulders and say "OK, I guess"

What am I supposed to say?

There are times when I feel the walls crashing down on me. I watch a television show and laugh and then feel guilty about it.

But all I can do is keep going. I have to.

I have to be strong, both physically and mentally for Teresa's sake. I have to drive every day the 45 miles to work in Cheyenne, then drive home at 1 a.m. When it's my day off, I drive to Denver. That last part isn't a have to; it's a want to.

I told Teresa the other day that I think I know what to tell people when they ask me how I am doing.

I'll just say,"I'm tired."

Simple as that.

But I can't be tired. When she comes home, I have to be here. I have to get the house ready. It needs a lot of work and remodeling just for her to come home and get around. I have to be here to help her physically. I can't if I'm not in good shape. I need to lose weight. My back is killing me. I have to take care of it. I have to get stronger.

I have to and I will. Actually, we will together.

One day at a time.

Put Tebow in. Yeah, that's it

The fascination with Tim Tebow in Denver is mind numbing.

Since the day Josh McDaniels shocked the NFL world by making him the Broncos' No. 1 draft pick, Tebow has been on a rock star roller coaster ride in the Mile High city. I'm not exactly sure why.

So I'll just make something up.

Tebow has arguably shown in practice and in games that he is not starting quarterback material in the NFL. At least that's what the experts tell us.

To them, he is just a marketing joke. Check his jersey sales.

To his fans, he is the savior, no pun intended or disrespect to his strong religious beliefs.

If you read the letters to the editor, listen to the sports talk shows, see all  of the No. 15 jerseys around town and hear the jeers in the stands at the former Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium, his not starting at quarterback is the only solution.

Kyle Orton is no good. Brady Quinn is no good. Tim Tebow is good.

The argument is that he is a winner, that the Broncos are going no where, so why not give him a chance? He couldn't do any worse, right?

The problem is, the Tebow fanatics refuse to believe what most NFL coaches and experts say about his passing skills, or lack of them.

Those experts constantly talk about the flaws in his delivery, that his style doesn't compute in the NFL game.

They're probably right. After all, they are the experts and if it's on the Internet, it has to be right.

When the Broncos opened the season with a 23-20 loss to the hated Raiders in front of a Monday Night Football national audience, the thousands and thousands of Tebow-wearing-jersey-fans stated their case in ways that would make a sailor just back from a couple of months at sea blush. Monday night's game was not a Denver Chamber of Commerce moment.

Tebow followers must have been right. There's no way that the Broncos are a bad team because they can't stop the run on defense, that they have no running game and that they make way too many silly mental mistakes.

It's got to be that they lost because Tim Tebow wasn't playing.

For most fans, winning is what matters. Obviously, the Broncos haven't done a lot of that lately. I'm wondering, though, if that really matters to some.

Fans are flooding the phone lines, writing their poison pen letters, demanding that John Fox and John Elway make the change now.

Maybe they should.

Why not just trade Orton to, say, the Seahawks, get a couple of high draft picks for next year and put Wonder Boy in the lineup? That will solve everything.

Or it won't.

Maybe they should just realize that it is only the first game of the season.

Naw, Orton sucks. Tebow! Tebow! Tebow!