NFL Pro Bowl 2012: Overlooked Game Needs Tim Tebow to Boost Interest

Tim Tebow doesn't deserve to be a Pro Bowl quarterback, but he should be one. 

That may seem like a paradox, but is the only conclusion after a season that was taxing on the brain as logic and good sense never figured in so many Broncos victories. 

Tebow flourished, and when he didn't, he was still given a tremendous amount of adulation from fans across the nation, even by those that only slightly consider themselves football fans. 

On Tuesday evening, the rosters for the annual Pro Bowl held at Aloha Stadium will be announced. In an odd turn, most of sports fans will have little to no problem with an undeserving player getting into the game. 

The one issue is forever having to refer to Tebow, a quarterback with tenuous precision and one dimensional play, as a Pro Bowl quarterback. But we need to be honest with ourselves from here on out. 

Do we even care about the game? Nobody watches the damn thing. Those that do would rather not admit it. 

There is only two things that need to happen to help along an exhibition that has been near death for years. You either take it out back, shoot it and forget it ever existed, or you make it a popularity contest like other sports do. 

Forget the fans having a one-third say in the final vote, let them have it all. That's what other sports do, at least for the starters. It allows the most popular athletes to get in. Which then allows us all to gripe about it. It's a perfect mix of satiating the masses and polarizing the critics. 

So Tebow might not be the best quarterback out there. In the past two weeks, he may not have even been a good one. But dagnabit, the people love him. And the Pro Bowl needs to either be an award given without a game that will be ignored, or it should just be an exhibition of the most beloved. 

The only thing that will save the Pro Bowl is a mania like the one following Tebow. So let the savior save the Pro Bowl. 

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