Having not read the book (and frankly not planning to) I will refrain from any direct comment regarding the news surrounding a just-released book about him from an Elway syncophant/apologist in which The Man With The Ego As Big As The Rockies makes excuses as he blames and generally trashes Tim Tebow for that otherwise disastrous first season (right up until TT took over, righted the ship and got them into and through tge first round of the playoffs!) as GM in Denver.
I will only explain the title above: In journalism, there is an old saw that “Dog Bites Man” isn’t “NEWS”; “Man Bites Dog” IS!...
So, by extension, neither is “Elway Trashes Tebow”!!!
I mean, he forbade Tebow being played despite the ongoing debacle of a season, had to endure MONTHS of ensuing success when his Coach (Josh McDaniels), figuring his days numbered, the fans HOLLERING for him to put in the kid he himself had insisted on drafting in the first round (and to a certain extent auditioning for his NEXT job, let’s face it), was of course HIMSELF promptly fired when they finally lost a playoff game—practically the same day Big-Ego-John cut TT too, BTW...
It is well known to ANYONE who has had to work with, near or (worst of all) FOR the guy: The one thing you cannot be, the one thing he cannot handle, is to draw more attention or admiration than “me-me-ME!John!!!”
Who knows? I’ve met several of my “heroes” in the course of my life; I don’t know if it was “a bad day” or “feet of clay”, but they haven’t always been satisfying moments that confirmed my former impressions after all! But who am I to judge? Life goes on, none of us are perfect, and I had at BEST the smallest, shortest of snapshot momentary insights into their lives. Far be it from me to make blanket judgements of ANYONE based on so little information!
I’d certainly like to think that under NO circumstances would I have a professional writer ghost a hatchet-job on someone just because (1) I didn’t like them, and (2) I had the power and inclination to do so.
Small, petty after ALL, “LITTLE John”.
I will only explain the title above: In journalism, there is an old saw that “Dog Bites Man” isn’t “NEWS”; “Man Bites Dog” IS!...
So, by extension, neither is “Elway Trashes Tebow”!!!
I mean, he forbade Tebow being played despite the ongoing debacle of a season, had to endure MONTHS of ensuing success when his Coach (Josh McDaniels), figuring his days numbered, the fans HOLLERING for him to put in the kid he himself had insisted on drafting in the first round (and to a certain extent auditioning for his NEXT job, let’s face it), was of course HIMSELF promptly fired when they finally lost a playoff game—practically the same day Big-Ego-John cut TT too, BTW...
It is well known to ANYONE who has had to work with, near or (worst of all) FOR the guy: The one thing you cannot be, the one thing he cannot handle, is to draw more attention or admiration than “me-me-ME!John!!!”
Who knows? I’ve met several of my “heroes” in the course of my life; I don’t know if it was “a bad day” or “feet of clay”, but they haven’t always been satisfying moments that confirmed my former impressions after all! But who am I to judge? Life goes on, none of us are perfect, and I had at BEST the smallest, shortest of snapshot momentary insights into their lives. Far be it from me to make blanket judgements of ANYONE based on so little information!
I’d certainly like to think that under NO circumstances would I have a professional writer ghost a hatchet-job on someone just because (1) I didn’t like them, and (2) I had the power and inclination to do so.
Small, petty after ALL, “LITTLE John”.