Tim Tebow Throws Touchdown Pass to ESPN's Skip Bayless About John Elway and Jake Plummer

John Elway, the chief of football operations for the Denver Broncos told listeners in Denver this week on his radio show "The Ticket" that he still didn't feel that the team definitively had their quarterback yet in Tim Tebow. Former Denver Bronco quarterback Jake Plummer took to the airwaves about Tebow this week as well, telling a Phoenix radio station that "I think that when he accepts the fact that we know that he loves Jesus Christ, then I think I'll like him a little bit better."

Neither man was attacking Tim Tebow per se, but both were expressing their own opinions about how they feel about the young man who has already taking the Broncos to a greater winning season than his predecessor Kyle Orton and who makes it clear that he doesn't go around worrying about "what other people think of him," as he said in his book, "Through My Eyes."

ESPN's Skip Bayless gave Tebow the opportunity to respond to both men's comments and as you might expect, the NFL player took the high ground and focused on what is a known Christian principle: thinking about the positives in life.

In Philippines Chapter 4 and verse 8 of the Holy Bible, Christians were told by the Apostle Paul to think about whatever is true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report. They are to "think on these things" rather than to focus on gossip and negative comments others may make about them. To that end, Tebow told Skip Bayless in regards to John Elway that, "I'm honored to play for him and try to win games for him and Coach Fox and Mr. Bowlen and everybody involved in this great organization."

Tebow specifically avoids dwelling on what others say about him, as he knows that is a dead end and beyond his control anyway. So why go there? It is a more productive use of his time -- and helps maintain the right attitude -- to focus on things he can control instead.

About Plummer's comment, Tebow threw a touchdown pass as well, putting a question to Plummer that many can identify with. Tebow asked, "If you're married and you have a wife and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married?" Tebow doesn't think so, going on to say, "Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity?

Denver Bronco's quarterback says his relationship with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is important enough to him to talk about it, regardless of where he is on any given day. And that should be his right, whether Jake Plummer wants to hear it from the sidelines of a game or not.

Celebrities can get up and say and do just about anything in support of their beliefs and causes at award ceremonies, at movie premiers or through political platforms, so what's so different about a Denver Broncos NFL football game? Don't football players like Tim Tebow have the same right as well?

Reference: ESPN, Holy Bible