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Tim Tebow, the Messiah of the fourth quarter, and Harry Potter, slayer of Lord Voldemort the Hitler of the wizarding world. Just image what would happen if they were juxtaposed into the same universe.

Tebow is 8-5 as the starting quarterback and has six fourth quarter comebacks in his short career. These comebacks have been dubbed as “Tebow Time.”

One of the things Tebow is most known for is his religion and how it is such a big part of his life on and off the football field.

He even has an internet meme when the practice of “Tebowing” became a fad after his success late in games.

Potter’s Gryffindor squad went 7-2 when he was in the starting lineup, with Potter scoring 1050 points in his career.

He was a part of what is regarded as the best team Hogwarts has ever seen in his first three years. Though it should be noted he never played Quidditch professionally, despite his talent level.

In what should have been his seventh year of schooling at Hogwarts Potter, Heromine Granger and Ron Weasley went and destroyed the seven horcruxes that contained Voldemort’s soul. This culminating in Potter destroying him in a epic battle on the school grounds.

RANDOM THOUGHTS: Tim Tebow & TEBOW TIME!!!! YEAAAAAAAH.

Okay, I get it, you hate Tim Tebow, you want me to never write about him again and you hope he plays terribly the entire game.

Fine. Your choice, but he is one of the more interesting and unique players in the league so I will continue to write about him.

But this post isn’t about Tebow per say.
It’s about the cultural phenomenon that has been created because of his late game heroics.

TEBOW TIME.

Fourth quarter: all opponents should dread and say many, many prayers to the big man otherwise prepare for a steamrolling by Tebow.

To the main point of the post, you all know what Tebow Time really is right? (Please say yes, otherwise the media had complete control of your brain).

Tebow Time IS THE TWO-MINUTE DRILL. (It took a lot out of me to break AP Style and use caps lock, but it had to be done.)

Yes, the most interesting and compelling moment in football today, is something that has been around since the dawn of modern football.

The two-minute drill.

Tebow is really, really good at running the two-minute drill.

So from now on lets say the two-minute drill run by Tim Tebow. Eh, how about the two-minute brought to you by Tim Tebow.

I’m just spitballing, but it needs a new name, something the reflects what Tebow is doing.

You know, running the two-minute drill.

Tebow Time. Please. It has already become a cliche.

That is all.

You can resume your regularly scheduled programming.

My column that comparing the ‘07 Poway High football team to this years team was read by somebody (Yay!), I know this because a kind reader left a comment. Paraphrasing what he said in response was that I was disrespecting the ‘07 team because they were the first team to win the Division 1 championship in school history and that I left out a few key details in my argument (you can read his entire comment if you click the link above and scroll down the page).

To first give a more complete answer to his question: To my defense I did mention Relyea and Ricciardulli.

Though he is right I didn’t mention, Nick Milani (74 tackles, 5.5 sacks and five interceptions) and David Deehan (30 tackles, two sacks and one interception), but that was because I looked at the defenses as a whole. While Milani and Deehan were the two big producers on defense the ‘11 team has similar guys that caused problems for opposing offense that I didn’t mention in the article. Like Brian Guendling (31 tackles, a school record 14 sacks and one interception) and Derek Babish (28 tackles and seven interceptions, with two returned for a touchdown). 

He is also right that I didn’t mention the size advantage of the defensive and offensive lines, that was one aspect of the ‘07 team that my memory of the ‘07 team left out. So it was completely unintentional.

Now, to the discussion of if a hypothetical game was played between the ‘07 team and the ‘11 team.

Special Teams:

This was one area of the two teams I didn’t mention in my column. For the ‘07 team Brett Thomas was the electric returner that always seemed to return a kick for a score right when the team needed it. He has eight kickoff returns for 240 yards and one touchdown, and one punt return for 57 yards and a score. Milian (26 punt returns for 294 yards and one touchdown) and Ricciardulli (10 kickoff returns for 327 yards) were the other returners for the ‘07 team.

The ‘11 team has Ryan Sharpe who has returned 18 punts for 336 yards and two touchdowns and Babish has nine kickoff returnes for 336 yards and one touchdown.

In the return area I would take Sharpe from the ‘11 team to return punts and Thomas from the ‘07 team to return kicks.

Both main placekickers had little use, but Jason Diaz (‘11) converted all of his PAT’s and was seven for eight on field goal tries with a long of 38 yards.

Collin Wooster (‘07) team on the other hand missed three PAT’s and was only three for eight on field goal attempts.

Though Wooster had more kickoffs into the endzone (24 to 18). I would also take the ‘07 punter Jordan Tibbets.

In the cases that I favored a player from the ‘07 team, it was really a toss up between the two, so the difference wasn’t that great.

If this game was played field position wouldn’t really matter that much and I doubt there would be that much field goal kicking. 

Advantage: ‘11 team.

Offense:

(See discussion in column.) The addition to the argument is the size of the offensive line, the ‘07 team did have a bigger line, which would give them a slight advantage against the ‘11 team’s defense.

As a whole the ‘11 team has a more electric offense, but I would take Murray (‘07) at quarterback.

Advantage: ‘07 team, by the slightest of margins.

Defense:

(See discussion in column.) But again adding the ‘07 teams superior size on the defensive line, it brings the argument a little closer, but nobody can seem to stop Brian Guendling (‘11) 14 sacks.

The ‘11 team has had a statically better year than the ‘07 team and despite the size advantage the ‘11 team still makes the plays and keeps pressure on the quarterback. 

Advantage: ‘11 team

Looking at everything, I was really hard to predict who would win, they are two of the greatest teams to play at Poway High and both have had great seasons, but I think the ‘07 team would eek out the win in a very close game. It would either be a high scoring close game with the offenses shredding the great defenses, or it would be a low scoring game with the defenses dominating.

It’s that time of the year, the NCAA football regular season is wrapping up and the bowl game chatter has started in earnest. 

Thanks to my access to a Netflix account, my eternal boredom, and the joy that I just finished my transfer apps, I tripped on the second episode “Emancipated” of the third season of Malcolm in the Middle.

What caught my eye was Malcom’s part in the episode, the “Krelyboynes” (the smart class he is in) gets a new teacher who implements a new grading system, since the kids are expected to get ‘A’s’.

(You will need to turn the volume up on your computer as the audio level on all of the videos are pretty low.)

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/4/-JYfvjZQlGk

Does the ranking board the teacher uses look familiar?

Thought so.

So all of the kids know they are smart, but now they have the challenge set before then to see who is the “smartest.”

In the BCS everybody know who the top tier teams are, you have the four or five schools that are around the top every year then there are the few teams that are expected to do good but the program might not have the prestige.

So now you have the really good schools ranked at the top at the start of the season, but then you have the schools, like Boise State, who are good, but know they have to do something amazing to have a chance to play in a bowl game against the elite teams.

Back to the classroom we go, now that the kids have had the challenge set before them every class assignment they do as much possible to improve their ranking and hope their answer doesn’t knock them down in the rankings.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/3/4fWkvf7ocU4

When a big school like Alabama loses to another big school in LSU, the loss doesn’t hurt them as much, as seen when the first two boys make arguments and only drop one spot. But then when one of the teams has an upset loss against an unranked team their ranking takes a big hit as seen by the last boy who drops nine spots.

Now, that the season has got underway and teams have settled into where they should be ranked, unless being upset, each team has to put up big gaudy numbers and performances to convince they are an even better team.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/2/YuhV4uJBc1c

Now teams are in the “lets score 70 points against a FBS school, so the fact that we played a FBS school is ignored.”

After that stage, the BCS now finally judges what we have accomplished this season stage, where all the upsets, 70 point games and conference championship games come into play. But not before one team shows off one last time and drives all the other schools crazy—we are looking at you Alabama.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/1/4dyuhaAJrIQ

After the BCS announces that LSU and Alabama will play in the National Championship game everybody goes crazy, because we all know Alabama shouldn’t be in the game.

http://www.youtube.com/user/matthewslagle1?feature=guide#p/u/0/aWgrAUOizDk

Now the question is, when are we going to break the system? Is this the year Oklahoma State rolls around in the mud because they feel they should have been chosen to play in the National Championship game?

It’s only a matter of time before the 23 schools in the top 25 that didn’t make the National Championship game realize there is a better way to find out who the best school ion the country is.

Just look at FCS football, they know how to do things.

They use a 20 team playoff, with 10 conferences champions getting a automatic bid.

If only…