While the Broncos Chase Peyton Manning, Tim Tebow is Being Tim Tebow

There is no doubt that last football season Tim Tebow brought more attention, good and bad, to the Denver Broncos than any team had seen in a long time! As a Bronco fan it was easy to root for him, but even non-Bronco fans found themselves cheering for Tebow because of the way he carries himself through life. So now that the Broncos seem to be trying to replace Tebow for the time being with Peyton Manning, one cant help but wonder what Tebow is up to. It shouldn’t surprise anyone, Tebow is doing what he does best of all… Being a good human!

After all the hard work Tim Tebow has put into being a starting quarterback in the NFL, to have rumors swirling that it could again be taken from him would defiantly be hard to swallow. It would be easy to sit at home, out of the public eye, or do the opposite, publicly disagree with what the Broncos are doing, but that just isn’t Tim Tebow. He has positive, life changing things on his agenda.

That is exactly what the Broncos quarterback was up to this weekend. Tebow was in Tampa, Florida visiting 4-year-old Preston Winslow. Preston has acute myeloid leukemia, or AML. Diagnosed in 2010, he stopped responding to treatment last month, his parents said. On Saturday, for a few hours at least, Tebow helped them forget. In town to host a training event for members of D1, a sports facility he co-owns in north Tampa, Tebow spent some time on an indoor field with Preston.

When the Winslows learned the doctors could do no more for Preston, they made the decision to have fun. “We’ve decided not to ruin the time we have left by being down,” James Winslow said. Tim Tebow became part of that. Several of the Winslows’ friends contacted Tebow’s agent and team repeatedly, hoping for a chance to connect him with Preston. A couple of weeks ago, Preston received a call from Tebow. He offered the family tickets to a Broncos football game next season. Celeste Winslow had to decline. The timing wouldn’t work, she told him. So Tebow invited them to Tampa for Saturday’s D1 event.

“It was better than we expected,” James Winslow said. “He spent so much time with us and was so personable.” Preston, wearing his Broncos Tebow jersey with a newly acquired signature on the back, said he had fun. “He’s usually very shy,” James Winslow said. “But he opened right up to him.”

Tim Tebow may take a spot on the bench or even be traded next season, but it is things like he did this weekend that will make me always be a Tim Tebow fan!