Quote of the Day

“Before I let Tebow go, I asked him if anyone after the game — coaches, players, execs — had said anything memorable to him. ‘Everybody was happy,” he said, ‘but I’ll tell you one thing that happened during the week that I remember … ‘

“Good, I thought. John Fox, maybe, sidling up to him and saying something sportingly profound like, ‘Son, we’re going to ride that left arm and those legs to the Super Bowl.’

”’… I had an opportunity to talk with a kid named Blake Appleton, from Florida, on Thursday. He’s a leukemia patient who’s just been moved to hospice. And after the game, when I was being interviewed on TV, I got to say his name. That’s what I’m proud of today. I let him know people cared about him. I let him know God has a plan for him.’”