For some fans, 'Tebow Fatigue' already seems to be taking hold

The BCS Championship Game is always my latest work night of the season -- especially the one year out of four when it's played in the Eastern time zone.

As myself, Andy Staples and a couple of other writers waited outside Dolphin Stadium at 3:30 a.m. last Friday for the shuttle bus back to our hotel, our conversation turned from the game we just watched to the landscape heading into next season. Mainly, we talked about how loaded Florida would be if Tim Tebow returned for his senior season.

"There's only one negative about him coming back," I told my fellow writers. "You just know 'Tebow Fatigue' is going to set in with fans around the country."

As it turns out, it's already happened.

Dear Stewart, Why does Tim Tebow have to come back? I have to listen to commentators babble about him for another whole season now. -- Matt Schlichting, Winter Park, Fla.

Can we put a moratorium on the Tebow loving that is going on for a moment? It is one thing to fawn over him as nearly everyone does. I get it -- good player, seemingly a good person, on a good team. But some are already putting him on the pantheon of "all-time greats?" Let us step away for a moment and breathe a little bit. Perhaps you, who I usually consider fair and balanced in the face of hoopla and hype, can give some direction on his stature in the world of college football. -- Chris, Irvine, Calif.

I did not see the Fox telecast of the game, but I've read a great number of accounts complaining about the over-the-top Tebow fawning by announcers Thom Brennamen and Charles Davis. It's hard for me to comment on something I didn't hear, but I do know from watching some of Fox's other BCS broadcasts that its announcers seem to treat the games as if the people watching them haven't seen either of the teams play all season (which may, in fact, be true of themselves). While the title game does draw a great number of casual viewers, I can see where that would be redundant to those of you who already know Tebow's story frontward and backward.

That being said, unless those guys inferred Tebow literally does leap over tall buildings in a single bound, I'm guessing everything they said is absolutely true.

One of the more bothersome trends I've noticed among college fans in recent years is the inevitable backlash occurring toward pretty much any great team or player as soon as people feel said team/player receives too much "hype." Rather than celebrate a player's greatness, we feel the need to tear him down.

Why do we do this?