What’s it like to be an acclaimed college All American quarterback who won the national championship in his junior year and came back with a season just as strong his senior year but after that is being snubbed by the NFL en masse, facing a prospect of being no better than a third round pick.  To answer that question perhaps its best to ask Joe Montanna.

That’s right, following winning the national championship at Notre Dame in 1977 and then tremendous heroics on the field in 1978 which included the greatest fourth quarter comeback in Cotton Bowl history the presumed NFL scouting experts dubbed Mr. Montanna’s future in pro football as pretty much a mediocre one.  So much so that every team passed on him twice and some three times.  The expertise of that year presumably decided to bank the futures of their teams with other QBs such as Jack Thompson and Steve Fuller rather than Montanna.

Quarterbacks are ultimately judged on winning.  Tebow has won.  He’s a great athlete and leader.  The teams who pass on him will be sorry.