Letters: In Denver or New York, can Tim Tebow play?

It’s one thing to bemoan professional sports for its business-only attitude and lack of loyalty and sensitivity, but Bill Plaschke’s latest rant [March 21] is his most whiningly naive and childish ever. Despite Tim Tebow’s magical mystery tour last year, the NFL doesn’t owe him a thing. He’ll get another chance if a team believes they can win with him and not because they are unrealistically fawning in love with him as Plaschke obviously is. “Former convicts and miscreants” had jobs in the NFL because they could win. Tebow will have a job if he can win, as well.

Allan Kandel

Los Angeles

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The reason you don’t understand Bill, is because you’re clueless — at best. Fact: Tebow has virtually no skill as a quarterback. Everyone in the NFL recognizes that. You choose to ignore it — that’s your problem. You want to give Tebow a second chance? Buy an NFL team and make him your quarterback.

Ray McKown

Los Angeles

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How do you know, as you write in your article, that a football player’s skill can be born of inspiration and faith, and who cares? Religion (and the bible) are concerned about good deeds, not football games and quarterback-engineered comebacks. How ridiculous this has all become, and you foster it with your article. Tim Tebow is an NFL quarterback and football player with many years left. Let’s evaluate him as such. God will evaluate him as a person at the end of his life, as it should be. Please keep your stories about sports.

Michael H. Miller

Los Angeles

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Not sure what the latest reality show — also called the New York Jets — expects to accomplish by trading for Tim Tebow. They might want to get more tension and division in the locker room, raise Rex Ryan’s blood pressure or a quarterback controversy the first time Mark Sanchez throws an interception with Jet Nation calling for a change at quarterback.

Jets management must know that the all recent Super Bowl winners have had a brilliant quarterback with a big arm. Guys like Tom Brady, both Mannings, Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees, Troy Aikman, Ben Roethlisberger, Brett Favre and Kurt Warner are prototypical NFL quarterbacks that win Super Bowls, Tim Tebow is not.

Matthew D. Kerster

Gardena

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The Broncos’ upgrade at quarterback from Tim Tebow to Peyton Manning is roughly equivalent to swapping your prom date from Roseanne Barr to Megan Fox. They are both women; but the similarities end there. Broncos receivers will be in for quite a shock when footballs arrive on time and with more velocity than a Jamie Moyer fastball. Best of luck to Tebow in his future endeavors. I hope he does not sustain any serious injuries holding a clipboard.

Mark S. Roth

Los Angeles

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If anyone thinks that Peyton Manning is a good fit playing in Denver — outdoor stadium, cold weather, poor playoff record in games with the temperature under 40 degrees, and coming off extensive neck surgery — then Tom Thumb’s sneakers are a good fit for Bob Lanier’s feet!

Marc Popkin

Los Angeles

Bounty hunters

Going by the Saints’ bounty system, I’m wondering what the Tampa Bay player who took out Sean Payton on the sidelines last season, breaking his leg, would have gotten.

Patrick Cervantes

Eagle Rock

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Regarding the Saints and the bounty system, Roger Goodell should remember that the Super Bowl trophy is named after the man who said, “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.”

Richard Parker

Pasadena

On the court

The Laker Nation should give thanks to the resident village idiot of the NBA, Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who single-handedly killed the Lakers’ Chris Paul trade, unwittingly kept the Lakers’ Big Three together for the foreseeable future, and gift-wrapped the point guard the Lakers have so desperately needed for years, Ramon Sessions, who will be a top 10 (or better) point guard in the league for the next six or seven years, or more.

Tom Lallas

Los Angeles

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Apparently Bill Plaschke [March 23] is unfamiliar with concept of comparing apples to oranges. Miami and Oklahoma City both pursued Derek Fisher because he provides championship leadership and pedigree, qualities that both teams lack. The Lakers have no such problem. On the flip side, the Lakers sorely lack team speed and quickness. The Heat and Thunder have no such problem.

Maury Benemie

Corona

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Multiple-choice question for Lakers beat writer Mike Bresnahan: The definition of a “no-brainer” is:

(a) The Lakers’ plan to execute their option on Andrew Bynum.

(b) Bynum high-fiving fans after being ejected.

Bob Ginn

Arcadia

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If Lakers are intent on reducing their payroll, I’d bet Kobe would go across hall to Clippers to win his sixth ring.

Ben Eisner

Westlake Village

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At the beginning of the season, some analyst said that the Clippers have two years to persuade Chris Paul to stay in L.A. as a Clipper. Ominous quote from Paul before the New Orleans game: “This is becoming embarrassing.”

Bad news: CP3 may be gone after next year. Good news: Clipper Darrell may return. Best news: Order will be restored to the L.A. universe!

David Waldowski

Alta Loma

Training wheels

So, Danica Patrick has decided “to focus more on the learning process” than where she finishes each competition. Isn’t this what Anna Kournikova said about her tennis career, while she continued to profit from sponsors willing to overlook a lack of talent for a pretty face?

Mario Valvo

Rancho Mirage

Getting a buzz

There’s too much money at stake for Major League Baseball to really do anything about its alcohol problems. Banning beer in the clubhouse is a step in the right direction. But I’m more concerned about the guy in front of me who has downed four or five large beers and has become more belligerent with each passing inning. Let’s see baseball do something about that.

Oh, wait. Silly me. That would affect profits and we can’t have that, can we?

Rich Rudy

San Diego

Feeling blue

So T.J. Simers believes the Dodgers were terrible last year. In fact, they were over .500, which is usually not associated with the word terrible. The irony of T.J. is his belief that sports are fun and games, not to be taken too seriously, unless of course you don’t win every game.

Steve Owen

San Diego

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An unsolicited thought for the soon-to-be-selected new Dodgers owner.

I’m taking the liberty of speaking for all Dodgers fans. We all know that professional sports are expensive. Heck, we’ve been paying through the nose for years. But when it comes to generating additional income through stadium naming rights, please, don’t do it. Really. Don’t even think about it. You’re going to do just fine. Look, if Frank McCourt can screw things up so badly and still manage to find a way to get out with a profit, you’ll do OK. Just leave the name of the stadium alone. Don’t believe me? Ask a Yankee fan for their opinion.

You want to sell naming rights? OK, change the name of Dodger Dogs to Lipitor Dogs.

We stayed away last year because management didn’t respect the fans. Please don’t allow history to repeat itself.

Mike Kichaven

Sherman Oaks

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With apologies to my fellow Brooklyn Dodgers devotees and in honor of the soon-to-be-ex-owner, what about “Debits Field?”

Kenny Wolin

Studio City

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