Tim Tebow is a football player very well-known for his Christian beliefs. And recently, he has begun to get some flack in the media for silent prayers after scoring a touchdown and for other public displays of his faith. You’ll recall that he filmed an ad for Focus on the Family that took a very powerful stand against abortion that aired during the Super Bowl. On Reliable Sources today, Howard Kurtz examined media coverage of Tebow and how much of it was being influenced by religion as opposed to sports.

It was the last sketch of the night, but Tim Tebow finally made his highly anticipated appearance, closing out one of the most solid episodes of Saturday Night Live in recent memory. Taran Killam, playing Tebow (and helping to settle a bet on sister site Sportsgrid), was interrupted by his personal hero Jesus during a standard locker room pep talk. Jesus, played by Jason Sudeikis, was not as enamored with Tebow as Tebow was with him.

It seems that Tim Tebow, the football person who really likes to talk about God, has finally made it– he’s getting his own sketch on Saturday Night Live tonight, if this AP report on the program is any indication. The report, on tonight’s program hosted by SNL alum Jimmy Fallon and hosting musical guest Michael Bublé, reports that the studio was being prepared for a sketch mocking the over-the-top religious displays of the famous player.

Every time Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow scores a touchdown, he drops to one knee and bows his head to his hand, a phenomenon that has come to be known as “Tebowing.” It’s sparked a nationwide craze, much like the equally-annoying Planking movement from this summer. But a group of Long Island high schoolers have found out the hard way that Tebowing isn’t always without consequences.

Rick Perry may have delivered the line of the night when he compared himself to Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow during Thursday’s Iowa debate, hosted by Fox News. Moderator Neil Cavuto asked the Texas governor about his lackluster debate skills and how he would fare going up against an accomplished debater in President Obama.

Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow has gone meta. It’s no longer annoying for Tebow to praise Jesus after interviews, or take a knee after a touchdown as a tribute to God. It’s now become tedious to have to listen to commentators and analysts talk about how other people are annoyed over Tebow’s antics. Megyn Kelly brought in Fox News analyst Bernie Goldberg on Wednesday to talk about the phenomenon, and, while Goldberg made some solid points about the reaction, he managed to steer the interview a little bit off the rails at one point.

Football player Tim Tebow found himself the center of tonight’s conversation on Hannity‘s Great American Panel, but despite his football and Christian credentials– both things that make him a positive figure in Sean Hannity‘s eyes– he did not escape getting a tongue-lashing from someone in the panel: Bob Beckel, who found the conflation of faith and football “despicable.”

If, during the day today, you’ve gone on any liberal blog, or comedy site, or Reddit, or Tumblr, or Twitter, or, well, basically any part of the Internet that isn’t actively owned by the Republican Party, chances are good that you’ve seen the Fox Business Network clip of Eric Bolling and Dan Gainor accusing The Muppets of promoting a liberal agenda. It’s not surprising why the clip has had such legs. First off, it’s funny. I mean, The Muppets? Really? More importantly though, it seems to play into every single negative assumption people have about Fox News. It’s practically a pre-written SNL segment.

However, if Bolling didn’t like looking like a parody of himself, he didn’t show it a few hours later on The Five when he began complaining that the show had gone too long without attacking President Obama.

In his last New Rule of the evening, Bill Maher argued that Christian populism and anti-intellectualism have been steadily growing in the Republican party, and that one of the core beliefs of the religious right in America today is that “knowing things has become an affront to the all-knowing.” Maher decided if the Republican party wanted to nominate a devoutly Christian candidate, they might as well nominate Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

The life and times of Sarah Palin are about to get the middle school library treatment. Christian book publisher Zondervan is planning to add the former Alaska governor to their childhood biography series meant to feature role models “motivated primarily by their Christian faith,” announcing the release of “Speaking Up: The Sarah Palin Story” planned for September.

Dick Ebersol has angered ESPN executives for taking a public shot at the network’s decision to feature a grainy cell phone video with a slurring Jerry Jones criticizing the professional prospects of college star Tim Tebow (that was previously published on Deadspin.)

The Denver Broncos stunned the NFL last night by picking quarterback Tim Tebow 25th overall in the league’s draft. Prepare for Tebow mania.

The NFL Draft is on tonight on ESPN, and for the first time, the opening round will be shown in prime time. The timing of the event is a testament to the league’s dominance. Both the NBA and NHL have actual playoff games tonight, but that won’t matter, because more people will watch commissioner Roger Goodell read names off a list than actual games.

Glenn Beck opened his show today with a quick review of two of last night’s most talked-about Super Bowl ads. Namely, Tim Tebow and Betty White. But the ad that really got under Beck’s skin was the $2.5 million Census advertisement paid for by the U.S. government. Money wasted!

Uncontroversial, that is, in terms of what is shown and what is literally said. When it comes to coded language, connotation and sponsorship, though, the ad is exactly the spark plug it promised to be. The Tebow Story is, of course, the work of Focus on the Family, the controversial evangelical nonprofit, and comes along with the tag line “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life™.” The intentions are clear to anyone paying attention, but the commercial itself is beyond tame. The spot never mentions abortion or public policy at all – on screen, it’s just sweet family goodness.

CBS has decided to run the Tim Tebow pro-life Superbowl ad! Hooray for free speech! Oh, wait — apparently that only applies to pro-life ads featuring handsome football players wearing Bible-verse makeup. Because CBS has now REJECTED the scary Mancrunch ad featuring two football fans realizing they leurve each other and making out furiously.

When I first brought up Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad with Focus on the Family a month ago, I probably should have staked out that I thought it would become a big deal.

Yesterday, we carried a story about CBS’s precedent-upending decision to run a “pro-life” advocacy ad by Focus on the Family during the Super Bowl. The ad is to feature Tim Tebow – the Heisman award-winning QB renowned, among other things, for his habit of quoting Hebrews with his eye-black. In it, Tim and his mother recount, allegedly without visible embarrassment, the saga of Tim’s conception, career as a fetus, and birth. You will be slightly less than astounded to learn that news of the ad has gone over very well with some, and very badly with others.

The Super Bowl story of the week, overshadowing the miraculous rise of the New Orleans Saints, is the brewing controversy over the approval by CBS of a 30 second ad sponsored by Focus on the Family to be played during the fourth quarter of the Feb. 7 game. The ad will feature University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mom talking about the fact that she was encouraged by doctors to abort the pregnancy that resulted in Tim’s birth.

CBS and many other networks have longstanding policies not to air “advocacy” commercials, which provoke viewers to take and possibly even discuss (yikes) their stances on public issues. This Super Bowl Sunday, however, be prepared to be prosthelytized. Abortion’s got the ball.

Though we came very close to a television doomsday, Time Warner and Fox parent company News Corporation reached a last minute deal that prevented a blackout of Fox stations on the cable service, the New York Times is reporting. A breakthrough in negotiations prevented a blackout of Fox channels on Time Warner cable as the two companies battled over subscriber prices, setting the stage for television’s “economic template for the future.”

Tim Tebow is magic. Football magic, yes – but also media magic, Internet magic and advertising magic.