Our weekly dispatch from the nation's foremost mustache expert.

Religion is always a perilous subject, even for a brave Mustached American. I can recall a number of personal conversations with our Lord and savior, Santa A. Claus, in which even HE got testy about me protesting HIS commandments.

The football season now lies in our rear view, and we have little else to debate other than my good looks or the potential of NFL prospects. So this week my mustache turns to Tim Tebow -- the Jesus-loving southpaw from the University of Florida with aspirations of playing the game at its highest level.

Questions abound: Will he make it as pro? If so, can he play QB? Could he really play tight end or running back? What does the "H" in Jesus H. Christ stand for?

Much of it, however, may be moot after Tebow's starring role in a dreadfully boring Super Bowl commercial this past weekend.

Unless you were at a 6 p.m. (EST) church service praying for the Super Bowl to be moved to Saturday, you probably saw the devout Christian and pro-life supporter featured with his mother, Pam, in an anti-abortion ad sponsored by Focus on the Family. This spot, of course, will now direct even more talk about Tebow (pictured above with a set of very Christian breast implants) and his faith. He'll be even more all blewed up, possibly to ESPN-fueled Brett Favre proportions, but increasingly for all the wrong reasons as far as his future employers may be concerned.

Clearly, Tebow's a man of faith and steadfast in his bare-lipped dogma. "A team that doesn't want that shouldn't take me," he told Sports Illustrated's Peter King. "Pro-life is very important to me. My mother listened to God late in her pregnancy, and if she had listened to others and terminated me, obviously I wouldn't be here.''

My question is this: Whether or not you think Tebow has the skill to succeed at the next level -- which, as of now, most agree he does not -- will this heightened focus on his religious convictions skew the conversation about Tebow among scouts and NFL executives to the point where it's unfair to him?

Could it, in fact, impact whether an NFL team takes a flier on him? Or will his complicated, protracted delivery -- not an intentional allusion to his difficult birth -- be the end of him?


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