BY: ALEX BOGACH

At this point, considering the fact that the NBA’s most hated team and God’s favorite quarterback are the most polarizing topics in sports, this is a column made in page view heaven. It’s probably good for site traffic when your column format is: What does Extremely Polarizing Quarterback have to do with Extremely Polarizing Basketball Team.

But I’ve actually found an interesting parallel between these two never-ending, heated and Skip Bayless sized argumentative topics. There are major differences. First and foremost being that some believe Tebow (facetiously, for the most part) is the son of Christ while a certain NBA owner may associate LeBron and the Heat with the word anti-Christ, of course, written in Comic Sans type.

However, the main connection between the Heat and Tebow is simply inexplicability. Both Miami and Tebow share between them a complete mysteriousness. Both defy explanation. Both cannot be predicted.

The Broncos’ mysteriousness is self-explanatory. Tim Tebow seems to lack everything that a quarterback should have but seems to make it up with unexplainable intangibles.

OK, give the Denver defense, Willis McGahee and Matt Prater some credit but Tebow has made plays for the Broncos. And you have to remember that when their defense, McGahee and Prater played with Kyle Orton leading the way they went 1-4.

Tebow threw for 316 yards and two touchdowns last weekend against Pittsburgh.

And when it seemed like Tebow magic had run out, he put his best performance together this Sunday against the vaunted Pittsburgh passing defense. It’s this sports movie plotline that’s making Tebow so unpredictable. But what’s more irrational is that it seems like “because it looks like a sports movie” is now becoming an explanation for Tebow’s successes.

And then there’s the Heat. While the Heat are far more predictable now an element of uncertainty rests hauntingly on the horizon. The Golden State Warriors beat the Heat on Wednesday as proof of that.

Every single statistic, metric and basketball fan with two working eyes will tell you the Heat will win the championship this year. The Heat are running away with the season. LeBron looks better (if that is even possible), they added some nice low-key players in the off-season and have had the amount of attention surrounding their play shrink.

The Heat, for whatever reason, are relatively under the radar. With Chris Paul and the lockout hiding the Heat from intense media scrutiny, the Heat don’t have that night in and night out target on their backs.

But remember last year? Remember when the Heat dismantled the Bulls and Celtics? Remember when LeBron looked unstoppable? Remember when it was a foregone conclusion that the Heat were going to trample the Mavericks?

Lebron fell apart in the Finals last year averaging just 17.8 in the six game series.

Well, just like Tebow’s pass to Demaryius Thomas in overtime on Sunday, something completely unexpected happened to Miami in the Finals. LeBron looked more like Rasual Butler, Wade’s attitude and demeanor had shifted and the Heat looked like they wanted no part in raising a championship banner.

On Sunday, something unknown clicked for Tim Tebow and last June it cracked for Miami.

And while everything is pointing to a Heat championship and a biblical meltdown from Tebow this Sunday, there is an element of inexplicableness. There is this mystery surrounding both Tebow and the Heat that despite everything pointing in one direction you just have no idea what the actual outcome will be.

Everything rational I can say about football says that the Patriots will easily take down the Broncos. But if they don’t? Would I even be shocked? I don’t know if I would. At this point, NFL fans are expecting the unexpected.

Same goes for the Heat who seem hell bent on revenge from last June. But can I say it confidently after what I saw from them last June against the Mavericks. What if LeBron goes into invisible mode again? What if the Heat crack under the pressure again? After watching last year’s playoffs, isn’t it a possibility the same way a Tebow victory is this weekend?

I think the Heat will win. I think the Broncos will lose. But this is the ultimate pinnacle of sports viewing. This is why Tebow and the Heat have such appeal. They operate with such mystery and unknowingness that it’s gotten to the point where predictions are less valuable than Hedo Turkoglu’s contract and sports fans need to just simply watch and enjoy.

Because numbers, projections and analysis are useless at a time like this and we need to return to the source—the game—and take it all in. The Heat and Tebow storylines are reminders that while so many great things happen after the game, the truly remarkable moments occur within the lines.

LeBron won’t implode again and maybe Tim Tebow won’t be going to Disneyworld this February. But maybe they will. I don’t know how, but maybe they will.

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