So maybe there are plenty of reasons why New York Jets coach Rex Ryan and quarterback Tim Tebow have rubbed us the wrong way.
This is not one of them.
Courtesy of a great story written by Jenny Vrentas of The Star-Ledger, we learned late Thursday night that both Ryan and Tebow share the common bond of overcoming dyslexia to realize their NFL dreams.
Tebow, whose older brother and father are dyslexic, was diagnosed when he was in elementary school. Ryan's dyslexia, meanwhile, went undetected until he reached his 40s.
Lord knows devising and learning an NFL playbook is already so incredibly difficult without this learning disability. So with it, one can only imagine the struggle of finding a away to master football on paper.
"And that's kind of how he plays, right?" Ryan said of Tebow. "He finds a way to win. When you look at it, it might not be a traditional way, but all he does, he finds ways to win. And he certainly did that against us in Denver (last season), you know what I mean?"
The two men haven't spoken about their shared link, either, basically because neither one of them looks at their dyslexia as a big deal.
"I don't think it makes me respect him more, because I respect Coach Ryan a lot," Tebow said. "What it does is just show that learning disabilities, especially dyslexia, have nothing to do with how smart or intelligent someone is. Because there are not many minds in the NFL that are as bright or as sharp or as flexible as Coach Ryan's."
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