One of your humble Blog Goliard’s personal categories that helps him make sense of the world is: “things that are very good, yet still wildly overrated”.

It can be a tricky category to maintain and explain. When we try to argue that something is wildly overrated, people can automatically presume that we’re saying they’re mediocre or bad. But even excellent things can be overrated and overpraised, and it can skew our perception. Absolutely anything human, from the greatest to the humblest, can be overhyped.

As a big college football fan, my current Exhibit A in this category should come as no surprise. It is none other than Florida’s Tim Tebow.