Local Newswire "Super Fans" ode to Tebow is ready for Thursday Night Football

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or just really hate Denver Broncos football, then you’ve no doubt seen the video “Super Fans.” Created by Denver locals Justin Knodel and Zach Sheely for their production company, Zoonadu Productions, the video, set to Nicki Minaj’s “Super Bass,” is a genuine yet humorous ode to divisive replacement quarterback and self-proclaimed man of God, Tim Tebow.

“As Bronco fans, we are disappointed how the last decade has gone,” Sheely says. “The team has continued to decline, and in a sense has lost its identity. This team hasn’t really had a ‘hero’ since Elway retired. Tebow has the pedigree of a winner, and we hope he can restore a winning identity and culture to the team.”

The video took five days to complete, with the finished product being uploaded a mere 30 minutes into Tebow’s start against the Dolphins. The timing couldn’t have been more fortuitous, as that afternoon Tebow rallied the Broncos from a 15-point deficit to an improbable overtime win. Shortly afterward, the video’s popularity skyrocketed, beginning with an appearance on Vic Lombardi’s Channel 4 evening news spot. By Monday night it had reached 12,000 hits, and the duo knew they had created something big.

“The next day was crazy,” Knodel says. “A bunch of blogs and online [sources] were posting about it, and ESPN put me on their morning Hot Clicks, and local sports radio stations were playing it all day. By the end of that night, we went from 12,000 to about 55,000 hits, and it was all over Twitter with a bunch of NFL players tweeting it to their followers.”

Write-ups about the video in The Washington Post and the Detroit Free Press followed (with the latter owing to the Broncos’ game against the Lions). By Friday, the video was featured on Fox 31, which prompted an interview with Knodel and Sheely, where Knodel insists his “chin stole the show.”

The Lions’ decimation of Tebow and the rest of the Broncos prompted the video’s popularity to wane, but in the two weeks since it’s been released, the video has garnered almost 80,000 hits, and opened up opportunities for Zoonadu Productions, including postgame access to the Broncos’ locker room for interviews and free access to a club in Colorado Springs to shoot a music video.

So what’s next for “Super Fans”?

“I think as long as the media keeps talking about Tebow, our video will keep getting hits,” Knodel says. “I’m hoping we win the division, because if we do that a major network might air a spot on Tebow Mania before a playoff game and briefly show our video, and that could get us in the millions.”