The live version of “The Sound of Music” got a lot of press, tweets and Facebooks. I didn’t watch the broadcast, but I couldn’t help inferring that musical theatre fans thought of this event the way football fans view a BCS bowl game. Thus, I decided to parse the reviews, tweets and posts about this Carrie Underwood version of “The Sound of Music” and match the actors with well-known quarterbacks.

Carrie Underwood was apparently Tim Tebow, plucky and earnest but not universally accepted as “ready for the big time.” If you dislike Tebow, use Blaine Gabbert in this comparison instead. Like Carrie Underwood, Tebow and Gabbert are talented but not showing the desired results because they’re not in roles suitable for their abilities and background. Of course, both Gabbert and Tebow — like Underwood — have naysayers that pan them as just no good.

Stephen Moyer in “True Blood” is Johnny Manziel’s 2012 A&M season: amazing, beloved, worthy of accolades. Stephen Moyer in “The Sound of Music” is Manziel’s 2013 A&M season: not as strong, and certainly not better than his predecessors, but not horrible. He’s in spots, and not commanding or confident, but certainly not abysmal, either.

Tony winners Audra McDonald as the Mother Abbess and Laura Benanti as the Baroness would be Joe Montana and/or Tom Brady: established heavyweights whose awards and years of experience as winners have shown they have the chops. Brady might be hated, but remember, those nuns and the Baroness were kind of bitchy.

The rest of the cast of the live broadcast of “The Sound of Music” was less discussed, partially because so much attention was spent talking about Underwood’s perceived weaknesses or the impressive performances by Benanti and McDonald. With that perspective in mind, the collective cast could be seen as middle-of-the-pack South Carolina quarterback Connor Shaw: decent, but not so bad or so good that he merits a lengthy discussion.

But given the circumstances, all of these players, both on the field and on the stage, are doing the best they can do. And way better than I could do as a singer. Or as a quarterback. Or as a singing quarterback.