I’m a left-handed person, and as a left-handed person, I have had to adapt to the world around me.

It’s a right-handed world we live in. The population of left-handed people around the globe is somewhere between 10-20 percent, depending on which link you decide to click on. But no matter which hand you slice the numbers with, there aren’t many lefties in the world.

When you narrow the discussion down to the NFL and the number of left-handed quarterbacks in the league, the percentages are almost zero.

There are two left-handed quarterbacks in the NFL, as we speak. One is an emerging superstar. I’m talking about Miami Dolphins quarterback, Tua Tagovailoa. The other is Holton Ahlers…actually, he’s a rookie from East Carolina who only made it to the Seahawks practice squad and is currently a free agent.

Not even good enough for Seattle’s practice squad.

That’s the life of a left-handed quarterback.

While other sports–OK, baseball–value left-handed players, football shuns them, or at least it shuns left-handed quarterbacks. It’s perfectly fine to be a left-handed receiver, just don’t be a left-handed quarterback throwing to a receiver. Why? According to former receiver, Reggie Wayne, the ball rotates in the opposite direction, which can be off-putting. Seriously, what does Reggie Wayne know? OK, he knows a good bit, but the rotation of the spiral? I mean, come on. Adapt, Reggie. Lefties have to do it all the time.

Unfortunately, the majority rules in life, and another reason there aren’t many left-handed quarterbacks is because coaches don’t know how to work with them properly, nor do they know how to devise game plans for them. If you have a lefty quarterback, every play has to be designed in the opposite direction. Also, a right tackle is responsible for protecting a lefty’s blindside.

It’s all different. Maybe that’s why Jon Gruden once said to Chris Simms, son of Phil and a former lefty quarterback, “You’re a lefty; you’re a pain in the ass. I have to call the formation the other way for you so you can roll to your left.”

Geez, sorry for the inconvenience.

Steve Young, a Hall of Fame lefty quarterback, was moved to safety during his freshman year at BYU because his then-offensive coordinator refused to work with him.

Thankfully, the close-minded OC was gone the next year, and the rest, as they say, is history.

That brings me back to Tua. When he started his first game as a rookie in 2020, he became the first left-handed quarterback to do so in the NFL since Kellen Moore in 2015. Holy cow, that’s a long, long time.

According to research, only 33 left-handed quarterbacks have thrown passes in the entire 100-plus-year history of the National Football League.

That’s way less than 10-20 percent.

If you research the list of left-handed quarterbacks throughout the history of the NFL, you’ll find that it’s a who’s not of mediocre players.

In other words, there aren’t many great ones on the list.

Young is one of them. Ken Stabler, who won a Super Bowl with the Raiders in 1976 and was posthumously elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016, was another.

Young became the second left-handed starting quarterback to win a Lombardi when he helped the 49ers defeat the Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX.

Boomer Esiason, the 1988 NFL MVP, would have been the second lefty to win a Lombardi, but a right-handed touchdown pass by Joe Montana in the final seconds of Super Bowl XXIII ruined that.

Michael Vick was an NFL superstar before, well, you know.

Mark Brunell had a pretty accomplished career. Jim Zorn was a nice guy who was best friends with Steve Largent.

Tim Tebow was a notable left-handed quarterback, but he was notable because he was Tim Tebow, not because he was a good left-handed quarterback.

Look, what I’m trying to say is that we lefties really need Tua to come through in the playoffs this year. The Dolphins are 10-4 and closing in on their first AFC East title since 2008. For his part, Tagovailoa has completed 325 of 458 passes for 3,921 yards, 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Those are MVP numbers. Unfortunately, Tagovailoa isn’t among the favorites to win the award, while Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are.

Why? Probably anti-lefty bias.

If Tagovailoa leads the Dolphins to a Super Bowl title, he’ll have done something that not even the legendary Dan Marino could accomplish in Miami.

Also, the NFL is a copycat league. It’s a mirroring league, if you will. Can you imagine what a Tua trip to Disney World could do for all of those lefty quarterbacks out there who are just looking for a chance to show NFL coaches what they can do?

Lefties don’t have to play safety. They don’t have to play receiver. They don’t even have to switch sports and become a lefty specialist out of the bullpen (even though those guys make great money. I mean, holy cow, talk about shifting the balance of power in the other direction).

Lefties can play quarterback in the NFL, and they can do it at a high level.

We’re all with you, Tua! At least those of us who also have a hard time using scissors.