LSU fans flooded Tim Tebow’s cell phone

October 10th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

The World of Tim Tebow has not been quite as magical these last two weeks as Florida lost consecutive games. (I would have thought they would never lose with him at the helm.) But alas, we have had to deal with the fact that maybe Tebow is a mere mortal. However, that doesn’t been after LSU fans got his cell phone number last week and bombarded him with calls, he let it affect him at all.

“His friends took his cell phone and the calls and messages would come in faster than they could erase them,” said Tebow’s father, Bob. “How many messages can you erase in a minute? They came in faster than that.”

Tebow called the ordeal “an interesting experience, just handling it all,” Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported.

But he said it was not too much.

After scoring a touchdown in Baton Rouge, Tebow put his hand to his helmet and taunted the crowd, as if to say, “Call me now.” He said it was all in good fun.

“They were having fun with me, so I was having fun with them, too,” he said. “It’s what college football is all about. It’s just fun, and I had fun with it. I know it probably got under their skin a little bit.”

Asked what the messages from the fans said, he replied, “I don’t use that type of language too much, so I can’t tell you. Some people did take it way too far, farther than you should take it with sports. But I think for the most part people were just having fun.”

Some of the calls included threats.

“There was some stuff like that, but I didn’t worry about it or think about it,” Tebow said. “I didn’t even think it was that big of a deal.”

Remember last week when that high school quarterback got threats to his cell phone and the police got involved? Pssh. Tim Tebow does not roll that way. He merely sees it as fun and games, homie. If only we all had such an agreeable disposition.

{Via Fark.}

Like asking Jesus not to heal

September 5th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

We like Tim Tebow because he does ridiculous things quarterbacks are not supposed to do. For example, he runs people over and screams at them when any normal quarterback would, say, dive and whimper. Eli Manning has never screamed at anyone in his life.

So it’s probably good that a run-in with some angry Hilltoppers this weekend taught Tebow and his coaches a lesson:

The Hilltoppers drew two personal foul flags for hitting Tebow after he went out of bounds. On the second penalty, WKU’s Cody Hughes, who wasn’t in the game at the time, appeared to hit Tebow with a forearm shiver.

“I was surprised a guy stands up on the bench and takes a shot at your quarterback,” Meyer said Monday. “I was disappointed in that.”

Tebow drifted to the sideline more often Saturday than he bowled over linebackers for extra yardage. The strategy pleased his coaches, though Tebow is no longer sure it’s the way to go.
“He got a piece of me, that’s for sure,” Tebow said Saturday.

For those of you not phrased in theology, allow me to translate: do not attempt to restrain The Tebow. His will is God’s, his abilities deigned to perform in a silly little game you mortals refer to as “foot-ball,” and he will not be restricted by anything but his own choice. Tebow will play this game as Tebow wishes, and Tebow’s coaches and legions of panty-dropping fans will thus learn to accept Tebow’s mortal form as a gift to be honored.

We’re going to have a lot of fun with this in the next four months. I can feel it.

Well, that was easy

January 9th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanE

Relatively speaking, it’s late in the day (about 3 or so), I’ve been locked down for various unimportant and stupid reasons (including the late hour at which I retired last night), and I haven’t blogged a word about the National Championship Game yet. Since I’m deathly afraid R is going to take away my blogging license, here were a few things I noticed about the Fiesta Bowl, in no particular order:

Florida won. Well, yeah, they did. I mean, that was really something. They had better playcalling, better planning, even better players on both sides of the ball. And once Ginn went out with the injury, it looked like Smith had no answer for the Florida secondary, no one to push the boundaries on where he could deliver the football.

Wait a second - Florida won! Far more surprising than the win itself, I think, is its indefatigable nature. From about the middle of the second quarter onward, everyone at my bar knew the deal. The Florida fans were cheering every first down, and the Ohio State fans were slumped over in their Miller Lites, babbling into their buffalo french fries. There was no doubt in anyone’s mind.

Urban Meyer is a much better football mind than Jim Tressel. Or at least more imaginative. But where part of last night’s win was a function of Florida’s superior athleticism, a major part served the realization that you really, really don’t want to play Urban Meyer if he has a month to sit in a dark room and draw plays.

I worship Tim Tebow. What a monster. I can’t wait to see him loosed against the SEC for 12 full games next year. Ho, boy.

Troy Smith is overrated? One bad game is one bad game, but still … Vince Young made a killing in the draft over his National Championship performance (Wonderlic test scores aside), and Smith is the type of quarterback - i.e., not the “prototype” most scouts look for - that needed more amazing in-game tape to help his draft chances. Now, do you see him getting drafted higher than the end of first round?