Long Live Timmy Tebow!!!!!!!

• vball10set

  bamagirl wrote: Like I said you can hate him on the field all you want...(I am doing plenty of that this week)
  
  But off the field you have the give the guy credit for his character. He really is a genuinely good guy, and I think it's sad that so many people are rooting for him to fail. We need some good guys in this world.

  why,just last week I was saying the same thing about Tiger Woods
• Tiernan

  ^^^
  Good one Bama...TT will F-up somewhere down the road and it will be sweet to watch the carnage.
• bamagirl

  vball10set wrote:

  bamagirl wrote: Like I said you can hate him on the field all you want...(I am doing plenty of that this week)
  
  But off the field you have the give the guy credit for his character. He really is a genuinely good guy, and I think it's sad that so many people are rooting for him to fail. We need some good guys in this world.

  why,just last week I was saying the same thing about Tiger Woods

  Awwe well lucky for me I never was a Tiger fan
  
  
  
  

  Tiernan wrote: ^^^
  Good one Bama...TT will F-up somewhere down the road and it will be sweet to watch the carnage.

  Prime example of what I am saying. For some reason people just cannot stand someone who actually is going out there and doing good...it is like they either simply don't want to believe it or it bothers them that someone is doing something more than them...which it is I do not know. Either way he is a good guy....and I hope we kick his butt come Saturday
• Cha'DIch

  Tim Tebow is possibly the most overrated player in history. There are a lot of players at Florida who are trying to win their third national championship, yet all people ever talk about his Tebow, who was a backup on that team. The greatest player ever should have been able to beat out Chris Leak.
  As far as winning the Heisman, he wasn't even the best player in his conference that year, Darren McFadden was, and if he didn't get hurt Dennis Dixon had a good chance of winning it that year. Florida lost four games that year, including a bowl game in Florida to Michigan, who was coached by lame-duck head coach Lloyd Carr, and the Wolverines lost to Appalachian State at home to start the season.
  Last year, Percy Harvin was the best offensive player for the Gators against the Sooners, and Florida's defense made several key stops in defeating Oklahoma. There were a lot of teams with one loss last year who didn't get to play for the national title, and two teams, Boise State and Utah who were undefeated and got snubbed. The Broncos didn't even make a BCS Bowl.
  This season, Tebow's numbers are down, and the Gators really haven't beaten anyone. Their best win is against three-loss LSU.
  Tebow is football's version of Tyler Hansbrough.
• jpake1

  

  Tebow isn't the best player IMO. To be determined if he is the most productive. There are a lot of ways to determine how great a player is. Everybody seems to have their own logic. If there was a college draft of all the greats, who would be your #1. I think that is what would determine my #1. It certainly wouldn't be Tim. Still one hell of a gamer.
• cologino

  Tim Tebow is the truth. He is a baller and he wins. All of this garbage about their defense did this and that....and this team was undefeated and blah blah blah...just hate. Also, you can not compare a running back to a qb...Tebow touches the ball every play, he has a much greater impact than a great running back does....Harvin is gone and they still win...it's not all him but watch what happens when he is done. Lastly, "he won't be a good pro" is the what people say when they have a hard time finding flaws...he is still in college, judge him on that.
• ytownfootball

  

  cologino wrote: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah...Blah blah..Blah ba blah baba blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah ba ba blah!...he is still in college, judge him on that.

  What the hell for? The freakin media has already told us 2,087,384 times how we should judge him. That's the whole point. We're tired of the medias knob slobbin' the guy and expecting everyone else to also.
• ironman02

  Interesting numbers presented in the original post. I think college football has certainly seen better players than Tim Tebow, but that doesn't change the fact that he has had a great college career. He'll be a legend at Florida and I'm sure most college football fans will hold him in high regard forever.
  
  I feel like the media tries to portray Tebow as the greatest player ever because he's a likeable person who does a lot of things off the field, in addition to being a great player on the field. The media obsession with him has reached unbearable proportions, and frankly, it's disgusting in a way. I almost can't handle listening to Verne Lundquist and Gary Danielson do Florida games. Thank God I only have to deal with those two jokers for one more Tebow game! I think college football fans (those who aren't UF fans) would be much more receptive to Tebow if the media didn't obsess over him and force-feed him to the audience every Saturday. When Verne Lundquist starts reading bible verses during a broadcast, and Gary Danielson openly roots for Tebow to complete a "jump pass" to go out the "right way", that's just going a little too far. Danielson has even called Tebow the "QB you would most want your daughter to marry". Are you kidding me?
  
  Tebow is a great college player, and may end up being successful in some capacity in the NFL, but I'm honestly glad that he only has two games left at Florida. I'm not sure I can handle much more, and it's sad that many people feel the same way I do because of the media's role in painting Tebow as the greatest player/person in the history of college football.
  
  Finally, one last point. How can you possibly declare someone the "greatest leader to ever play college football"? How does someone quantify that? Wouldn't you have had to be in the practice or locker room of every football team in history to say that someone is a better leader than everyone else? Even then, what makes someone on another team that's vocal and supportive of his team any worse of a leader than Tebow? There are plenty of guys who show leadership, play hard, support their teammates on and off the field, and put up great numbers on the field as well. It just baffles me when someone says that Tim Tebow is definitively the greatest leader in the history of college football. Maybe he is, or maybe he isn't, but how the hell can anyone possibly know?
• ytownfootball

  

  Good post i02...
  
  Just a little illustration to quantify your assertion.
  
  My better half and her mother who have ZERO interest in the game happened to be in the room when my father-in-law and I were attmpting to watch the Florida game last week. The Bible verses, the marry your daughter crap, all audible. Honest to Jesus if my wife and mother-in-law didn't pick up on it (they weren't watching at all), and ask "Who the hell is Tim Tebow, that's all they're talking about!" I lost it. They couldn't believe how much the announcers pawned over a football player...it was too much for them, they went in the kitchen. True Story.
• Speedofsand

  

  I totally agree Verne and Gary suck, and plenty more Gator fans will agree. I'm lucky I only had to put up with them on road games. The Noles and Gators both are shown on Sunsports tv down here. They show both teams and have their own announcers. For the FSU/Florida game, they have one from each side in the booth with the play by play guy. It works out great I'm watching it now. Good insight from both sides.
• Mooney44Cards

  

  Personally, if we're talking best college QBs of all time, I'll take Tommie Frazier. Dude was sick.....literally. He played through blood clots in his leg through most of his career, put up huge numbers, won back to back national titles, and I'm pretty sure was MVP of every bowl game he played in.
  
  Seriously, this is one of my favorite college football plays of all time:
  
• ironman02

  ytownfootball,
  
  Great story. I'm sure stuff like that happens in homes across America each Saturday. My Dad is a football fan, but he doesn't watch too many games other than Ohio State. I watched the Florida-LSU game with him a few weeks ago. I purposely didn't say anything about Lundquist and Danielson beforehand just to see if he noticed it too. By halftime he was wanting to turn the game off because Danielson and Lundquist were talking more about Tebow, his family, his leadership, past plays that he made, etc. than they were talking about the game. It was the same thing this past weekend. I understand that the best players get a lot of praise, especially QBs, but some of the things they say about Tebow are just beyond ridiculous. Hell, Danielson doesn't even refer to Tebow as "Tebow" most of the time. It's simply "Tim". Apparently they're on a first-name basis now.
• Speedofsand

  

  Mooney44Cards, I saw Tommy play in the state championship game in high school. His little brother was a fullback for the Gators.