BACK AMONG THE LIVING
JUNIOR AT OUR HOTEL...
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE GAME...
GATOR BAND...
ALBERT AND ALBERTA AND THE ORANGE BOWL THING...
It is 7:15 a.m. and Junior and Patrick are asleep here upstairs in their bedroom. It is 29 degrees F. and we are on "Blizzard Watch." Great. It is 55 and cloudy in Brooksville, Fla. FOOTBALL:Has it really sunk in yet that the Gators' Defense held the Oklahoma Sooners to 14 points??? Did you know that they have been stopped in the Red Zone only FOUR times this year, and the Gators did it twice Thursday Night? Do you think they are stunned?
"MIAMI — On a grim late afternoon back on Sept. 27, Florida's championship dreams seemed to evaporate with a numbing upset loss to Ole Miss in The Swamp. Then, about 45 minutes after the game, a tearful Tim Tebow walked up to the postgame podium and delivered an emotional promise that uplifted the Gator Nation, giving it hope in the darkest hour of the season.
"Tebow, struggling to get his words out, vowed that no one would work harder or play harder than him and the Gators for the rest of the season. Ten consecutive wins and a national championship later, many are predicting that Tebow's speech will go down as one of the greatest in college football history, right up there with Knute Rockne's 'Win one for the Gipper.'"
--Robbie Andreu
posted by Trader Rick @ 7:16 AM
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Tebow is a class act, not many like him around and that's a shame.
You have to respect a guy that refuses to bow to pressure and stay in college when he would no doubt be among the first couple of players chosen in the next NFL draft.
I admire Tebow more and more every time I see a report about him.
When I was in College at Wichita State, our star basketball player, Antoine Carr, made the decision to finish college instead of going pro. We fans considered that a class decision. That is, until we learned the alumni booster club gave his mother a new house for staying.
Eventually, he did turn pro, along with team mates Cliff Levingston, and Xavier McDaniel. And he didn't do as well as a pro as either of them.
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