Tebow gets front row Magic game tickets from Mom? Highly improbable...
by basaltrock on Jun 2, 2009 4:48 PM EDT
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PrintFrom Larry Brown Sports (http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/tim-tebow-courtside-magic-cavs-game6-orlando/7638):
Far be it from me to be the buzz kill during an exciting Game 6 in Orlando, but my buddy Botros tipped me off to something quite interesting. Apparently Tim Tebow was in attendance for the game and caught on camera several times near the court.
Naturally once must assume that the man had pretty sweet tickets to the game considering he was pictured on the floor-level. Let’s figure he was sitting somewhere in the first five rows for the game — that has to be at least several hundred, possibly a few thousand dollars. Now I’m not sure about his family’s financial status, but I’m guessing they don’t have that much extra money laying around for their son to attend one game. When you’re talking about similar seats to the ones that Tiger Woods occupies — and he’s a professional athlete — something doesn’t sit right. Wasn’t it O.J. Mayo who was busted for going to a Lakers game thanks to tickets provided by Carmelo Anthony? How is it that Tim Tebow — an amateur college athlete unable to work at a job — was able to afford such prime seats to such a big sporting event? Yeah, I realize it’s kind of menial, but the whole thing seems pretty fishy to me.
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From Orlando Sentinel "Swamp Things" writer Jeremy Fowler:
So apparently Tim's mother, Pam, stepped in to pay for the ticket, according to a Florida team spokesman. It appears Florida played it safe.
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Once again, another Gators-related story (this time about the Magic boy himself, no pun intended) that goes uncritiqued by the media. Joe Schad reported that Tebow's mom paid face value for the tickets. However, could you or I have gotten those seats at face value? The NCAA rule clearly states the 'value' of an item is primary, not the cost as the determining factor. If not every booster or agent could buy Ferrari's and sell them to the parents for $100. If only the NCAA would look into this, but of course, they're too busy taking extended time on our case. Utterly ridiculous...
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Is it just me
or does Timmay’s head look too big for his body in that pic?
If my memory from high school is accurate...
there’s a different color wrist band for each thing he’s done to a boy already.
by MattDNole on Jun 2, 2009 9:50 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's NBA in Orlando
Ticket value is a couple hundred bucks. I think most of us could afford that already, but you’d probably be willing to stretch if need be if you knew that your son was going to become a millionaire in a year.
That being said, that IS an awful lot of wristbands. I think an acceptable number of wristbands would be somewhere in the range of ZERO. But as we’ve seen from his Crocs, style isn’t exactly Tebow’s forte.
by skigator93 on Jun 3, 2009 10:25 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Yes
Finally the goody goody tebow gets a blast of reality and realizes you can’t get whatever you want when you want. Looks like the 7th gator of the year to get in legal trouble is coming around.
So how many major U.S. sporting events in prime seating locations does that make for Timmy this year?
I know he was in the pits at Daytona. Super Bowl, too? Somebody help me here.
Don't forget
He had great seats for the BCS Championship Game too – right on the field.
Surely you have more than pit seats and foot lockers to bring down the higest profile player in the country Lieutenant Caffey.
Colonel Jessup's own arrogance does him in at the end and he winds up getting, you know, arrested. Just saying.
Teh irony. It hurts.
"The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me." - Steven Wright
Tebow
If I had tickets I would give them to him.Its been since 82 since moving to Orlando from Ttown and just beginning to return to normal. This guy is the best thing to happen to football since Bert Reynolds and sometimes I want a hero to go big(even if he does wear the wrong colors). Leave him alone.
Wow. I'm speechless.
Best thing since Burt Reynolds? How did Burt Reynolds become one of the best things to happen to football? Are you aware that he is an actor?
I can’t wait until TRM sees this.
Tebow
OK maybe Deion not Bert Reynolds. If they made a garnet and gold 15 jersey I would buy it for my kid!
It's okay to admire a player wearing your rival's colors....
Myron Rolle is a great example – You can’t hate a kid like that just because he plays for the cross state rival.
Tebow makes it really hard to hate him
because of his faith and all…but when he taunted the FSU student section last year, ran down into the opposite end zone to celebrate with the UF fans (players can’t pass the 20 yard line?) all bets were off
by basbalstr101 on Jun 5, 2009 12:04 AM EDT up reply actions
+1. I really wanted to like the guy
But his antics toward the student section seemed below Jesus… errr, Tebow’s level. At least that’s what I had though. He won and kept his team motivated, though. I guess that’s all that should matter to Gator fans.
Just wants to beat the Gators
Exactly.
No one hated Danny Wuerffel. And no one would hate Tim Tebow if he had even an ounce of class and sportsmanship on the football field. I mean, first of all, this is sports, so it’s not like we really “hate” anyone, so I would think it’s perfectly acceptable to “hate” a guy who acts like a complete “ass” everytime he takes the field. He’s chosen to be a legendary icon for the University of Florida but not an ambassador for the school to the rest of college football. He has the ability and opportunity to be so much more than he is. He’ll be remembered as a great college football player. That is all. When he matures one day, long after his peers, he’ll apologize for the way he acted on the field in his college years. The irony of course is that, in all his immaturity, the guy actually thinks people hate him now because he’s so good. Yet there are still good people like nole34 who want to root for him. Tim, the rest of us really do “hate” you simply because you’re a douchebag. You have one more year to prove to adults that you can use your influence to promote sportsmanship and decency to a young generation of college football players.
One difference between Tebow and Wuerffel
Is that FSU beat Wuerffel, who was 2-2-1 in his career against the ‘Noles, which would obviously make him easier to stomach than Tebow. Although they are similar in their deep religious devotions, they have very different personalities. Wuerffer is very quiet and reserved while Tebow is extroverted and vocal. Tebow gets amped up during the games, but I would think most opponents players wouldn’t call him classless.
Immature is also a strong word to use to describe a 21 year old academic all-american who has won numerous community service awards, has a longer speaking engagement list than most world leaders, and spends his spring breaks and summer vacations doing mission work with his family.
I would be willing to bet that Tebow becomes much more than “just a great college football player.” Wuerffel has done much more beyond his playing days and Tebow has the resources to go big in life after football.
“Football is a means to an end,” Tebow said. “I love playing football, and I do it with all my heart, but there is something that’s more important. I use football to have that platform to do what is most important to me, and that is share my faith.”
Mega LOL at Academic All American, but I have issues with that award.
What Weurfell has done post college far surpasses what he did in his Gator playing days.
my bad on the record
It’s amazing that two teams in different conferences played 6 times in 4 years!
Well skigator...
…when one of those teams craves humiliation and requires 8 quarters against its rival to win its first farce of a national championship, these things happen. I guess if a program takes 90 years to win a ring, they’ll go toe-to-toe with a girls’ school as many times as it takes to get the job done. We agree: Amazing.
This was laughable, skigator.
In so many ways. Once again, I’m choosing to let your comments (And Tebow’s) stand on their own merit. Thanks as always.
Why?
does it always take you 2 posts to say what you need to say? Just spit it out TRM. I am glad that Tebow and I both can be such a source of amusement for you. You’re welcome.
Man, I return from vacation to find this?
skigator, as my ONE post implied, it generally takes only ONE OF YOURS to make my points. This was no exception. Your response to my original post listed every defense you could think of for Tebow’s conduct except for the one thing I claimed fans disliked him for, the fact that he’s a douchebag on the field. This is why you’re a classic at TN. (Kudos, however, for your baseless claim that “I would think most opponents players wouldn’t call him classless.” Well, let’s just ask them with the mics off, why don’t we? And by the way, I bet we hear “douchebag” more than once.) And you don’t have to say, “You’re welcome.” It doesn’t come off near as condescending as you think. More like Jimmy Fallon’s Nick Burns “Your Company’s Computer Guy” character back when people thought Fallon was funny. That’s how I picture you by the way. Not as Nick Burns, but as the unfunny comedian who keeps showing up when no one wants him around anymore.
So how was Panama City Beach?!
For the record, that makes 3 e-mails to get your dribbling thoughts in.
Also, only losers watch Jimmy Fallon, past or present, and use the term “douchebag” for that matter, so that is not likely the response of any NCAA players.
"Football is a means to an end," Tebow said. "I love playing football, and I do it with all my heart, but there is something that’s more important. I use football to have that platform to do what is most important to me, and that is share my faith."
So, he’s only playing football so he can have a soapbox to pimp Jesus from.
But…Will he be able to claim himself tax exempt in order to avoid paying out when he gets drafted as a fullback in the 3rd round? That’s the question I think we all want to know the answer to.
"The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me." - Steven Wright
Yeah its tough to get tickets to Tebows speach at Jim Bob Huggin's trailer...
But hey, if that makes him have one more speech to give than a world leader, he must be something special.
Hold on! I’ve almost finished my 100th debate with a fencepost. Who knew I would have been so important?
" And He drank the world's sin so He could carry you in, and give you life"
I'd love to see someone in the NFL try it
but all the other QB’s would go nuts because suddenly teams would be carrying two quarterbacks and paying them a lot less money (because of the chance they get injured)
Another example probably more fitting than Rolle
Is Warrick Dunn. He’s a guy who completely crushed the Gators dreams on his screen pass run for a TD, but he’s been one of my favorite players due to his work ethic and community service work (especially his Home for the Holidays program). As an Atlantan, I was very excited when he signed with the Falcons.
LMAO. Posted by one of the readers on the Swamp Things blog re: mamma paying for the tixs.
The money used to pay for the Magic tickets would have been better spent for Timmy to perform more circumcisions of many many more third world little boys.
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Don't want to play the Anti-Religion card here....
..but why are players (such as Tim) allowed to wear scripture verses on their face black strips? If I’m an atheist, why can’t I wear “No God” on my cheeks in high def in front of a national t.v. audience? Before you say I’d be deliberately antagonizing, how do you know that “John 4:16” doesn’t give me a similar reaction?
K-Man, it is obvious you are going to go straight to hell, no questions asked.
John 3:16 is what Tim Tebow wears. Don’t you know the difference between 3:16 and 4:16? (I don’t remember either)
This is another comments from a reader on the Gator blog. Please don’t give me any grief. I don’t usually read, post comments, care, or have to time to look at any other teams sites, but this last week I could not help myself to peek and see how the "Chosen Ones" were reacting to their latest legal mishap. I thought the comment above and the one below that were posted by readers were funny and I felt it would be ok to cut and paste them to this site.
Tim Tebow was seen walking across Lake Alice, on top of the water, and he did not even get his sneakers wet. When he reached the other side he fed over 200 people with one fish and turned the water into wine.
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I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one.
You’re more than welcome to. I don’t think anyone regulates it, and if they do, it shouldn’t be. With that said, it’s ESPN’s decision whether or not to air you. Get over it if a bible verse offends you, and get over it if an atheist is going to say No God.
Just wants to beat the Gators
IMO, at some point the NCAA will step in and restrict what is allowed to be printed on the eye black, probably only allowing the school name or logo.
The NBA did the same thing to Dwayne Wade when he needed stitches and started wearing band aids with the American flag, Flash (his nickname), and Wade printed on them. I thought they were neat but the NBA took a page out of the No Fun Leagues (NFL) book and banned them.
I think once other college players start wearing more individualistic and creative eye black patches, the NCAA will step in and put restrictions on them, because as we all know the NCAA is all about fairness, equality, and education, above all else.
>-----:----:------>Spear 'em then Scalp 'em
I'm not offended by people who openly share their faith.
I personally don’t believe. But, I’m clearly in the minority on that one and I’ve got better things to do than worry about what someone’s eye black says. Honestly, I’m more annoyed with people repping their freaking area codes.
"The other day I... uh, no, that wasn't me." - Steven Wright
I believe if an atheist player wanted to put "No God" on their black they could
"The worst kind of non-smokers are the ones that come up to you and cough. That's pretty cruel isn't it? Do you go up to cripples and dance too?"-Bill Hicks
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by Jonathan Loesche on Jun 8, 2009 12:10 PM EDT up reply actions
So, should the NCAA ban all these ridiculous tattoos as well?
I would think that’s more offensive and damaging to the NCAA’s image than a 2-inch barely legible scripture verse on an eyeblack strip.
What is this "hell" place you speak of?
Must be a religious thing, never heard of it.
You are right, it’s John’s 3rd chapter. It has the phrase “only begotten son” in it. No idea what that means, but I think ESPN begott Tebow about 18 months ago.
Don't you guys know that there's no place called "Hell"
Hell is just a “state of being” or at least that’s what I learned watching Sports Night (one of the most – if not the most – underrated shows of all time)!
This place called Hell
For Gator fans Hell means….
The Choke at Doak
Charlie Ward’s swing pass to Warrick Dunn to drain the swamp
Herschel Walker
Spurrier leaving to coach the Redskins
Screwing over Jevan Snead
Future Hell-Meyer leaving to coach ND
Future Hell 2-Tebow to the NFL
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