Timmy
You can probably bet your life on this. This will probably be the one and only time I talk about sports on my blog. So for the one that will relish this moment, drink deeply.
Tim Tebow--Well, know as Timmy to me, might indeed be one of the top picks for quarterbacks in the nation for high school. My connection with Timmy is that we took Latin together for 2 years and I have also gone with his dad, Bob Tebow, on several mission trips.
"Your eyes keep floating back to the numbers. “Can’t be right,” you mutter to yourself. “Gotta be a typo. Seventy touchdowns in one season? As a junior?” But there they are, leaving opposing coaches to scratch their collective heads: 46 through the air, 24 on the ground, plus single-season state records for total passing yards (4,304) and total offense (5,576).
Yep, Nease QB Tim Tebow is a bona fide phenom. He’s the chiseled prize of a pitched recruiting battle, the prophet for a rising power in North Florida program, and a poster-boy for gym rats everywhere. He’s earned the privilege of Big Man On Campus, but there’s just one problem: He’s not on campus.
In fact, he couldn’t be much further from living “the life”: Right now, he’s in the Phillipines. The two-week trek is a summer-vacation tradition for the Tebows. Some families go to Disneyworld, the Tebows care for abandoned children at a third-world orphanage.
In addition to the missionary work, Tebow stays grounded because he is home-schooled. (A Florida rule allows him to play for his local school.) In their tidy Jacksonville home, his deeply religious parents have raised a young man immune from the hype, unfazed by the glare.
Still, it’s all a bit breathless as signing day approaches: Check out Tebow-mania on the recruiting websites: Will he or won’t he? Did he wear Michigan blue to the gym today, or ‘Bama crimson? Little-known fact: Tebow hasn’t even settled on a team when he plays video games; He’s scouting several. Eventually, though, “He will make one lucky school very proud," said Nease head coach Craig Howard.
“He makes everyone around him better; he is like a coach on the football field,” Howard said. He’ll go over and encourage them or say something motivating. He befriends the underclassmen, and makes them feel welcome. He’s also the type player you have to kick out of the weight room. “He stays late after practice everyday. Week in and week out, he is the hardest worker on the football field,” said his coach. “That carries over to a lot of our younger players.”
When you hear him speak — quiet and humble, team and family — you start talking to yourself again. Like the eye-popping stats, you wonder “Is this for real? What 17-year-old is this grounded?”
But Tim Tebow’s not too worried about what you think — he’s too busy preparing for the football season and, seemingly, life."
This article can be found at http://www.sparqtraining.com/page.asp?SID=1&Page=88
Tim Tebow--Well, know as Timmy to me, might indeed be one of the top picks for quarterbacks in the nation for high school. My connection with Timmy is that we took Latin together for 2 years and I have also gone with his dad, Bob Tebow, on several mission trips.
"Your eyes keep floating back to the numbers. “Can’t be right,” you mutter to yourself. “Gotta be a typo. Seventy touchdowns in one season? As a junior?” But there they are, leaving opposing coaches to scratch their collective heads: 46 through the air, 24 on the ground, plus single-season state records for total passing yards (4,304) and total offense (5,576).
Yep, Nease QB Tim Tebow is a bona fide phenom. He’s the chiseled prize of a pitched recruiting battle, the prophet for a rising power in North Florida program, and a poster-boy for gym rats everywhere. He’s earned the privilege of Big Man On Campus, but there’s just one problem: He’s not on campus.
In fact, he couldn’t be much further from living “the life”: Right now, he’s in the Phillipines. The two-week trek is a summer-vacation tradition for the Tebows. Some families go to Disneyworld, the Tebows care for abandoned children at a third-world orphanage.
In addition to the missionary work, Tebow stays grounded because he is home-schooled. (A Florida rule allows him to play for his local school.) In their tidy Jacksonville home, his deeply religious parents have raised a young man immune from the hype, unfazed by the glare.
Still, it’s all a bit breathless as signing day approaches: Check out Tebow-mania on the recruiting websites: Will he or won’t he? Did he wear Michigan blue to the gym today, or ‘Bama crimson? Little-known fact: Tebow hasn’t even settled on a team when he plays video games; He’s scouting several. Eventually, though, “He will make one lucky school very proud," said Nease head coach Craig Howard.
“He makes everyone around him better; he is like a coach on the football field,” Howard said. He’ll go over and encourage them or say something motivating. He befriends the underclassmen, and makes them feel welcome. He’s also the type player you have to kick out of the weight room. “He stays late after practice everyday. Week in and week out, he is the hardest worker on the football field,” said his coach. “That carries over to a lot of our younger players.”
When you hear him speak — quiet and humble, team and family — you start talking to yourself again. Like the eye-popping stats, you wonder “Is this for real? What 17-year-old is this grounded?”
But Tim Tebow’s not too worried about what you think — he’s too busy preparing for the football season and, seemingly, life."
This article can be found at http://www.sparqtraining.com/page.asp?SID=1&Page=88
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