Sunday, December 6, 2009

Tim Tebow Crying

For four years now, we have tried to proclaim Tim Tebow superhuman.

He was the freshman so hyped that we were in awe when he converted the shortest of plays. He was the sophomore who was so statistically dominant that he broke the Heisman sophomore jinx. He was the junior who won a second national championship, this one his own.

And now he is the senior who brought the Gators to 12-0 for just the second time in team history, doing it with the least amount of help he has had in his UF tenure.

In fact, it's the human side of Tebow that we probably will miss more than anything else, now that the greatest Gator ever has played his last game at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.

One UF senior after another came out of that tunnel Saturday afternoon, some with clever tricks (Wondy Pierre-Louis pulled the grandest stunt, with a LeBron James-like powder toss), some of them with straight faces.

Tebow came out with tears. Before his name was called, there were tears. Before he ever stepped onto the field.