Republished from my other site, DanShanoff.com. I am launching a new email newsletter this month. It won't be about Tebow, specifically, and won't even necessarily be about sports, but please feel welcome to sign up for it here.
It seems fitting that today is both the birth day of the new SEC
Network and the birthday of Tim Tebow, the biggest star on the SEC
Network.
It was just more than five summers ago that I launched TimTeblog.com, offering obsessive coverage of the Tim Tebow phenomenon (years before "obsessions" became a beat for new news companies).
The
site was fascinating to produce -- there was obviously plenty of
material around Tebow during his insane senior season at Florida, his
insane NFL Draft process, his insane rookie year with the Broncos, the
truly insane apex 2nd year in Denver, the modestly insane debacle in New
York and the not-really-insane denouement in New England last August.
I
can't help but think that the moment the lights officially go on for
the SEC Network, with Tebow on-air live from Gainesville, the NFL
chapter of Tebow's career will really be over.
I remain
biased and mystified -- that no team will give him a shot, that QBs like
Brady Quinn and Rex Grossman can land on rosters, that this really
might be it.
I know he continues to train -- I actually
believe him when he says that his skills have never been better. I am
left with one lingering question:
Why doesn't he switch positions?
Yes,
I understand that the day he lines up at anything but QB is the day
that his dream of being an NFL QB is over, but -- from the looks of
things -- his dream of being an NFL quarterback *IS ALREADY* over.
The
implication: Wait: He would rather remain a QB and never play in the
NFL again than switch to anything-but-QB (fullback? tight end?) and get a
shot to contribute on an NFL roster?
It's not like he
wasn't willing to do whatever it took to help his teams previously: His
rookie year with the Broncos, before he took over as starting QB, he
lined up as a receiver. On the Jets, he eagerly accepted a role on
special teams. Anything to help the team.
The irony is
that if he was on a roster as a fullback, coaches might actually be
willing to deploy him more innovatively, in short-yardage situations or
otherwise:
Four or five plays per game, what if you
weren't sure if the fullback was going to plow you over, pitch to a
running back or flip a toss over your head to a wide-open receiver?
The
next phase of Tim Tebow's fascinating career begins today. He will be
wildly successful and popular, because he has always been wildly
successful and popular.
Look: I subscribe to the First Rule of Tim Tebow ("Just when you think it can't get any crazier, it does") and hold out that at least one more NFL opportunity will present itself (say, when Urban Meyer takes over for Bill Belichick in New England).
Even with that faith, I can't help lamenting whether the previous phase -- Tebow's NFL career -- ends today, too.
-- D.S.
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