LSU Fan and Tim Tebow
Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 07:47 PM EST
[College Football]
Florida QB Tim Tebow forced to get new number after threatening calls ... AP
Wire article that came through today. Evidently someone at LSU got hold of Tim's cell phone number and printed up tee shirts with the number affixed to them. Tebow got hundreds of phone calls and text messages last week as a result. He stated that most were made in good college gamesmanship, but there were many that went over the line and became threatening. The son of missionary parents, when his father asked Tim what was being said about him, he refused to tell him. He just couldn't bring himself to disclose to his dad the threats and language he had to go through and delete one at a time off of his phone. Finally, upon hearing about what Tim had been submitted to, Coach Meyer advised him to toss the phone, which he did.
This is a good person who happens to be a great competitor. His teammates say they've never met anyone as decent and yet as competitive as he is. These guys don't come along too often and I guess jealousy could be the culprit...
I've been around the block a few times and fun is fun, but threatening a kid like this is over the top. Nothing surprises me any more, but I'd like to think this type of behavior could be left behind concerning college football and the players. If you can't win fair and square then it doesn't mean anything.
Had to get this off my chest.
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