Look, the shards of glass of crashing around me as I type this, given the updates in this space in the last four years on Tyler Hansbrough's broken nose, sore calf, record-pursuits, popped contact lenses, etc., but the Tim Tebow Madness has spiraled beyond out-of-control and into insanity.
Tebow is a great player. A Heisman Trophy and two national titles tend to generate some publicity. His personality, more wholesome than the pre-anorexic Olsen Twins, is also commendable at a time when coaches are paying hush money to paramours and funding abortions.
But can we take a step back on the breathless Tebow coverage? (Cue Thom Brennaman).
Florida's the No. 1 team in the country. Can you name a starter on Florida's defense? (Off the top of my head I've got one, linebacker Brandon Spikes.)
Point is can we at least attempt to limit the Tebow coverage to one slug per day? Above is the list of articles on one Florida newspaper's web site today. Out of 10 slugs, four are about Tebow.
Who's writing these headlines?
"Does Tim Tebow have a weakness?"
"UF QB Tim Tebow is willing to sacrifice his body"
Those aren't headlines, they're graphics from a "Batman" fight scene. Kapow! Zap! Boff!
Holy Hyperbole, Batman, please step away from The Tebow.
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Tim Tebow
Thu, 08/13/2009 - 15:59 — JPDOhioThe Michael Jackson of college football.
james
Thu, 08/13/2009 - 15:47 — bluecat1just because tebow is a fine young man and the best college fb player alive , u show your ignorance, by making the comments u made, u need help, see a dr . about your condition, ok, go duke!!!!!!!!!!
Amen. In "Jerry MaGuire," #1
Thu, 08/13/2009 - 13:40 — JamesinWillowSpringsAmen.
In "Jerry MaGuire," #1 Draft-pick-to-be Frank Cushman sees himself on the jumbotron in Times Square and laments that even he is tired of seeing himself. "I'm having Cush-lash."
I feel the same way about Tebow. If there's a such thing as "Tim-lash," I've got it. Everyone in America knows he performs circumcisions in third-world countries and is a virgin -- that we know even one penile-related factoid about Tebow is one too many.
Here's to reduced coverage of Tebow while not turning our backs on the legitimate stories as the present themselves. If that's possible...