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Tebow: 'I'm coming back'

 
Florida junior quarterback Tim Tebow kept it dramatic. He was walking off the stage at the school's national championship celebration in Gainesville, when he came back and grabbed a microphone to make an unexpected announcement. "Oh, by the way," he said. "Let's do it again next year. I'm coming back." Actually, that should come as no surprise. Tebow, who was projected to go anywhere between the third-and-fifth round of the NFL draft if he declared, seems happy in this setting. "I feel like I'm a role model and a lot of times, people begin things and don't finish them. I don't want to be like that. I wanted to be loyal to the university and finish what I started," he said. Tebow, the MVP of the the Gators' 24-14 BCS title game victory over Oklahoma, has a shot to win a second Heisman Trophy and a third national championship. With Tebow in the lineup, the Gators should be an overwhelming pre-season choice for No. 1. There had been speculation Tebow wanted a bigger stage to share his ... (link)

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