Published 7/3/2009
by David Arreola
at Bleacher Report - College Football
In the world of sports, we tend to toss around words that acclaim players far too often. You all know what words I'm talking about. Beast, genius, "great," etc.
But, one of the words we don't use very often is legend. This is because we rarely stumble upon legends in sports. Much less college sports.
However, down here in sunny (and very hot) Gainesville, FL, we have ourselves a legend who is still playing the game that has made him famous.
His name is Tim Tebow, and he is a Florida legend.
Since the summer of his freshman year, the hype surrounding Tim Tebow was unreal. Who cared if we had Chris Leak? (who at the time was getting ready for his senior season and his fourth year of being the starting quarterback for the Gators), we had the super freshman Tim Tebow.
Of course we all loved Leak, but whenever Tebow came out onto the field, The Swamp went insane. Sometimes Ben Hill Griffin Stadium got so into Tebow Mania, we would boo the Florida coaching staff for taking him out. (We all ...
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