Posted on 04/15/2018 5:32:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It looks like Tim Tebow may get to play pro football again after all.
Not in the NFL, but in the new AAF that starts play next February.
And not for just any coach, but for canny Steve Spurrier, another Heisman Trophy winning quarterback at the University of Florida where Tebow won the same trophy plus two NCAA national championships under Coach Urban Meyer.
Spurrier is the newly-named head coach of the Orlando franchise of the Alliance of American Football that begins play on CBS next February the Sunday after the Super Bowl. It will play an eight-game season with a range of new rules designed to speed and heighten a game’s excitement–no TV timeouts, no kickoffs, only two-point conversions, 30-second play clock.
The 73-year-old Spurrier talked with Tebow this week. “If he wants to start throwing the (football), we have a No. 15 jersey waiting for him,” the coach said.
We’ve written about the 30-year-old Tebow’s inspiring uphill bid to work his way up through the Mets minor league organization and craft a baseball career here and over here.
Last week in his first at-bat in Double-A ball Tebow hit a three-run homer for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies. Since then, the outfielder has struggled at the plate. According to Coach Spurrier, Tebow said he wanted to chase his baseball dream some more.
Spurrier added:
Right now his message is: ‘Coach, I’m going to keep swinging the bat.’ And I said ‘I don’t blame you. I’d swing the bat all this summer and see where that leads.’ But if it doesn’t materialize, I think he has some football left in him. We’re just going to have to wait and see on that.
Spurrier knows something about athletic adversity. A first-round draft pick of San Francisco, Spurrier played in the NFL a decade, mainly as a backup. He coached the upstart USFL’s Tampa Bay Bandits to a 35-19 record in three seasons and two seasons as Washington Redskins’ coach. He’s been head coach at Duke, South Carolina and Florida where his innovative, wide-open offensive schemes puzzled defenses and broke records.
At Florida he won six SEC championships, one consensus national championship and became the first Heisman Trophy winner to coach a Heisman Trophy winner with Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel.
Playing for an Orlando pro team would place Tebow just 115 miles from Gainesville where he won his two NCAA championships, plus a state high school championship. And he’d be smack dab in the middle of a football-crazy state and his avid fan-base that drove hours to see him play baseball in St. Lucie last summer.
This may be his last season to convince the Mets to keep him developing through Double-A and perhaps Triple-A. Understandably, Tebow wants to play it out.
Tebow says he’s had offers to return to the NFL but not at quarterback, a deal-breaker for him. “For me,” Tebow adds, “it’s doing more of my dream, ’cause I loved playing quarterback. But I love hitting a baseball, too. So I’m gonna go live out my dreams, not just what other people want me to do.”
Yeah.
There is also a third new league, which will be starting in the fall.
This should be good.
Oh sorry. I think the one you mentioned is the one I was thinking of.
You are right. Next spring.
He better get the money up front.
Stick with Baseball Tim. You have a good chance of being called up to the Majors soon. Spurrier’s start up league is a wing and a prayer. Good chance it will go nowhere.
Tebow at the Binghamton Rumble Ponies. He’s been on a hot streak lately:
7 G, 25 AB, 5H (1-2B 1-HR), 3 RBI, 13 SO
Minor leagues. He’ll be good for attendance. Like Michael Jordan did for minor league baseball. Time to get into politics.
Yea, but Jordan “retired” to play baseball as a cover for his gambling suspension. He spun his wheels there until he could return to basketball.
I think Tebow is the real deal here, would love to see him get an MLB callup.
Orlando got a team and I wonder who else will get a team...rumors is that Hartford will get a team. That said, Great for Tim. Hope he succeed.
I saw it reported that Tebow was signed by the Patriots for a 1 year deal with no guaranteed income. Wouldn’t he get league minimum? Last time I looked it was about $300,000.
“Tim Tebow Gets An Offer To Play Pro Football Again”......
As Kappernick continues to kneel in protest.
I hope Tebow does well.
“Tim Tebow Gets An Offer To Play Pro Football Again”......
As unemployed Kappernick continues to kneel in protest.
I hope Tebow does well.
The kid should have been made a TE. He could run but was awful at passing.
13 strike outs is good? AT 25 at bats?
No, it’s not. He was doing even worse until the last game or two.
I’d buy a ticket to a bush-league football game to support a guy like Tebow.
IIRC, Babe Ruth led the league in home runs AND in strike outs...
Great game, baseball. Do it right three times out of ten and you’re a star; four times out of ten and you’re Hall of Fame!
Meanwhile lousy QBs like Colin Kaepernick are celebrated by liberals.
Liberals are the most hateful people on Earth. Look at all the flack they are giving Chick-Fil-A for opening chicken restaurants in NYC. Chicken restaurants! Meanwhile, Starbucks continues to infiltrate the red-state heartland with nary a protest. That's because conservatives are tolerant people and liberals are not.
At 12, I was chosen as one of the best Little League players in Dayton, OH...even better than the catcher on our team. I had dreams of playing MLB.
Who was our catcher?
Steve Yeager, who went on to become the starting catcher for the LA Dodgers.
What happened to my focus? A petite 15y/o blonde moved next door and I lost interest in baseball as my 16y/o priorities changed.
C’est la vie....
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