Tebow makes news with date to awards show

Ocala.com ^ | December 11, 2009 | Staff and wire reports

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow didn't take home an award from the The Home Depot ESPNU College Football Awards Thursday night, but he made national news from the red carpet with his date, the young woman he brought on his arm.
She was Kelly Faughnan, 20, whom he met the day before. Faughnan had been diagnosed with a brain tumor just before Thanksgiving last year. Before surgery last year, her wish was to go to Disney World during the awards show to get a glimpse of Tebow.
Faughnan is from Clifton, Va., according to several news reports.
Fox News reported that Faughnan had asked her family to make the trip from the Washington, D.C., area and was wearing an "I Love Timmy" button at an event Wednesday night.
"I got to meet her and she was a fan," Tebow said in a Fox News video from the red carpet. "We just became good friends last night, and I asked if she wanted to walk the red carpet with me tonight. And she said yes and went out and got a nice dress today, and we're having a good time."
"It's the best thing ever," she said.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This story of the beautiful, terribly ill girl meeting and going on a glamorous date with her Prince Charming is heart-warming to a curmudgeon like me. Hope some of you like it too.

[clintonh8r]

Tim gets the award they don’t really give to athletes: The Class Award.

[C19fan]

Bravo to Tebow and prayers for the young lady. I saw her walk with Tebow on ESPN last night. She was so pretty and classy I thought that was a real date.

[BGHater]

[OldDeckHand]

I don't care if Tebow cries when he loses the Conference championship game. So he's an emotional player, who cares? But, he's got more class a single player, than most programs have in their entire athletic department.

He Tiger, that's how a man behaves.

[BubbaBasher]

Why does everyone think he’s some kind of saint. She’s a hot chick. I don’t think he needed any convincing.

[altoinprogress]

Exactly.

[Onelifetogive]

As a Bama fan, I can say that Tim Tebow is a class act.

[altoinprogress]

Since he asked her, it IS a real date.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Meanwhile, can someone tell me why Ray Lewis isn't in prison????

[EternalVigilance]

Very nice.

[Common Sense 101]

Tebow seems to be a class act through and through... as always, time will tell, but he certainly has a more character than most modern day athletes (sadly, I thought the same of Tiger Woods until)...

[The Toll]

For the same reason that I would be if the situation was reversed. He was tried here in Atlanta.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Figures.

[OldDeckHand]

"as always, time will tell, but he certainly has a more character than most modern day athletes"

Most modern days athletes don't do this - playing with orphaned children in 3rd world countries, and helping on their parents mission trips.

[RonF]

A kid like Tebow can get a hot date any time he wants. He doesn’t have to pick out a young lady under these circumstances, he could get some model or coed that he would be likely to get a lot further with than this.

[corkoman]

OK - thats gotta be his sister on the right. right?

[SeaHawkFan]

She’s attractive, but I wouldn’t put her in the ‘hot’ category. There are lots of hot-looking women at Florida. A class act by Tim Tebow.

[OldDeckHand]

"OK - thats gotta be his sister on the right. right?"

I can't tell for sure. This is a picture that I know to be of his sister, who is older than he is..

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Why does everyone think he’s some kind of saint.

I think the story is about HER dream coming true, like in Cinderella, and a ton of Hollywood movies. Us old farts get to dab away a tear because of her happiness.