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The Gators Are Looking For Speed!

Published by
Steve
at April 12, 2008 in Football. 1 Comment

Looks like there’s gonna be a race in Gainesville today…

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Urban Meyer is searching for the fastest student on campus.

He’s quite certain it’s one of his football players — Louis Murphy, Chris Rainey or Deonte Thompson. But just in case, he’s having a race Saturday to find out for sure.

And what happens if someone beats his speedsters before the team’s spring game?

“They’re on scholarship,” Meyer said

ESPN - “Florida Searches For Fastest Student”

Percy Harvin was supposed to be the main attraction for the race, but he had heel surgery Monday and is out for two months.

That left Murphy, Rainey and Thompson as the fastest Meyer had to offer.

Murphy, a senior from St. Petersburg, caught 39 passes for 590 yards and six touchdowns last season. Rainey and Thompson, both redshirt freshmen, were two of Meyer’s prized recruits in last year’s top-rated class.

Meyer's having a race.

Although Meyer promised a full scholarship to any student who beats his players, the coach’s reason for organizing the event wasn’t to find a running back, receiver, defensive back or kick returner from campus.

The game will be televised on ESPN, offering Meyer a chance to spread his recruiting pitch about wanting to be “the fastest team in America,” and having a race featuring three of his stars could help sell the school.

All I’ve got to say is, don’t underestimate what a poor college student will do for a full scholarship!

 

President Bush Congratulates Tim Tebow On Winning Heisman

Published by
Steve
at December 17, 2007 in Faith, Football and Politics. 0 Comments

Tim Tebow, winner of the 2007 Heisman Award, has been receiving calls and letters of congratulations from people all over who have been impressed with his athletic achievements as well as his excellent display of character.

In addition to a phone call from Chuck Norris, he received a letter from President George W. Bush  on December 9th;

Dear Tim,

Congratulations on winning the Heisman Trophy. More importantly, I appreciate your priorities as stated in your speech! Faith, family, academics and sport. If your mission was to allow the Almighty to shine brightly, it worked. I appreciate the love and pride that your parents obviously felt last night. Please give them my best.

Sincerely, George Bush

BTW, it was a handwritten note, not something done by some aide.

The Inventor of Gatoraide Passed Away This Week

Published by
Steve
at November 29, 2007 in Football, History and news. 1 Comment

Dr. CadeDr. J. Robert Cade, who invented the sports drink Gatorade and launched a multibillion-dollar industry, died Tuesday of kidney failure. He was 80.

His death was announced by the University of Florida, where he and other researchers created Gatorade in 1965 to help the school’s football players replace carbohydrates and electrolytes lost through sweat while playing in swamp-like heat.

“Today with his passing, the University of Florida lost a legend, lost one of its best friends and lost a creative genius,” said Dr. Edward Block, chairman of the department of medicine in the College of Medicine. “Losing any one of those is huge. When you lose all three in one person, it’s something you cannot recoup.”

Now sold in 80 countries in dozens of flavors, Gatorade was born thanks to a question from former Gators coach Dwayne Douglas, Cade said in a 2005 interview with The Associated Press.

He asked, “Doctor, why don’t football players wee-wee after a game?”

“That question changed our lives,” Cade said.

Cade’s researchers determined a football player could lose as much as 18 pounds — 90 to 95 percent of it water — during the three hours it takes to play a game. Players sweated away sodium and chloride and lost plasma volume and blood volume.

Using their research — and about $43 in supplies — they concocted a brew for players to drink while playing football. The first batch was not exactly a hit.

“It sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner,” said Dana Shires, one of the researchers.

“I guzzled it and I vomited,” Cade said.

The researchers added some sugar and some lemon juice to improve the taste. It was first tested on freshmen because coach Ray Graves didn’t want to hurt the varsity team. Eventually, however, the use of the sports beverage spread to the Gators, who enjoyed a winning record and were known as a “second-half team” by outlasting opponents.

After the Gators beat Georgia Tech 27-12 in the Orange Bowl in 1967, Tech coach Bobby Dodd told reporters his team lost because, “`We didn’t have Gatorade … that made the difference.”

Stokely-Van Camp obtained the licensing rights for Gatorade and began marketing it as the “beverage of champions.” PepsiCo Inc. now owns the brand, which has brought the university more than $150 million in royalties since 1973.

Cade said Stokely-Van Camp hated the name “Gatorade,” believing it was too parochial, but stuck with it after tests showed consumers liked the name.

The rest of the story.

It’s a bird, It’s a plane … It’s Tim Tebow

Published by
Steve
at November 26, 2007 in Football, USA and funny. 4 Comments

Tebow had an amazing game against our rival, FSU on Saturday. I don’t think there is anything he could have done differently to show he deserves to win the Heisman this year. Now it’s up to the people who vote.

Here is alittle about the caliber of person Tebow is;

TebowIn high school, with his team holding a precarious 7-point lead in the state championship game, Tebow, an elite quarterback recruit, ran on the field and played nose tackle — nose tackle — without telling his coaches. The other team didn’t score again.

A devout Christian, he grew up on a farm in west Jacksonville, the youngest of five siblings. He spent his high school summers on family missions in the Philippines working alongside his father, Bob, an evangelist, to care for orphans — an experience Tim describes as life-changing. “You’d see people in Dad’s orphanage who had nothing, no material things at all, yet they were so happy to see you,” he says. “That’ll keep you humble.”

Tebowisms:

  • When Tim Tebow does a push-up, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the world down.
  • Superman’s only weakness is Kryptonite. Tim Tebow laughs at Superman for having a weakness.
  • Tim Tebow doesn’t throw interceptions. Receivers run wrong routes.
  • Superman wears Tim Tebow pajamas.
  • You can lead a horse to water. Tim Tebow can make him drink.
  • When the bogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks the closet for Tim Tebow.
  • You don’t hit Tim Tebow. Tim Tebow hits you.
  • Tim Tebow ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.
  • If you Google search ‘Tim Tebow getting his butt kicked’ you will generate zero results. It just doesn’t happen.
  • Terry Tate looks over his shoulder in offices for Tim Teebow.
  • It takes Tim Tebow 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.
  • Life doesn’t give Tim Tebow lemons. Life asks him which fruit he wants.
  • Tim Tebow once ate an entire bottle of sleeping pills. They made him blink.
  • Tim Tebow sweats Gatorade.
  • Tim Tebow always knows the EXACT location of Carmen SanDiego.
  • Tim Tebow can divide by zero.
  • Tim Tebow won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstrong it wasn’t a big deal.
  • Tim Tebow can touch MC Hammer.
  • Tim Tebow doesn’t actually write books, the words assemble themselves out of fear.
  • Tim Tebow ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.
  • Tim Tebow has counted to infinity…. twice.
  • Tim Tebow has never lost or tied in a game of Tic Tac Toe.
  • When it rains in the Swamp, Tim Tebow doesn’t get wet. The rain gets Tim Tebow’d.
  • Tim Tebow’s tears cure cancer, too bad he never cries.
  • Tim Tebow’s chief export is Pain (followed closely by touchdowns.)
  • Tim Tebow doesn’t bowl strikes, he just knocks down one pin and the other nine faint.
  • Tim Tebow invented black. In fact, he invented the entire spectrum of visible light. Except pink. Tom Cruise invented pink.

Do you have a Tebowism to share?