During their championship visit to meet the President, Coach Meyer and some players talk about the team’s significant commitment to community service. Features behind-the-scenes footage of the team’s visit and words from Tim Tebow, Ryan Stamper, and David Nelson.
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Tim Tebow and the rest of his national championship team went to the White House on Thursday so that Mr. President Obama could congratulate the team on their second national championship in three years.
President Obama invoked the words “playoff system” Thursday when the Florida Gators, college football’s national champions the past three seasons, visited the White House.
The president spent eight minutes congratulating the Gators, mentioning several players by name. Near the end of his remarks, as he has done before, Obama again called for a playoff system:
“I don’t want to stir up controversy. You guys are the national champions — I’m not backing off the fact we need a playoff system. But I have every confidence that you guys could have beat anybody else. And so we’ll see how that plays itself out.”
After what surely must have been an awkward pause, Obama added: “I noticed they got all quiet after that.”
According to the White House transcript, that was followed by laughter.
Apparently there was a bit of controversy stirred up by Obamas ‘playoff’ comment as sports announcers on ESPN and other places seemed to feel that Mr. Obama has more pressing matters and that he should keep out of the business of college football. There has been talk of Congress getting involved, at the encouragement of President Obama, in forcing the hand of college football to develop some sort of playoff system.
While I personally would love to see a playoff, I absolutely agree with the guys at ESPN that Mr. Obama has bigger fish to fry and he needs to stick to things that matter a lot more than college football… like people’s livelihoods, their homes, and the safety of American troops deployed around the world.
Obama recognized Tebow by specifically mentioning him during the brief visit. (I really wish Tebow could hang with Obama for a day or two, maybe Obama could benefit from having a little bit of Tebow in his life…)
Obama called Tim Tebow, the Gators’ quarterback, an inspiration for many people. Tebow is a Heisman Trophy winner who speaks openly about his Christian faith.
“He puts faith, family and academics above football. And that’s incredible when you think about what he’s done on the field,” Obama said.
Tebow said in an interview after the ceremony that he appreciated the president’s remarks.
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.
Congratulations Tim, you were the best man!
It meant a great deal to me how Tim Tebow has consistently ‘walked his talk’ in regards to his faith in Jesus Christ and how he was very quick to give thanks to JC upon receiving the Heisman Trophy!
It was also good to see Danny Wuerffel up there, I know that Wuerffel’s testimony had an impact on Tebow.
I hope that Tebow has another year (or two!) of success at the University of Florida. Tebow is not new to breaking records, could he possibly be the first to win the Heisman twice? Is that allowed?
If it is, Tebow has a great chance to do it!
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;
In 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?
Looks like ESPN has a page where fans can vote on their favorite for the Heisman award, and the player who receives the most votes will get one Official vote. Let the popularity contest begin…
Vote Here: https://r.espn.go.com/espn/contests/theheismanvote/
My vote goes to Tim Tebow, hands down – and that’s not just because I’m a Gator!
Every season, thousands of arguments between friends occur on the subject of college football. Some quarrel about different teams, others take aim at certain coaching decisions. But no subject in the sport causes more of an uproar than the Heisman Trophy, given annually to the best player in college football. There are several different theories on who is most deserving of winning the Heisman, and since the award’s description itself doesn’t provide the exact criteria needed to win the statue, it is not always clear who should win.
Some say it should go to the best senior on a good team – kind of like a lifetime achievement award. If that were the case, then this year’s winner probably should be Oregon QB Dennis Dixon, who (before a knee injury) led the Ducks to a top ten ranking and accounted for 29 total touchdowns (running and throwing).
Another argument is that the best future pro prospect should win the award. Too many times, as with Jason White and Eric Crouch in recent memory, the award has gone to somebody who hasn’t gone on to success in the NFL, or even to any NFL career at all. This, in many people’s opinion, tarnishes the award’s value. In these people’s minds, Arkansas running back Darren McFadden – who has run for over 1,500 yards and is the number one player on Scouts Inc.’s 2008 Draft preview – should be the award winner.
A different theory says that statistics alone should decide the Heisman Trophy. Arguments could then be made for Texas Tech wide receiver Michael Crabtree – who has over 1,800 receiving yards and 21 touchdown catches – or LSU defensive tackle Glen Dorsey, who has wreaked havoc on opposing quarterbacks and running backs all season long with 55 tackles and six sacks.
But if the award goes to the best all-around player, regardless of position, age, draft hype or team record, then the only clear choice for the 2007 Heisman Trophy is University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow.
Looking for a reason NOT to vote Tim Tebow for the Heisman Trophy? OK, here’s one: The kid is too darn good to be true.
An athletic freak. A charismatic leader. Good looking, charitable. Jim Brown on the football field and Mother Teresa off it. Please, enough already. He’s already got it all, do we really need to give him a bronze statue, too.
Here’s a poor reason to keep the award from Tebow: He’s an underclassmen.
All kidding aside, the Florida quarterback should now stand as the clear front-runner in what has been a slow-developing Heisman race. Only juniors and seniors have won college football’s most prestigious award. Tebow is a sophomore and it shouldn’t make a difference to those filling out ballots.
source: The Canadian Press
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