If you somehow missed it, Tim Tebow was the subject of this week’s GQ cover story, featuring some pictures he apparently posed for several years ago.
They’re kind of mesmerizing, but as far as this site is concerned it’s Mark Sanchez or GTFO. I’m fine with Tebow looking handsome and smiling earnestly and hypnotizing beat writers if the Jets use him appropriately, but he’s yet to make clear his stance on Taco Bell and I don’t think he even owns a boat phone.
http://web.sny.tv/media/video.jsp?content_id=23917821
Yeah but later in the practice Tim Tebow nearly completed a 10-yard in.
For what it’s worth, real-life friend Bill spent all four years of high school trying to do the exact same thing before football practice.
You see, it’s ironic because- well, no, I guess it’s postmodern, because, you see… no. Meta, it’s meta in that- OH GOD I’M DOING IT TOO
https://twitter.com/JennyVrentas/status/228581528043675648
Hey, football stuff is happening.
It’s R.A. Dickey and he’s saying stuff:
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If I seemed uninformed here, it’s because I don’t really follow college football and I don’t follow a lot of the run-up to the NFL Draft. Three reasons: 1) It comes during baseball season, 2) It creates a ton of foot traffic in the area immediately surrounding my office building, and 3) It seems like a lot of hype for an uncertain payoff. I wrote all about this last year, and all that still holds.
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Whether any of this gets the Jets closer to the Super Bowl is another question entirely. Both Sanchez and Tebow are very nice people, much nicer than the cynical newspaper columnists who call them nice people.
Tebow doesn’t hurl his religion at anybody. He wouldn’t have mentioned, four times, “my Lord, Jesus Christ,” if reporters hadn’t pressed him on the issue. That’s what the media does – bring it up and then roll their eyes.
– Filip Bondy, N.Y. Daily News.
You said it, man. Watching Tim Tebow’s introductory news conference yesterday, all I could think was how weird the dynamic is, the strange tango: So many (not all, but many) reporters asking questions that seemed aimed to elicit a controversial response, and Tebow finding ways to answer them without undercutting Mark Sanchez or revealing his personal politics or doubting his new or old coaches or really saying anything at all except that he’s excited to be a Jet and that he’s a devout Christian.
And since Tebow danced through it like Fred Astaire, so smoothly and with such a broad smile, now we know he “handles the media well.”
Everyone involved has a job to do, I realize. I doubt many — if any — of the 250-some media at the event woke up thinking, “I can’t wait to do everything I can to make this 24-year-old aw-shucks folk-hero look stupid or inconsiderate or mean or foolishly righteous on his first day of his new job” or anything like that. Everyone needs to satisfy someone and most are competing for eyeballs somewhere. The beast is us.
At the Village Voice, Robert Sietsema reviews the Carnegie Deli’s new Tim Tebow-themed sandwich, which hardly deserves that name since it clearly cannot be eaten like a sandwich as served.
Here’s what I said when the Carnegie Deli pulled this last February. It still holds:
I probably won’t eat that sandwich. I understand it’s all the rage right now and it represents the rare intersection of sandwiches and sports (outside of this blog, of course), but that’s not really an edible sandwich you see above. That’s like six vaguely edible sandwiches. And sure, you could go in with three friends and ask for extra rye and deconstruct the sandwich so you all get reasonable portions of all the ingredients. I get that. But that’s like cheating on behalf of the place you’re paying $22 for a sandwich.
Look: I appreciate the Carnegie Deli for all it has done for lunchmeats and celebrities through the years, but there’s no art to piling up all the meats in the house sky high and naming it after the city’s newest famous sports hero. That’s gimmickry. Amateur hour.
I, for one, would like to eat a carefully constructed sandwich that evokes the understated elegance of Carlos Beltran at his best, or a burrito that embodies the transcendent dominance of Darrelle Revis.
Who will make me Revis: The Burrito? Not the heavy-handed vulgarians responsible for the Carmelo Anthony sandwich, that’s for sure.
Village Voice link via Deadspin, Deadspin link via Jen Connic.
Larry Granillo at Baseball Prospectus passes along video of the Marlins’ Home Run Thing in action:
It’s spectacular.
A Tim Tebow joke I made on Twitter got quoted in the Metropolitan section of Sunday’s New York Times. Check it out. They even copy-edited me, adding a comma where I omitted one.
The Gray Lady, reduced to fishing for pageviews from area sandwich blogs?
Thanks to @CoreyNYC for pointing it out.
Tedquarters 