For the rest of the article:For the most part, Tim Tebow's career has been defined by the same kind of "rah-rah" emotions he displays on the sidelines or activities he does in his down time or messages he sports on his eye-black: Throughout 2008, he wore Philippians 4:13, expressing strength through Christ; he made John 3:16 the No. 1 item in Google Trends after last January's national title game; for the season opener against Charleston Southern, he advertised Proverbs 3:5-6; and last week against Troy wore Mark 8:36, which asks, "What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?"
The symbolism of the eye-black messages is reflected on the field: When Tebow throttles an opponent, it is done with a kind of earnest myopia -- it's not you, it's me! There are beat-downs, sure, but there's not a whole lot of good old-fashioned smiting going on.
And yet there is another side to Tebow. Sometimes you'll see it in clips inside the locker room, or TV camera shots of him going crazy on the sidelines (like that shot of him last year at Florida State, in a downpour, looking like William Wallace). Most notably, we saw it late in the national-title game against Oklahoma, when Tebow picked up an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty against Oklahoma, for doing the Gator Chomp in Oklahoma safety Nic Harris's face:
It was, arguably, Tebow's finest (and most human) moment: Get past the saintly-life stuff, and there's a taste of vindictiveness down there. Who can't relate to that?
That's the Tebow I like to refer to as "Old Testament Tebow" -- or "O.T. Tebow." (To be sure, there is violence in the New Testament. But for good ol' righteous vengeance, there's nothing like the O.T.) And it's the Tebow we should see Saturday against Tennessee, a game that calls for more than a little old-fashioned vengeance.
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He will exact Revenge...he doesnt like it when ppl talk bad about his coach
If you click on the link "more than a little old-fashioned vengeance."
There is this gem.
"Ask Mark Richt about that. Mark Richt is the nicest human being on the planet, a man who takes in the stray children of the world, bonds with his players in teary team meetings, and probably always leaves too much money in the Starbucks’ tip jar even though the barista simply turned, poured coffee, and then presented said coffee to you. Mark Richt is a saint walking among us, and Urban Meyer dropped a motherfucking safe on him and Georgia for dancing. Dancing. Dancing is festive, celebratory, nay, even cheeky, and Urban Meyer took that as justification to put UGA on the rack for four quarters and call timeouts at the end to prolong the agony."
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