God, please make this stop.
The next Tebow?
The similarities are remarkable.
At 6 feet 3 and 225 pounds, Florida freshman quarterback Trey Burton is built like Tim Tebow.
Like Tebow, Burton went to a Florida high school. Burton graduated from Venice. Tebow went to Nease in Ponte Vedra.
Like Tebow, Burton entered Florida early, arriving on campus in January.
Like Tebow, his running skills are his strength. Burton rushed for 123 yards and two TDs on 10 carries in the Gators’ spring game.
Like Tebow, he’s spending his freshman year as a backup.
And like Tebow, Burton has a strong Christian faith.
“I just want to do whatever I possibly can to get this team to [the SEC Championship game],” Burton told the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune. “I don’t care if it is washing people’s shoes or carrying water bottles. I am not really trying to prove anything to anyone. I am just going to go out there and try to make plays.”
What, no Filipino circumcision experiences to compare? Maybe next summer…
Get The Picture 
Just read that on the AJC before perusing over here. Isn’t this the converted tight end? He sure didn’t mention that one. They both went to a high school in Florida. OH. MY. GOD. (in a Chris Farley voice).
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I’m wondering if Meyer recruited them both as linebackers.
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+1 for the handle
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Correction: Timmy never went to high school in Florida. He was homeschooled and his mother gave him his grades. He also didn’t live in PVB or Jacksonville. He was from Baker County–Macclenny, FL.
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Correction: Tebow was home schooled, but he played football for Nease. He grew up in Jacksonville, but he moved to an apartment in the Nease district to allow him to play for that school.
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Welcome to the future!
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The difference between Herschel and Tebow (and UGA fans & UF fans, for that matter):
We knew there’d never be another Herschel. They can’t stop thinking about who will be the next Tebow. Legends can’t be replaced, only emulated.
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Tebow went to Nease in Ponte Vedra.
Uh, no Tebow played football for Nease. He was home schooled.
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Tebow was born from a mother.
Burton was born from a mother.
Coincidence? I think not
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That’s eerie, man.
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But was Burton’s mother a virgin?
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Close the thread. We have a winner.
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I hear they both have noses and ears as well, but at this point that is unconfirmed.
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Well, Burton did have them, but they were removed by St. Timmy during circumcision.
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Burton also breathes air and blinks when his eyes get dried out.
No word yet on whether he flails his arms in an unsportsmanlike manner after a 3 yard gain while the officials stand idly by.
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Here’s another similarity: Tebow lead his team to beat-down victories over UGA causing dawg fans to whine incessantly and Burton soon will be doing the same thing.
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Except in the year that he suffers a shoulder injury. 😉
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Nah, that was an end zone celebration-driven victory.
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You’re the only member of Gator Nation who believes that. 😉
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Just kidding. UGA would win the 2007 game without Tebow’s shoulder injury and without any end zone celebration. However, Urban Meyer owes Mark Richt a debt of gratitude for the end zone celebration. It may be decades before the dawgs beat UF again.
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It was worth every one of those 15 yards.
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Yup.
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30 yards. still worth it
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correction, 22.5… but would have been okay with kicking off our goal line
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That second one was ridiculous. I don’t recognize it.
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Really? So why don’t they do it every year if it is worth it? In fact, why not EVERY GAME?? Since it is worth the consequences and you couldn’t be full of shit, please explain why the dawgs are not doing a full-team, on-field celebration on every play!
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That’s easy. It takes a lot of time to plan one of those and they’ve been too busy lately figuring out which jersey colors to wear to have time for that.
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Plus, we decided that rather than penalize ourselves, we would rather spot the other team the 40 on our kickoffs.
It’s more challenging that way.
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That didn’t even make sense. Are you drunk?
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I should ask you the same question. Breathing? Blinking? Really??!!
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The guy writing this is not a Florida fan, so it is not like UF is pushing this stuff.
Anytime a great player passes through a college team, I think there is tendency for this to happen
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I, for one, remember ESPN hyping Greg Newton as the next Christian Laettner.
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Off the top of my head, I can name several UGA running backs that UGA fans touted as the next Herschel Walker. Caleb King is the most recent
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Tim Tebow ain’t nothin’ but a pussy
http://theantiorangepage.com/pages/249
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Yeah, right.
No one in their right minds was touting King as the next Herschel.
I can appreciate the UF people who come to this blog and actually contribute something worthwhile, but just about everything you post on here is bullshit intended to provoke.
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Herschel Walker Cuyler Them Dawgs is Hell Don’t They
http://squarebush.blogspot.com/2008/10/gator-hater-squidbillies-style.html
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The main difference being,Tebow walks on water while Burton merely drinks it.
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This stuff makes it impossible to watch Florida football from an outsider’s perspective. There is not enough worth in the endeavor to counteract the overhype.
I was actually going to watch last year’s Sugar Bowl but once the TEBOW CAM was introduced, I went and did something else.
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Has anyone checked with Chuck Norris to see if he’s got his Burton pajamas yet?
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What if Burton’s mom had had an abortion.We wouldn’t have been blessed with the opportunity to make these comparisons.Count your blessings guys.
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One clarification on the GPOOE, Senator. He did not “go” to Nease in Ponte Vedra, but he did play football there. He was actually home-schooled. The Tebow family lived in Jacksonville, but after finding a program that fit their needs, the family was able to meet whatever residency requirements were necessary so the young man could play across the county line at Nease.
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Nice try. He was simply reposting an article that had already been posted.
To your point, though, you’re telling me that the Tebow family sought after a way to bend the rules to their favor? The horror.
The guy was a great college QB. Maybe he’ll be a great pro. He may even be a great person, but I’m sure the point here is that we’re all a little bit tired of the overexposure. Even some of the moderate to liberal minded Gator folks I’ve spoken with are about ready to put Tebow and fanatical faith behind them.
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As one of those Gator fans, I can say that I tired of the Tebow hype long ago. But the hype was not Tim’s doing.
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He did nothing to curb it, he ate every bit of it up
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Jeebus.
Thin gruel indeed
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He actually incited a lot of it with some of his antics, like running around doing the Gator chomp after not only touchdowns but first downs. The hot dog antics of Tebow turn off real athletes and only play to the masses who have never worn a jock strap, which is most of the Gator fans and the idiot sports media. What I expect will happen, not this year but when Burton becomes the starter (if CUM is still there), is that Burton will post statistics that are almost identical to Tebow’s. It’s the system guys. When the offense gets down close to the endzone the QB in that system either runs it in or passes it in. He gets credit for the TD either way. Except for the “20/20” business the QBs at Bowling Green and Utah put up almost exactly the same numbers as Tebow and we now know (from their NFL careers) that they really aren’t very good QBs. Time will expose Tebow, too. The Gators won because of their excellent D, not because of Tebow. I still am surprised that a D-line guy didn’t beat the crap out of him for stealing all the credit for the Gators winning. I think Tebow really believes that BS.
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Jacksonville = Duval County, FL
Macclenny = Baker County, FL
Timmy is from Macclenny. He wound up in PVB after his father’s ministry was donated a PVB apartment.
Homeschooled students can pretty much shop for the school they want to attend here in FL.
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That’s what Nancy Grace said…i think…and He even has legislation named after him before He has been Raptured up to the sky to the flying saucer spaghetti monster or, is it, He’s already been raptured down, whatever, i forget, just shoot somebody…
http://yourkidsnotgoingpro.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/tim-tebow-has-not-been-kidnapped-and-murdered/
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You’re right Melody, he skipped across two (or was it three?) county lines…. I believe he was attending (or planning to attend) a small Christian school in Jacksonville (University Christian perhaps) but the coach wasn’t going to let him play QB. I’m sure he’s a good kid, but there’s no question that his dad shopped him around until he found a system to his liking. I guess one cannot blame the GPOOE for taking advantage of FHSAA rules that permitted him to play for a school where he never saw a classroom.
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wasn’t the gpooe homeschooled?
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He was homeschooled in Gainesville, too.
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Memory indicates a particularly tough lesson in Atlanta.
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Definitely home schooled, as borne out by his Wonderlic score.
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Surely, this columnist will be smited for bearing false witness of the second coming of The Tebow.
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I put this in a chart for you ‘tards.
UGA – I hate Tebow
UF – I hate Bowden
AU – I hate Bammers
Bammers – I hate Education
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🙂
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GT – I hate passing
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They don’t hate it… they just can’t do it… like dating attractive women.
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Similar to Athens. They don’t hate teeth at UGA, but so few of them have any.
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Or long pants in Gainesville, I mean jorts-city.
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Believe it or not, even you too can learn how to raise up a Devine Child by signing up for the “Bringing Up Tim Tebow” seminar. Get your tickets and tinsnips now…
http://trueslant.com/bobcook/2010/04/16/tim-tebows-parents-teach-you-how-to-raise-your-own-divine-child/
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The antichrist is a charlatan.
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As a Georgia fan I hope that they use this dude like Tebow. There is no way that we are unlucky enough or that the Universe is consistent enough for another Tebow to come along so soon. So please play a QB that throws ducks, please play a QB who releases the ball that slowly, please allow there to be another QB who with his every throw puts his receivers in a position to be killed. If this is so I feel like we’ll be in good shape because as I look around in Athens there is no way that we can be considered unlucky.
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The answer is yes, Quincy Carter, could not stand him. Was glad to see him not play for CMR and he moved on to the NFL. He was a disgrace to call him a DAWG.
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Most people who recognize my name here know I am a hardcore dawg fan.
But to all the Tebow haters: Do you really think if he had been a bulldog, doing some bulldog variant on the gator chomp after every TD/first down, and getting away with it, ANY of us would have called him out for it? Of course not.
Do I think it was lame of him? Yes. But I am honest enough to admit that if it had been “my guy”, I would have looked the other way on something that is ultimately irrelevant.
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But he wasn’t our guy, muck. And that, among a long string of things stated above, is why he sucks.
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Again, I don’t hate Tebow – quite the opposite. How can you not respect the kid for what he’s accomplished?
But the Tebow-hype is another story.
As for your hypothetical, I’ll put it this way. David Greene and David Pollack are two of my favorite Dawgs ever, but all of those people who complained about the constant tongue-bathing folks like Uncle Verne gave them had a point. Hell, by their last season, I winced a little when I heard it.
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The good Senator gets it
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Just to be clear (and if you go back and re-read my comment) I wasn’t talking about the hype. I was specifically talking about the people who trash Tebow for stuff like the gator chomp. I agree that even fans get annoyed when a favorite player gets over hyped – if for no other reason that fear of a hype-karma-backlash.
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Thanks for the honesty. It’s very refresheshing.
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Sorry reply to the wrong post:
The answer is yes, Quincy Carter, could not stand him. Was glad to see him not play for CMR and he moved on to the NFL. He was a disgrace to call him a DAWG
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