As I have mentioned on this blog before, I am a Florida Gator fan and have been for a long time now and this past year we witnessed something motivating, spectacular and amazing. After failing to convert on a fourth and one, the gators lost to Ole Miss 31-30. Immediately following the loss, Heisman winner and leader of the gator nation, Tim Tebow gave a speech that will now go down into the history, of not only sports, but in Florida University History. Tebow apologized for not converting the play and losing the opportunity to achieve a perfect season, something that has not been done in schools history. He promised the gator nation that no other player would work as hard as he would, not other player would push a team as hard as he would push the gators and that they would not lose another game. That promised motivated the gators and help them to another SEC championship and more importantly a second national title in two years. That speech has now been posted on the wall of one of the buildings on the UF campus. There is a very impressive article that you can read about the speech and the newly formed plaque. it is found at http://deadspin.com/5180855/tim-tebows-promise-will-outlast-us-all
If you don't want to check it out here is the article:
The Promise
We lost this in the March Madness shuffle, but it must not go unmentioned that Tim Tebow's immortal pledge has finally been consecrated in stone. So it is written, so it has been done.
A plaque has been affixed to the football building on the Florida campus, bearing an inscription titled, "The Promise." This simple piece of stainless steel holds the text of Tim Tebow's famous speech following the Gators' loss to Mississippi back in September of last season. You know, the speech that earned Tebow the Oscar for Best Guts. The monument will stand as an eternal testament to Earth's greatest human and 500,000 years from now, when alien archeologists dig up this everlasting tribute from the watery ruins of our failed civilization, even they will understand the true meaning of perseverance and fortitude. Then they will use the inscription to reanimate Tebow's corpse so it may lead them to win the GCS (Galatic Championship Series) title game. Yes, there is still no playoff.
A plaque has been affixed to the football building on the Florida campus, bearing an inscription titled, "The Promise." This simple piece of stainless steel holds the text of Tim Tebow's famous speech following the Gators' loss to Mississippi back in September of last season. You know, the speech that earned Tebow the Oscar for Best Guts. The monument will stand as an eternal testament to Earth's greatest human and 500,000 years from now, when alien archeologists dig up this everlasting tribute from the watery ruins of our failed civilization, even they will understand the true meaning of perseverance and fortitude. Then they will use the inscription to reanimate Tebow's corpse so it may lead them to win the GCS (Galatic Championship Series) title game. Yes, there is still no playoff.
