Gotta to give up to that fine world class education system in gainesville...Harvard of the South- Hardly!
A reversal of sounds in two words, with humorous effect. Spoonerisms were named after William Spooner, an English clergyman and scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In one spoonerism attributed to him, he meant "May I show you to another seat?" but said, "May I sew you to another sheet?"
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GAINESVILLE, Fla.
-- Tim Tebow's speech following a home loss to Mississippi last September motivated Florida the rest of the season.
Coach Urban Meyer hopes it can do the same for anyone else in Gainesville. Carlos Dunlap DUI, This just in: Flood warnings posted for Atlanta. In other news, Tim Tebow continues to cry after getting rolled by the TIDE!
Meyer had Tebow's speech engraved on a plaque and placed outside the front entrance to the new football facility at Florida Field. Although it might seem like a strange move since Tebow still has one year remaining with the Gators, Meyer said he didn't want to wait.
"I'm not interested in 10 years from now because who knows if we're -- I might be toes up somewhere," Meyer said Wednesday as Florida opened spring practice. "I'm not a big fan of, 'Hey, let's wait down the road.' It was a speech that everybody in Gator Nation has a right to see on the side of the building."
Tebow's speech was an emotional promise he made after the Rebels upset Florida 31-30 on Sept. 27. Fighting back tears, Tebow vowed that no one would in the nation would work harder than him and his teammates the rest of the year. The Gators responded by running the table and beating Oklahoma 24-14 to win the program's second national title in three years.
Tebow, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner, said Wednesday he hadn't seen the plaque that was put up two weeks ago. He already has a replica of his jersey hanging on a wall inside the stadium, part of a tribute to the school's three Heisman Trophy winners, so getting his speech immortalized might have been a little ho-hum for the 6-foot-3, 245-pound quarterback.
"I guess it's nice because it's the university honoring our team and what we accomplished and what that represents and all the work that we put in," Tebow said. "I guess it's cool to have something you said up there. It means a lot to some people, so I think that's cool."
Tebow said he has been too busy to check out the plaque. He spent spring break on a missionary trip with his family in the Philippines, speaking at elementary schools, high schools and colleges and visiting marketplaces and the orphanage his father helps run.
"Just doing a lot of ministering everywhere possible," Tebow said.
Tebow returned last week, watched several of his teammates work out for NFL scouts, coaches and general managers and then counted down the day until he could get back on the field. He opened spring practice looking to replace receivers Percy Harvin and Louis Murphy and both offensive tackles, but without many more questions.
The Gators return their entire defense and everyone else on offense.
Offensive lineman Matt Patchan was one of a handful of players who missed practice. Patchan injured his left leg in a scooter accident, but Meyer said he could return next week. Defensive tackles John Brown and Torrey Davis, two high-profile recruits two years ago, have left the team. Meyer said neither will be back this fall, but hinted that Davis could return after possibly attending a junior college.
Tebow, meanwhile, took snaps from under center and started work with new quarterbacks coach Scot Loeffler in the hurry-up offense. The Gators want to take a look at the hurry-up this spring after seeing how it helped the Sooners reach the title game last season.
Tebow believes it could make a difference, and given what happened after his speech last season, his teammates certainly won't question him.
"I felt like he was a prophet for saying it," linebacker Brandon Spikes said. "He just said it and we got it done. He was a prophet."
Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press
Tebow was considered one of the nation's top recruits and was the subject of an ESPN "Faces in Sports" documentary.
More from Bobby Bowden on the Great Tim Tebow-Charlie Ward Debate of 2009
It all started right here, ladies and gentlemen, on The Chopping Block. The other day after Florida State practice, I approached Bobby Bowden with a quick question. I wanted to know who he thought was the best player he'd coached at Florida State. Didn't take him long to name Charlie Ward. And in thinking of Ward, he thought about Tim Tebow.
You know the rest by now. Bowden said he didn't think Tebow was better than Ward. But he never definitively said whether he thought Ward was better than Tebow. Well today was the first chance to ask Bowden for some clarification. So a couple of us tried to delve deeper into the debate that lit up the 'Net: Who's better - Tebow or Ward? Ward or Tebow?
Steve Ellis of the Tallahassee Democrat was the first to give it a shot. "Who's the best," Ellis began to ask. "Tebow or Charlie?"
And Bowden laughed for a moment. He said, "OK, I don't think I said that," and it was obvious what he was referring to: the incorrect assertion that he said Ward was better. Bowden didn't say that. At least not technically. So he continued on.
"It's kind of like, hey, y'all forget about Charlie," Bowden said. "It's kind of like that - hey, you're all talking about how great [Tebow], and he is. [But] dang, y'all forget about Charlie. Charlie only started [at quarterback] two years for us. We won a national championship one year. Probably came out close to second the other year, you know.
"But, I know when somebody asks me about Tebow being the best ever, my thought was, ‘Can he run better than Charlie? Can he throw better than Charlie? Did he punt?' Charlie [as] a freshman, Charlie punted for us. And so anyway, I'm evading your answer."
Got to love Bowden's honesty. At least he admitted he was evading answering the question. Ellis persisted, though, and told Bowden it'd have to be difficult for him to pick a Florida player over a Florida State player.
"It'd be mighty hard," Bowden said. "Be mighty hard. Charlie was such a - when you went out there with him, I'm sure they feel the same way about Tebow, when we went out there with Charlie you just felt like he's going to win that game, somehow. You know it? If a play breaks down, he still might make a good play out of it. I remember against Virginia one time, a play broke down, he ran for a touchdown up there, his first year. Next year, he did it again."
Bowden spoke for a few seconds more, stopped and posed the question to us, the guys standing around his golf cart.
"Which one's better? I'll let y'all decide that."
And with that, it was my turn. If you had to pick one of two to win a game, I began to ask, who would it be?
"I would take Charlie, probably, over anybody in the country," Bowden said.
Ever?
"It'd be mighty hard. [Roger] Staubach wasn't bad. Joe Namath wasn't bad. I can name lot of other pretty good ones. But Charlie could do so many things when a play broke down. Oh, gosh, you could get him in the pocket - remember against Miami? Got him back there in the pocket and he got flushed out and he ran to his left, couldn't find anything, came back to his right, threw a touchdown pass? Of course, this kid down there does the same thing, you know."
Then Bowden came to it. His final answer. It's the one that makes the most sense. It's the one you can't argue. It's the one that likely will appease those who think Ward is better, and appease those who think Tebow is better. It is, simply, the best answer Bowden could have offered.
"The answer to your question," Bowden said while he laughed, "is which school did you got to? That is the answer - which school did you go to?"
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