New Internet craze, Tebowing, ‘Tebowing’ becomes latest craze after Denver’s win on Sunday. That Denver beat Miami on Sunday was exciting. But the celebratory actions from a few Broncos fans honoring quarterback Tim Tebow took the game to an unexpected level.
Enter “tebowing.” According to the Tumblr blog tebowing.com, it’s a verb that means “to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different.”
It all started after Sunday’s victory, when Denver native Jared Kleinstein, who watched the game with friends in a New York City bar, saw that Tebow knelt on the sidelines in prayer while the rest of the team celebrated. After Kleinstein and his group left the bar, they took a picture that honored Tebow by striking the same pose.
After the photo received positive feedback on Facebook, Kleinstein created tebowing.com this week as a tribute to Tebow, he said. The site has received almost 500,000 views, and people have submitted their own photos to be displayed, too, which include a man tebowing outside an oil rig in North Dakota and a child striking the now famous pose in a Batman suit.
“Love him or hate him, but Tebow fever is contagious,” Kleinstein told the Denver Post. “It’s a lot of fun, and that’s why this worked so well.”
NFL news
•San Diego Chargers Pro Bowl left guard Kris Dielman said he’ll sit out Monday’s game against the Chiefs because of a concussion suffered in a road loss to the New York Jets on Sunday. Left tackle Marcus McNeill and tight end Antonio Gates are expected to play in Kansas City.
•Security personnel at NFL games will begin using hand-held metal detectors as part of the screening process before fans, reporters and working personnel enter the stadiums beginning Nov. 20.
•An official scoring change is now giving the Miami Dolphins credit for six sacks instead of seven on Denver quarterback Tim Tebow. During its review of plays, the NFL and the Elias Sports Bureau determined that a second-quarter play originally ruled a sack was a designed run by Tebow.
•A publicist for Terrell Owens said Owens “absolutely” did not attempt suicide or overdose on pills earlier this month. In a statement, publicist Diana Bianchini said an assistant arrived at Owens’ home on Oct. 6 after he had taken a sleeping aid to fall asleep. The assistant did not realize that, became concerned and called 911. Bianchini says that when police arrived, Owens was responsive.
•The Bears released veteran safety Chris Harris after he asked for a trade, ending his second run with the team. Coach Lovie Smith said the move had been building over several weeks of subpar play. tebowing, tim tebow, Tim Tebow prayer pose, planking owling, Tebowing.com,
•A cadre of Minnesota legislators opposed to putting public money into a deal for a new Vikings stadium acknowledged they’d let the team flee the state rather than let themselves be strong-armed into cutting a deal at any price. The Vikings have four games remaining on their Metrodome lease and have made it clear that they won’t re-up without assurances that a new stadium will be built. Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak, meanwhile, laid out two funding options and three possible sites in a bid to keep the team from bolting from the city to the suburbs.
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