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McElroy, Ingram Reduce Tebow to Tears

Dec 5, 2009 – 9:52 PM
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Jay Mariotti

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ATLANTA -- One last time, he stood with his teammates on the Florida sideline and tried to Tebow them. He screamed, pounded his heart, pumped his fist, tried a few Gator Chomp gestures, urged them to find the resolve to win a game that would determine the end of his legacy. The feature-length, inspirational movie that is Tim Tebow's college life was not supposed to end with tears dripping onto his eyeblack, where he paid tribute to JOHN 16:33. He implored his guys to fight, bleed, overcome a 13-point deficit.

"I was trying to get everybody going, the sideline going, the fans going,'' Tebow said.

But on Alabama's very next possession, the player who came into the national title game -- all right, the SEC Championship Game -- as the "other'' quarterback continued to do a better Tebow impression than Tebow himself. Greg McElroy rolled out, took off on a full-blown sprint, spun, tip-toed balletically through defenders and dove to the Florida two-yard line. Two plays later, Mark Ingram scored his third touchdown of the day. The Florida fans began to grab their coats on a chilly Southern night. The Alabama fans launched a mass celebration that brought Dixie down.

Like that, college football history was rewritten Saturday.
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