Although this is seemingly unrelated to anything, I have to write this because Matt probably won’t.
Today Matt and I were almost run over by Tim Tebow, quarterback for The Gators, on his motor scooter. We were walking along University; he was making a left; Matt let out a yelp.
We weren’t really in real danger. I’m fairly confident Tebow saw us. The funny thing is that this is the second time Matt has almost been run over by Tebow on a scooter, and so the conversation went like this.
Matt: “Hey look, there’s Tebow on his scooter.”
Me: “Oh really?”
Matt: “Ohmigod I don’t think he sees us.” [yelps and runs, truly fearful]
Matt was not really fearful of his life. He’s more afraid of being “that guy,” or the guy that Tebow hits (because it will happen eventually at the rate he’s going), causing Tebow to be thrown violently off his scooter and hurt badly enough to have to sit out a few games.
Matt doesn’t want to be that guy, and I don’t blame him.
If anyone else has had a near brush with death involving a football player or other campus celebrity, do tell. There might be a larger trend going on here.
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magzalez // December 10, 2007 at 1:56 am
Now that Tebow has won the Heisman, I’m starting to think I could have been famous, or at least the tread marks his scooter would have left down my back could have been.