Both guys in this post share a birthday on Saturday.
First we'll look at the younger, soon-to-be 23-year-old
Tim Tebow. What's he got himself up to since his
Gator days, only a few months ago ended? I thought he might go back into missionary work, but he decided to go pro, and got drafted by the
Denver Broncos. That's going to be some adjustment, 'cause
Denver is about as un-Florida-like as you can get in the US.
I think he'll do well, though. I don't like football in general, and Gator anything in particular, but I like Tebow. Yes, the
hulking physicality is a turn-on, that's a given. The slight lisp softens that, though. He also impressed me as being very grounded and down to earth.
I never understood the hating on him. He's talented, not
an idiot or
a criminal or
likely to become one. Actually a role model, which is increasingly rare in sports or with any famous people anymore. I only wish him well.
Mind you, if he ever was convinced to do underwear modelling, I wouldn't complain. Sadly, with his
religious beliefs, I doubt he'd do it. Probably consider it borderline pornographic, at best. Mind you, he'd be right. But one can always hope.
Well, I'm happy to stand corrected. I write a lot of these posts in advance, when I get in a writing and wallpaper-making mood. When I wrote the previous bit, I couldn't have dreamed I'd get my wish. Just a couple of weeks ago, he announced he would be the new spokesman for Jockey. Sometimes, dreams do come true.
One of the more amusing things to me is the whole
man-crush/
man-love phenomena that whirled around Tebow. I wanna say it started with
this article, but it was going on way before that, definitely before he won the
Heisman. But you know, if there was any guy that could make a straight guy think twice, it'd be Timmy. Multiple examples to be found
here.
It was a bit weird the last couple of years to be so near the center of all that man-love. To think, I could've driven up the road and maybe seen him work out in the
O'Dome weight room. Or watched him practicing or running up the stairs at
the Swamp. But not in a stalker way or anything. 'Cause the dude could
bench press me without breaking a sweat. Mmm, now there's a thought...
A little ditty I thought up, to the tune of
Chim Chim Cher-ee:
Tim Timiny, Tim Timiny, Tim Tim Tebow
Good luck will rub off on all those that you know
Tim Timiny, Tim Timiny, Tim Tim Tee-bee
I hope that someday I will shake hands with thee
I'd love to do more, but that ain't likely
I've kinda liked
Chris Gorham (who'll be 36) since his
Popular days. He's done a good bit of SF genre work, like
Jake 2.0. In which he often appeared shirtless. He had an OK bod, but I liked his personality and acting more. Then, only about 5 years later, he took his top off on
Ugly Betty. Criminees, boy has been working
out! He's got it going on all over, and is several orders of magnitude hotter than he was 10 years ago. Take note, current crop of 20-something pretty boys.
This is a goal towards which to aspire. See more of what I'm talking about
here.
