Since the OJ murder case
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Good one. I haven't heard that one before. Very true.Comment -
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I haven't heard it since early November.Comment -
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Sorry... Just got out of my caveComment -
Tim Tebow cutout a
hit at Iowa prom
Tim Tebow did his best Flat Stanley
impression at the recent Kingsley-Pierson
High School prom in Iowa.
A homemade cardboard visage of the
former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL
quarterback appeared on the arm of
senior Rachel Bird, a basketball player and
cheerleader.
Bird was dateless for this spring rite of
passage, so she sent Tebow a message via
Twitter and invited him to prom as her
date. A devout Lutheran, Bird likes Tebow's
faith-on-his-sleeve approach to life and
his football skills, and "he's not bad
looking, either," she said.
"A lot of my friends are guys, and they
were involved with girls," she said. "I didn't
want to go with just anybody just to have a
date. So I thought I would give it a shot."
Bird never heard from Tebow, whose
ability to rally the Denver Broncos to
fourth-quarter victories last season
sparked a nationwide "Tebowmania"
phenomenon.
She shrugged off mild disappointment and
put Tebow out of her mind. She decided to
attend prom with a group of friends. But as
the days grew closer, Bird started to feel
like a third wheel. Her friends had dates,
and she didn't want to be the only girl at
the table alone.
Bird floated an idea: What if she took a
Tebow standee — a cardboard cutout of
the popular quarterback, who has since
been signed by the New York Jets?
Friends laughed and encouraged her.
Everybody thought it would be funny. Her
mom blanched a bit, though.
"We didn't want her to be embarrassed,"
Carol Bird said.
Rachel abandoned the plan. Then prom
Saturday arrived. She decided Tebow was
going to be her date — even if he were
only a quarter-inch thick.
"We wanted her to have fun with her friends
and have a nice memory — and it's
definitely something people will remember
for years," Carol said. "She's not usually
outgoing like this. She really came out of
her shell for this one."
An office supply store in Sioux City had a
sale on poster printing. Rachel already had
picked up a photo of a dressed-up Tebow.
She paid $20 to get it life-sized.
She called her dad Bob to help her get her
date ready. The pair went to the local
hardware store and fished out a large p
iece of cardboard. Together, father and
daughter cut the cardboard and the
poster. Bob assembled a stand for the Flat
Tebow and helped Rachel glue the poster
in place.
He even loaned Flat Tebow some cologne.
"The piece of cardboard we found smelled
strongly of wood glue," Rachel said. "We
sprayed a little on him to kind of hide that."
Flat Tebow might have been made of
paper and cardboard, but he was anything
but a stiff at the prom. Girls wanted to
dance with him. Boys got their picture
taken with him.
"I think more people took their picture with
Tim than they did with me," Rachel said.
Most of all, though, everybody laughed.
"It was so much fun," she said. "I don't
regret it at all."
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fukkin 5team up to the same tricks
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