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Tebow Was Fined by Teammates for Billboard Telling Coach to Let Him Play

In the final week of the NFL regular season one of the most interesting games will play out in Denver as Tim Tebow, the unorthodox Quarterback who has been one of the biggest storylines of the season, will play against his predecessor Kyle Orton.

Tebow came to the Broncos one year ago following one of the most decorated careers in college football history. As a rookie, Tebow sat out most of last season despite the demands of many fans. After just one win and four losses this season, the rumbling of Denver fans calling on Coach John Foxx to bench Orton in favor of Tebow grew. On October 5, a billboard went up at an intersection in Denver representing the growing Quarterback controversy:

Tebow Was Fined for Billboard

The sign was put up by three Muslim-American brothers and Broncos fans, who have no have no qualms with Tebow’s well-known devout Christian faith.

“It gives him encouragement, so it’s good,” one brother told the Washington Times. Another: “That’s where he gets his strength, so he should keep it up because it’s good for Denver.”

Since taking over for Orton on October 9, Tebow has miraculously led the Broncos into playoff contention. Orton was released and picked up by the Kansas City Chiefs. This Sunday Orton comes to Denver as the starting Quarterback with the Chiefs, and has the opportunity to derail the Broncos’ playoff hopes.

Coming into the huge game Sunday, the NFL network reports on an awkward outstanding debt that the two QBs may need to settle:

“Like many places around the NFL, the Broncos’ QBs have an informal system in place that allows them to fine each other for different infractions, whether funny or serious. Late for a meeting? That’s a fine. Say something dumb? That’s a fine, too. Each fine is tallied on a board — and everyone pays up at the season’s end.

Four days after a billboard in Denver on 58th Avenue one block east of Interstate 25 publicly called for coach John Fox to bench Orton in favor of No. 15, the quarterbacks decided to begin fining Tebow every day that it remained up.”

Up to the announcement that he would be the starter, Tebow had been fined daily for not publicly admonishing a sign representing calls from the fans to let him play.

While the debt has gone unpaid, Orton has the chance Sunday to settle the score.

Comments (55)

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  • PATRIOT802
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 1:45pm

    Thats waht NFL Kangaroo courts are for……..he should have said something, Instead the Team fined him. Good, Go Raiders

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    • AndySchmandy
      Posted on January 1, 2012 at 3:36pm

      Go Raiders indeed sir.

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    • Ded-Bred
      Posted on January 1, 2012 at 6:07pm

      While Tim Tebow played for the slimiest dirtbag to ever coach, (with the exception of Steve Spurrier), there was another QB who‘s stats were nearly exactly like Tebow’s. I’m referring, of course, to the talents of John Parker Wilson, University of Alabama’s QB who carried us to National Championship #13.
      Now, I have tremendous respect for Tebow, just as I have a lack of respect for Urban Meyer..

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    • Rockinphil
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 6:19am

      ‎”The massive Raider Nation is beyond doubt the sleaziest and rudest and most sinister mob of thugs and wackos ever assembled.” —- Hunter S. Thompson

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  • Calcman
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 1:42pm

    The headlines lead one to believe it was Tebow who built the board and painted the words on it, when in fact he had nothing to do with it. I think he has more important things to do than monitor highway billboards. I have a client company that gets paid about $1 million a year to do that. Tim is nothing but good in everything he does. Those who criticize him, including misleading article headlines, know nothing about sports, manhood or human nature. His participation in this was equal to a driver having a tail light out, with a media proclaiming “driver attempts to kill other drivers.”

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 1:28pm

    Why does his religion cause SUCH a controversy and IF he is a Christian, why are these MUSLIM brothers PUSHING the issue by paying for a billboard? Do they hope it will turn people AGAINST Tebow? WHY the FINES for the guy who had NOTHING to do with it, anyway? There MUST be a CAIR lawsuit to come somewhere in this mix?!?! The TEBOW stories will never end because he will not back away from his beliefs! GOOD FOR HIM and he should not pay ONE Penny of those “fines.” That’s just crazy. I hope his team wins their way into the SUPER BOWL. If not, Tebow has done a lot for Denver, all POSITIVE!

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  • brian8793
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:53pm

    That’s awesome that those guys who put the sign up were Muslim-American.

    Don’t you stinkin hillbillies just hate that? You HATE THEM MUSLIMS, doncha? LMBO!

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    • Cesium
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 2:35am

      even better, not one of them replied to you on this

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  • watashbuddyfriend
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:31pm

    Run that by me, again “Tebow Was Fined by Teammates.”

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  • your sensei
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:27pm

    T4bow is a fraud and a home wrecker. The “other” man. Whatever happened to family values in this country?

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    • Zipit
      Posted on January 1, 2012 at 1:37pm

      The definition of “Moron” in the dictionary, includes your picture.

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    • Knight Templar
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 5:50pm

      sensei—what’s it like to always be the twit in the room?

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  • waggie
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 12:27pm

    Oh please! Tebow is a hero for not backing down from his beliefs! Go buddy!

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  • RRFlyer
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 11:12am

    Tebow did respond to the billboard. (Tebow said on September 15 that he’d rather the money spent on the billboard be donated to his charitable foundation. )

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  • Choctaw25
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 8:00am

    Where are the OWS or ONFL when you really need them ????????

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 4:56am

    I hope they show that game in my area on sunday…. Its been an interesting ride to watch…

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  • Blazeanswerman
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 2:17am

    Headline is wrong. Only former losers want to fine TT.

    Or how about the sour whiny loser Orton? The teammates of Tebow only need to celebrate a winner in the quarterback role. Sounds like Orton needs a hug. Poor baby!

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  • wwwjr
    Posted on January 1, 2012 at 1:12am

    People settle down. This is the type of things teams do to build camaraderie. Take a hand full of chill pills.

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  • Phoneguy
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:41pm

    Why would he admonish it, he didn’t put it up, and wants to play and he wins, teammates are a bit childish it looks like or jealous? Weird I think!

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  • Eliasim
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:22pm

    Don’t worry Tebow, they think making the Occupiers and Tea Party will supersede the parting of the red sea, but it will not.

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:11pm

    Ya know what? This is a GAME. It’s called FOOTBALL. Great for Tebow and his religious beliefs. BUT THIS IS JUST A GAME OF FOOTBALL. There are more important things to be concerned about than one man’s religious beliefs.

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    • FantaGirl
      Posted on January 1, 2012 at 7:11am

      @AmericanStrega

      It‘s not just about one man’s religious beliefs. There is a war on religion going on in our country by progressives and atheists (not all atheists), and the fact that there is a man in football is who publicly praying, or “Tebowing”, as the left call it, is driving them crazy. If you let the enemy take one stone out of the castle, they start taking the rest. Thank you for reading, God Bless and Happy New Year.
      God Bless Tim Tebow!

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 1:41am

      The sports media has no problem with football players getting to talk about getting to sleep around or acting like jerks towards their fans or glorifying themselves but Tim Tebow gets trashed for talking about his faith and told to keep his faith to himself.

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  • Daveed
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:03pm

    To the Tebow haters. When we pray, we ask the Lord to help us be the best we can be, to be an example before others let our actions glorify God.

    He is thanking his Creator. This big hulabaloo trying to make something out of it other than a man thanking God is just ignorance.

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    • concealled9mms
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:49pm

      you are right , and i must ad if he was a black quarterback that got off killing dogs he would be put on a pedestal

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    • JAHodel
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 11:31pm

      The funny thing is the backup QB, Brady Quinn, is a hardcore Christian. So I guess God is just favoring Tebow over Quinn? Let’s just have some fun and watch some football!!! Oh, and Let Quinn get his $$.

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  • sideswiped
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:36pm

    what is a muslim american?

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    • Eliasim
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:25pm

      Another wall in the midst of a group, fed by a fountain of the deep that will be crushed.

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    • NDPINDNT
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:38pm

      Ah, I think they met a American Muslim? I guess then I could be a caucasian American now. Or American caucasian. I am so confused. Guess we are all just “Americans”.

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    • dean_buvia
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 10:55pm

      Any muslim that’s not doing crazy/evil stuff in the name of their religion is to be praised, even it’s just pimping a QB.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on January 1, 2012 at 7:25am

      I guess that makes me an Irish, German, British, French, Cherokee, Catholic, Methodist American.

      So, I’m a mut. I guess at least you can’t call me inbred, but I would prefer you to call me American plain and simple.

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    • TheBMT
      Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:34am

      well the “muslim” addition is the same as “african”, “native”, “irish”, etc, etc. All ways society can collectively assign a status to a people to make them less then just AMERICAN. Stop buying into the BS with these names.

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  • drphil69
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:35pm

    “…— and everyone pays up at the season’s end.”

    “While the debt has gone unpaid, Orton has the chance Sunday to settle the score.”

    uhhh….

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:29pm

    And why should he? He didn’t persuade the fans to tell the coach to play him. And obviously, John Fox had every reason to replace Orton to try somebody different…

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:29pm

    This stuff goes on all the time in pro sports. It’s for fun, it’s harmless, and oh yeah, it hardly ranks as a news story.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:08pm

    Lineman have been fined by other linemen for allowing sacks. I remember Denvers O Line would fine each other if any of them talked to the press. This is no different and the money usually goes to charity or to help pay for a team party at the end of the year.

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    • mils
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:18pm

      it sounds silly to single tebow out for what others are doing.
      ..denver’s not going to the superbowl anyway, so they’re ticked…

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:35pm

      I am sure there were plenty of others that were “Singled” out, this is just being reported. The fine was probably like $100 a day. Which would be about $2,000 for the length of the billboard, I believe it was only up for about 3 weeks. Harmless fun between teammates.

      They usually have a “Kangaroo” court that will decide fines if a player want’s to dispute.

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  • Maxim Crux
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:49pm

    Sounds like the NFL is going commie. Wah wah. Time to switch it off and institute our own fine

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 9:01pm

      It’s been commie for awhile. A couple years back when the Lions went 0-16, fans would show up to the games with signs saying “Fire Millen” (Lions then gen manager Matt Millen) and be kicked out for it!

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:41pm

    This should be a very entertaining weekend for all of you football fans….

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  • CatB
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:37pm

    Okay .. I don’t really follow football .. but I know Tim Tebow .. and why should he be fined for someone else’s free speech? I don’t get it .. he is supposed to denounce their free speech .. when he doesn’t believe that they are wrong… doesn’t he have free speech ( or the right NOT TO speak?) .. seems like a lot of people getting upset because he isn’t afraid to be himself.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:46pm

      That is the crux of the current regards for PC insanity – Tebow is being considered the cause and bearer of blame for the actions of others; for some reason there appears to be no understanding by the quarterbacks that the fans alone decide what the fans will do, not Tebow.

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    • Stopit
      Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:56pm

      Nah…just a light-hearted informal “fine” amoung the QB’s at Denver. Tebow hasn’t paid anything, and probably won’t…sounds like its a morale and competition booster.

      @ MrSavage…It‘s nice to be able to put all the heavy stuff aside for awhile and enjoy something that really doesn’t matter. You ought to try it.

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  • mrsalvage2
    Posted on December 31, 2011 at 8:35pm

    Silly. Frivolous.

    Martial Law has been declared, adn this is a headline.

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