Tebowing. During the final play of the Denver Broncos game vs the Miami Dolphins last Sunday, quarterback Tim Tebow, instead of watching the winning field goal go through the uprights was on one knee praying. Somehow, the act of getting down on one knee and praying when nobody else around is doing it was dubbed “Tebowing” after that moment. Media, fans and followers have taken the ‘Tebowing’ craze to a new level.
Tebowing.com was registered on Tuesday, October 25th and a blog site was immediately put up where visitors can upload pics of themselves or friends ‘Tebowing’. The site now, just a few days old has received hundreds of thousands of unique visitors in the first week and is already ranked in the top 74,000 sites globally and top 4,500 in the U.S.
The registrant of tebowing.com, Jared Kleinstein did an entertaining interview with the Wall Street Journal the other day talking a bit about the ‘Tebowing’ craze. This site currently monetized by selling Tebowing t-shirts, hoodies, knit caps, baseball caps and even baby bibs.
It’s unbelievable how quickly this has blown up. It’s such a simple design on the site and it seems this guy is going to be sitting on a nice pile of change very soon. All the hype was too big of a distraction for the Broncos to handle though. The media is crazy, it was his 5th start and they’re already saying that he’s clearly not the answer. Give the man a chance.