Aaron Hernandez is sitting in jail charged with first degree murder and the connection between him and quarterback Tim Tebow from his time with the Florida Gators was profiled for Sports Illustrated on SI.com in the "The Book of Tebow" and it details an incident that happened with the two at a bar when they first arrived there and how Urban Meyer helped them out.
Hernandez is still locked up in jail while he is awaiting charges on first degree murder of former semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd and this incident was one that was reported on a bit after Hernandez was first arrested. The SI article from Thomas Lake details the incident through the lens of wondering why Tim Tebow was with Hernandez in the first place at a bar and also how he helped mediate the situation when it escalated. The profile on Tebow is looking at the quarterback through his whole career in college and the NFL and part of the article details his time at Florida, which of course overlapped with Hernandez for some years.
The article writes how Tebow came in after already playing with the team for a year and that gave him an advantage, scoring 55 touchdowns and cleaning it up with awards, including the Heisman Trophy, Davey O'Brien and the AP Player of the Year, making a competition all but moot anyway. Former players with the team described Tebow as "wanting it" more and that is why he won out and clearly that worked out for Florida even if the NFL hasn't for Tebow, as he won championships and set records while in college.
Tebow is a polarizing figure in sports and part of that is due to his religious beliefs and that came into play in a big way earlier this year, as the quarterback was supposed to appear at the First Baptist Church in Dallas and after calls of the church being bigoted and anti-other religions, Tebow stepped away. The pastor called him out after that and said that he wanted to be a "loving" person and that it was a mistake to schedule an appearance there. Tebow of course played for the Patriots after getting cut with the Jets, but that never really was going to work out. The article is a great read for sports fans and people that like Tebow and who really knows what the future holds for the man anyway, he could make it happen someday.
