It’s official – Tim Tebow will grace the cover of EA’s NCAA Football 11 video game. Tim was in Orlando at the EA Sports’ studio for the cover photo shoot and ESPN was there to capture it all. You can check out a photo of Tim in action at their site. As you can imagine, Tebow is extremely excited to be on the cover of a video game… I mean who wouldn’t be?! “I’ve been playing this game since I was 6,” Tebow told ESPN during his photo shoot. “But they made so many big changes this year, I needed to find out the secrets before it came out.”
The ESPN article also gets into a one on one interview. Here are a few excerpts:
Jon Robinson: Are you a big gamer?
Tim Tebow: I’ve been playing the college football game since I was about 6 years old, and I still really enjoy playing the game. I don’t play too much during the season, but in the offseason and summer, I definitely like to sit down and enjoy the games.
Jon Robinson: What was your reaction the first time you saw yourself in a video game?
Tim Tebow: First thing I thought was, I’m faster than that. [laughs] I wanted to call some people and get my speed rating bumped up a little bit. But it’s fun to be a part of the game. It’s something that exciting, and it’s a little surreal to be honest, because you’re playing as yourself in a game that you grew up playing. As a kid, I always looked up to these guys who were on the cover of the college game, so it’s a really fun experience for me just to be involved.
Jon Robinson: So what’s the best thing about being a video game quarterback as opposed to playing the position in real life?
Tim Tebow: You can always find those plays in every game that work for a touchdown or a big gain all the time and no matter what the defense tries, they can’t stop you. Only downfall is sometimes you might cramp up a little on the thumbs.
Fans have got to play as Tebow over the past 4 years – he is one heck of an athlete in that game. Now, they won’t be able to play as him when they pick the Gators but it will still be cool seeing Tim on the cover of the game every time you go to play.
So will you be picking up NCAA Football 11 this summer?
This is awesome….
SleepBarn
This is so awesome!!! I just watched a video of Tim at the photo shoot and playing the game. He is a truly remarkable person!!!
hurray, enjoy a Jared Zabransky like NFL career ya bum!
considering zabransky’s college record, the two are hardly a comparison, if tebow had a potato he wouldn’t throw it but say grace and feed 300 people instead.. bum
wow is all i can say trains…
hurray, enjoy a Jared Zabransky like NFL career ya bum!
1. A tramp; a vagrant.
2. A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.
3. An incompetent, insignificant, or obnoxious person: The batter called the pitcher a bum.
4. One who is devoted to a particular activity or milieu
by definition the only part that pertains to tim is his devotion to a particular activity; faith. tim is a hard worker with goals, abilities, ambitions.