Couple bids $100K to spend day with Tebow

[JonLP24]

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- There are a lot of fans who would give anything just to spend a couple of minutes with Tim Tebow.

One couple is willing to spend $100,000 to spend a day with the New York Jets quarterback.

That amount was the winning bid in a live auction during Friday night's gala event that kicked off the Tim Tebow Celebrity Golf Classic, which is a fundraising event for the Tim Tebow Foundation. The husband and wife, whom the foundation declined to identify, plan to share their day with Tebow with underprivileged children near their home in the Florida Keys.

"It was very humbling, and you don't necessarily feel worthy," Tebow said Saturday after the golf tournament's conclusion at TPC Sawgrass. "That day I feel like I've got to do a few extra things to be special, you know? I've got to try to be a little bit better."

http://espn.go.com/new-york/nfl/story/_/id/7814180/married-couple-bids-100000-spend-day-new-york-jets-tim-tebow

[joeybee12]

1. Fucking idiots...nt

[bluedigger]

2. That is fucking insane.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I can't find out much about Tebow's foundation, but it seems to me that the money could have done

more good if it had been donated directly to those organizations to help underprivileged children. This sounds more like an ego trip.

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Tim Tebow Foundation executive director Erik Dellenback said there was initial disbelief when the bid was placed, until he realized who had made the bid, as the couple had donated previously.

"They live in a part of town that has a lot of people in need and a lot of people with a lot of wealth. She felt that bringing Timmy to her town down there would maybe change the town," Dellenback said.

"She cleared it with Timmy and it sounds like she's going to have a little event where she brings some of the kids who are in need and some of the kids who are deserving."


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2012/04/14/florida-couple-bids-100k-to-spend-day-with-tim-tebow/#ixzz1s4cibnSR

[Auggie]

5. Info here:

The foundation supports four programs, all designed to help children. That's the good part.

The bad part: That help includes or is centered around faith. No one is against helping homeless, impoverished, or ill children, but leave out the proselytizing. That's bullshit.

LINK: http://www.timtebowfoundation.org/outreach#uncle_dicks

[madinmaryland]

4. Ok. What else can I say. nt

[n2doc]

6. Fools and their money are soon parted. n/t