Tim Tebow, Mother Theresa, The New Tebow Eye Black Bible, and Circumcision as a hobby

As CBS says it doesn't run advocacy issue ads in the Super Bowl, then accepts one based on a a story that is at best dubious, the US Postal Service is tying itself up in knots over this planned 2010 stamp (Christopher Hitchens for the dissent here):



It turns out Tebow's already practicing for his post-pro career:

"The first time, it was nerve-racking. Hands were shaking a little bit. I mean, I'm cutting somebody. You can't do those kinds of things in the United States. But those people really needed the surgeries. We needed to help them."

Nothing juiced the mythology of Tim Tebow like the news that he spent his spring break after his Heisman-winning sophomore year circumcising orphans in the Philippines. Even with everything else that Tebow had done in his career, on and off the field, it seemed so... larger-than-life.

Maybe it was Tebow performing surgeries. Maybe it was Tebow doing something as dramatic as performing THAT kind of surgery. Maybe it was the Biblical allusion of the act. Maybe it was the video documentation that accompanied it. Maybe it was that it was the PERFECT fodder for sports bloggers.

And of course there's people out there compiling the The New Tebow Eye Black Bible.