Blessed Are the Peacemakers — Tim Tebow Calms a Scuffle

Last updated on: August 19, 2015 at 3:26 pm by Kate O'Hare

Blessed Are the Peacemakers — Tim Tebow Calms a Scuffle 2015-08-19T15:26:43-08:00 Kate O'Hare

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Just one more little stop along the strange and winding road of former and perhaps future NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, who came back from career oblivion to get a chance to join the Philadelphia Eagles for the 2015 season.

We’re at the beginning of the preseason, and teams are still at training camp — and sometimes they scrimmage with other teams. It’s summer; it’s hot; there’s fierce competition for roster slots — and tempers can boil over (it also helps that there aren’t any official penalties for scuffling — at least not yet).

As fans of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” have seen, the scrimmaging Houston Texans and Washington Redskins got into a few bench-clearing brawls, but they’re not alone.

If they’d had Tim Tebow, maybe it would have stopped after one fight.

As reported by CBS Sports, a melee started to break out between the Eagles and the Baltimore Ravens on Wednesday (Aug 19), but the Eagles’ fourth-string quarterback stepped in to calm the roiled waters.

As seen on Twitter:

4th stringer fight on the far field. But @TimTebow wades in and they part like the Red Sea.

— Michael Tanier (@MikeTanier) August 19, 2015

Tim Tebow broke up a fight during the Eagles and Ravens joint practice http://t.co/OkUSTvYPX4 pic.twitter.com/czmW4qZTXA — Sports Illustrated (@SInow) August 19, 2015

But, as the person who “broke” the story of @TimTebow “breaking up a fight,” I am available for interviews, autographs, trysts… — Michael Tanier (@MikeTanier) August 19, 2015

Tebow is breaking up a bit of a scrap in the endzone. Couldn’t tell who. #Eagles

— Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) August 19, 2015

Of course, someone had to chime in with the snark:

He then turned water into Gatorade & all were content RT @DRUDGE_REPORT: Tebow Breaks Up Fight At Eagles Practice… http://t.co/R3zszS77lC

— Peter Heise (@HeisePete) August 19, 2015

From the days as a Florida Gator when he used to inscribe it on his eyeblack, John 3:16 (and various permutations of the number 316) have been associated with Tebow. But today was Aug. 19, so what’s John 8:19?

They asked him, ‘Where is your Father then?’ Jesus answered: You do not know me, nor do you know my Father; if you did know me, you would know my Father as well.

Not bad.

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So, will Tebow be an Eagle when the regular season starts? Nobody but coach Chip Kelly knows for sure, but this is from today’s USA Today, in a story called “Tim Tebow is in danger of actually making the Eagles roster,” recounting the team’s last preseason game:

Timothy Richard Tebow scored the final touchdown for the Eagles Sunday. Tebow dove into the end zone on a seven-yard designed run from the pocket. He was relatively clean, completing 50% of his passes, and avoided turnovers. Fans at Lincoln Financial Field even strung together a “Tebow!” chant during his first series.

“I liked how Timmy threw it,” Eagles coach Chip Kelly said.

Yes. He called him Timmy.

Images: Screenshot/Getty Images (embeddable)

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