Tim Tebow's iconic 'The Promise' was made 10 years ago
Thursday marked a special day in Florida Gators football history – the 10-year anniversary of “The Promise.”
After Florida fell 30-31 at home to Ole Miss, Tebow made an iconic pledge at the postgame press conference.
I just want to say one thing.
To the fans and everybody in Gator Nation, I’m sorry, extremely sorry.
I promise you one thing, a lot of good will come out of this.
You will never see any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of the season, and you will never see someone push the rest of the team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of the season, and you will never see a team play harder than we will the rest of the season.
God bless.
Players of all sports regularly pledge to work harder after a loss. Tebow’s “Promise,” however, is remember for the fact he made it at the time Florida was 3-1 with a long season ahead. The Gators finished 13-1. A switch was seemingly flipped. UF not only won, but Urban Meyer’s squad started dominating SEC foes winning 38-7 over Arkansas, 51-21 over then-No. 4 LSU, 63-5 over Kentucky, 49-10 over then-No. 8 Georgia, 42-14 over Vanderbilt and 56-6 over South Carolina.
After “The Promise,” the Gators were simply unbeatable. Nick Saban’s Alabama dynasty had to wait a year as Tebow willed Florida to a 31-20 win in the SEC Championship Game over the Crimson Tide, who came into the game undefeated. Tebow’s “Promise” culminated in a 24-14 win over Oklahoma for the BCS title.
Both Tebow and the Gators marked the 10-year anniversary on Twitter.
Crazy it’s already been 10 years! That’ll make you feel old! #gogators #gatornation pic.twitter.com/IZb9WXah8E
— Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) September 27, 2018
10 years ago today, a promise was made. Later that season, the promise was kept.#GoGators pic.twitter.com/NtPn0xvjlv
— Florida Gators (@FloridaGators) September 28, 2018
10 years ago today… #ThePromise was made and the rest is history.
Story via @AschoffESPN: https://t.co/pmzQc4uM7R #GoGators pic.twitter.com/o3cHd6Pqee
— Gators Football (@GatorsFB) September 28, 2018
Tebow was an awesome player and he seems like an even greater person but…WHO CARES. This “promise” crap gets way too much publicity…
Obviously you do because to you clicked on the article…
I clicked on the article to post this comment so I could annoy those like you. Oh and, you’re dumb…
You know your team isn’t doing as bad as it could be if your articles don’t continually involve invoking the glory days from random stuff no one remembers, like that series SDS did on the 98 Vols NC team.
It was the ten year anniversary of the greatest speech in Gator football history. It has nothing to do with how the team is doing at this moment. Maybe if your players would have as much fight as this guy you would have won a championship since 1980
Don’t let the “no title since 1980” distract you from the fact that Florida lost to Kentucky for the first time since…hell I don’t even remember how long ago…
They’d probably write articles invoking the glory days of UGA too if they actually had anything worth talking about or it happened more recently than 38 years ago. Gotta love Dawg fans, one good season in which nothing was really accomplished other than choking a title away, and suddenly they act like they’ve won 15 titles in a row. Hilarious!
Look tebow was a great player. Every team does and should remember their own “glory days”….. and obviously tebow wasnt lying lol. Bu with only minor disrespect, this is pretty corny. I didnt know there was a plaque lol. They should have a bust next to it with him crying. See you soon gators
Lot of salt at this table. Will never understand how he didn’t win a second heisman, he had the most 1st place votes to boot.