Sports: The Vow

After a humbling loss at home to Ole Miss, UF quarterback Tim Tebow was teary-eyed and shell-shocked:

"To the fans and everybody of Gator Nation, I'm sorry. Extremely sorry. We wanted an undefeated season. That was my goal, something Florida has never done here. 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. You will never see another player push his team as hard as I will push everybody the rest of the season. You will never see a team play harder than we will the rest of the season. God bless."

From a lot of other players, such words would ring hollow, or worse, would sound like bravado. But as Saturday's 51-21 rout of LSU proved, Tim Tebow is not like a lot of other players:



The Gators indeed played harder than they have all season, dominating the LSU offense early and scoring with regularity through most of the game. You simply cannot win a football game without controlling the line of scrimmage; the Gator defensive line finally looked like a cohesive unit, featuring the same sort of bend-don't-break mentality that carried UF to a national championship in 2006.

Whether the momentum remains through the grind of the SEC schedule is anyone's guess, but for now, the Vow appears poised to live on in the memories of Gator fans.