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Afternoon Kickoff 8/27

Minor League Baseball teams are known for their crazy promotions.

Well, the Fort Myers Miracle -- Single A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins -- came up with a very unique idea before the University of Florida put a stop to it.

Wednesday night was supposed to be "What Would Tim Tebow Do?" night at the ballpark before Florida sent a cease and desist note Wednesday morning for using Tebow's name as a promotion.

From David Dorsey of the Fort Myers News-Press:

Inserting the name of Tebow, a devout Christian, in the place of Jesus -- from the popular saying What Would Jesus Do? -- wasn't meant to be malicious, said Gary Sharp, the Miracle's director of promotions.

"We're not mocking Tim Tebow," said Sharp, who came up with the idea in January after the Gators won their second national title in three years. "This is to show how people put others on a pedestal. He's a 22-year-old kid who happens to be a great college football player."

Among the ideas for the promotion, the Miracle initially planned for local resident Timmy Tebo to throw out a ceremonial pregame football throw -- although he didn't show up.

Other ideas, from Naples News:

Festivities included free promise rings to every fan at the game, a ceremonial "jump-pass" to start the game and mock character named "T.T." attempted to walk on water after the top of the second inning.

Other activities that were bounced around when the team was planning the event included a mock circumcision, which would have been meant to play off of Tebow's missionary work in the Philippines.

It wasn't included on Wednesday for obvious reasons.

I think these ideas speak for themselves.

And when Florida put a stop to things, the promotion wasn't completely tossed out the window. Instead, it simply became "What Would T.T. Do?" night.

I look forward to another team trying to top the Miracle now. I can't even begin to think what they'd need to do.

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Quick Hits:
-It looks like Aaron Corp's leg injury may have cost him the USC starting quarterback job. The No. 1 quarterback coming out of the spring, Corp lost his job to true freshman Matt Barkley, as Barkley will get the call Sept. 5 against San Jose State.

-Tennessee finally received some good news this offseason, as highly touted true freshman tailback Bryce Brown has been ruled eligible to play by the NCAA.

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Video of the Day:
Not college football related today, but with the Minor League Baseball theme, here's a link to one of the most famous manager meltdowns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZUKHtW7vg

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Matt Fortuna is a junior majoring in journalism and a football reporter for the Collegian. He has previously covered the men's tennis, soccer and basketball teams. A traditionalist, he would like nothing more than to see Joe Paterno throw it back to his Brooklyn days and install the single-wing offense this season.

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Nate Mink is a junior majoring in journalism and a football reporter for the Daily Collegian and a 5-foot-10 sesquipedalian from Allentown who has tried to grow facial hair for 20 years. Sadly, he has been unsuccessful thus far. He is anxious to get a new driver's license in September and hopes the bartenders at Zanzibar in Ann Arbor believe he's 21.

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Wayne Staats is a senior majoring in journalism and history and is a football reporter for the Collegian. He previously covered the baseball and women's basketball teams. He never made it far playing competitive football, unless Nerf football in grade school counts.

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Matt Brown is a senior majoring in journalism and is the Collegian's football editor. He previously covered the Penn State men's basketball, baseball and women's soccer teams. While a fan of most sports, he thinks the 14 Saturdays of the college football season are the best 14 days of the year and all 34 bowl games are worth watching.

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