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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Tim Tebow Is #1 Jersey Boy


Tim Tebow's Broncos jersey leads NFL sales for April
USA Today

NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Tebow (FSY) already leads the NFL in one category: jersey sales.
His Denver Broncos No. 15 was by far the most popular on the NFL's website for April. His celebrity clearly trumps the debate over whether he'll ever make it as an NFL quarterback after winning the Heisman Trophy and two national championships at Florida.

Tebow is, at best, third on Denver's depth chart at QB. But the 25th pick of the first round still had the best-selling rookie jersey since the NFL started keeping track in 2006. Thirty percent of the orders came from Florida.

The Broncos were tops in the league in merchandise sales on NFLShop.com in April after ranking 10th for the year ending March 31 — and without any other Denver player's jersey in the top 25.

The draft's top pick, the St. Louis Rams' Sam Bradford, was at No. 9, behind not just Tebow but the second selection, defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh. The new Detroit Lion, who ranked eighth, is the only lineman in the top 25.

April's No. 2 seller was an old quarterback on a new team: the Redskins jersey of Donovan McNabb. McNabb's Eagles jersey wasn't even in the top 25 for the year ending March 31, trailing even teammate Michael Vick.

The rest of the top 10 for April includes many of the usual suspects: Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Tony Romo and Troy Polamalu.

Well Flattop Jesus has done it again. After parting every body of water on his way from the Sunshine State to, as Mitch Martin would call it, the Sunshine State Tebow has now raise his flock of Gator/Christian mutants to make his jersey the top seller in the NFL. I think I'm even starting to fall for this guy all over again. But he's going to have to win some games to keep this momentum going. AC Green and Britney Spears were pretty popular virgins too at one point but they fell on hard times or moved to worse teams their fans abandoned that. Keep that in mind Second Coming.

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