Jeremy Fowler of the Orlando Sentinel just posted the latest info on Tim Tebow’s head injury last night:
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Craig Howard, Tebow’s former high school coach at Jacksonville Nease and close family friend, told the Sentinel he got word from Tebow’s parents that the concussion is “mild” or “normal.”
Howard noted that Tebow would have stayed at the hotel longer if there was serious brain swelling or bleeding, common results of severe concussions.
Tebow is indeed out of the hospital and taking a private jet back to Gainesville today. In Fowler’s post, “hotel” should be “hospital.”
More details are also coming out about Tebow’s experience immediately after the hit.
Late Saturday evening, Tebow was scheduled to enter the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit but did not because of the unit’s capacity, according to a hospital source. Tebow was moved to one of more than 400 private rooms in the eight-floor hospital, according to the source.
Gators fans can breathe easier after about 12 hours between the hit and his release. Gators players said Tebow was coherent from the sidelines before being taken to an ambulance while vomiting into a bag.
I’m not so sure I would characterize any concussion as “normal”, but I suppose the news is as good as one could’ve expected based on the nature of Saturday’s violent collision. (Not sure what a “severe” concussion would entail. Detachment of some sort?)
Now the next thing will be an update on Tebow’s “respiratory illness“, which is better known as Swine Flu.
2:06 pm on September 27th, 2009
Heard the bag and its contents will be auctioned off - the money will go to fund Tebow’s trip back to SE Asia this summer to ‘clip’ some young boys…
6:44 pm on September 27th, 2009
Apparently the swine flu microbes were also shaken up.
9:40 am on September 28th, 2009
every time a Tebow hater brings up circumcision, God blows up a trailer park
11:41 am on September 28th, 2009
“you spend five or twenty minutes……..never mind!
10:55 am on September 29th, 2009
Tebow to start next saturday
5:21 pm on September 29th, 2009
Tebow is not OK. This is all BS. Latest word is he is being fed through a tube inserted in his stomach. undergone surgery on his trachea, it seems. This was not a simple thing. He will not be back for a long, long time.
12:06 am on September 30th, 2009
LOL rs ur dumb. That’s stafon Johnson from USC. He dropped his weight on his neck while bench pressing
2:14 pm on September 30th, 2009
Why exactly was he in the 31-7 game anyway? Karma for Meyer?
12:18 pm on October 1st, 2009
He was in still in the game because until that hit, Tim Tebow had never really experienced what it might be like to get sacked in the NFL. The Universe has a unique way of preparing all of us who try our best.
2:30 pm on October 5th, 2009
Anyone who says tebow is still not better is an idiot. Tebow was fine the next day. I live in Lexington Kentucky and saw him and his parents eating lunch the next day. He appeared fine. He had an appetite and was eating his meal and acting like the normal superstar that he is! All those college football fans, beware of the gators! Beware of Tim Tebow! He’ll be there on saturday to take on LSU and will destroy their defense once again! Timmy, your my hero!
3:35 pm on October 6th, 2009
Tim Tebow is a awesome man of god! Thanks Brooks for the update! I found some news on his injury and wrote a article about it here:
http://opinionatedsportz.com/?p=153