"Tebow time"

[Laurence Horn]

On Oct 9, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:

> A headline on this morning's Yahoo News trumpets, "It’s Tebow time for Biden and Ryan: How the VP debate could change the end game."
>
> I wonder what percentage of viewers/readers of that headline are expected to grasp the meaning of "Tebow time"?  (The article doesn't explain it.)
>
Probably a lot of viewers/readers interpret it to mean "time to pray" rather than "time to come up with the big play".

LH

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