"Tebow time"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Maybe it *is* time for them to pray.

JL

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Oct 9, 2012, at 10:37 AM, Charles C Doyle wrote:
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> > 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."
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> > 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.)
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> Probably a lot of viewers/readers interpret it to mean "time to pray"
> rather than "time to come up with the big play".
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> LH
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