"catfishing"--early WOTY candidate?

[Alice Faber]

On 1/17/13 1:00 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
> At 1/17/2013 12:48 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>> On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>>
>> > Another WOTY?  "Te'o-ing", to succeed "Tebowing"?
>>
>> I like it, but why "both LDS phenomena"?  Tebow isn't a Mormon
>> AFAIK, but a garden-variety evangelical Christian.  Possibly fundy,
>> I don't know, but not LDS.
>
> Apparently my error.  (Was I confusing Tebow with some other recent
> pro quarterback, who came from a Utah college?)  We'll have to find
> some other connection between the two gentlemen.
>
Well Steve Young was from BYU, and, more recently, Alex Smith is from
the University of Utah. But I don't remember any feature stories about
either referring to religious faith.

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