Originally published Monday, December 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM

Football Notebook | Tebow savors Heisman

Soon after Florida quarterback Tim Tebow became the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy, he left the Nokia Theatre in Times Square...

By Gannett News Service and The Associated Press

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Tim Tebow won the Heisman on Saturday.

NEW YORK — Soon after Florida quarterback Tim Tebow became the first sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy, he left the Nokia Theatre in Times Square on Saturday night and walked to the Hard Rock Cafe for a news conference.

Behind him were Gators coach Urban Meyer and others, pulled by the entourage undertow.

"I got whooshed behind Tim Tebow," Meyer recalled. "As it was pushing us, I said, 'This is kind of neat.' "

Did anyone notice Meyer?

"No. I was behind Tim."

Next year, every other outstanding player will enter the season behind Tebow, who will be favored to become the second player — matching Ohio State's Archie Griffin in 1974 and 1975 — to win two Heismans.

That feat seems possible, considering Tebow somehow has managed to exceed the expectations that greeted his arrival in Gainesville, Fla. This season, he became the first major-college player to run for at least 20 touchdowns and throw at least 20 TD passes in the same season.

Tebow was asked about the possibility of winning a second Heisman, or a third.

"I've already been asked that a bunch of times. I'm just going to get ready for Michigan this year," Tebow said, referring to the Gators' opponent in the Capital One Bowl on Jan. 1.

Meyer said talk about winning two or three Heismans won't be a distraction.

"I'm going to try to stop that. He will, too," Meyer said. "He's not going to be on the banquet circuit."

Note

• South Carolina's Jordin Lindsey, a defensive end who could not play this season for academic reasons, had his neck slashed during a weekend altercation near campus, police said.

Lindsey, 21, was cut early Saturday morning by a man wielding a sharp object, possibly a broken bottle, a police report said. Lindsey was fighting with one of two attackers when his neck was cut, the report said.

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