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Mehta: Tim Tebow's time as NFL QB ended with Jets

If you close your eyes in the end zone of the Jets’ field house, you can picture that surreal March morning three years ago when the backup quarterback was treated like a rock star.

Tebowmania was running wild, but the man who laced every sentence with some variation of “excited” during a 33-minute introductory press conference was about to commit career suicide.

Tim Tebow’s NFL life died in Florham Park even though he refused to acknowledge it. His pursuit of a lifelong dream that has taken a winding path from Foxborough to the broadcast booth to Philadelphia should be over by Saturday at 4 p.