Florida Gators force Fort Myers Miracle to alter promotion
By Jeremy Fowler
The Orlando Sentinel
Initials aren�t nearly as fun.
Just ask the Fort Myers Miracle baseball club, which changed Wednesday night�s �What Would Tim Tebow Do?� promotion to �What Would T.T. Do?� because of the big, bad University of Florida.
Florida sent the Minnesota Twins� minor-league affiliate a cease-and-desist letter for using the name of a student-athlete.
The Miracle still gave out �Promise� rings at the gate and scheduled a man named Timothy Tebow to walk on water on top of the dugout, according to a Miracle operator. Media-relations director Gary Sharp was unavailable Wednesday night while serving as the public-address announcer.
�The University of Florida knows who we are now,� Sharp told the Naples News. �Jeremy Foley and Urban Meyer were copied on the e-mail.�
Florida recently sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Web site Teebows.com, which used Tebow�s name and the school�s trademark to promote women�s underwear.
Tebow doesn�t mind others using his name for a good cause.
�If it brings a negative connotation, obviously I don�t like it too much,� Tebow said. �So far, different things that have been sold have been OK.�