by lessismore

He shows up out of nowhere on YouTube in late April. Tom Tebow. It’s really his name. No relation to Tim. The videos feature a young man tossing footballs against a backdrop of bleak, Iowa farmland. He never misses a target. He throws a few for ninety yards. He throws through tires. He hits moving targets. He hits them again, blindfolded. He mows things down from incomprehensible distances. He does it again in rapid succession: One, Two, Three, Four, Five. One take. He hits a long range shot standing still. Then he sits down and does it again. He throws with his right hand and then makes the exact same throw, a second later, with his left.