Introducing 'Tebowing' - Fad Inspired By QB Tim Tebow

(The Wall Street Journal) - It was only a matter of time before the sports world had its planking equivalent: Tebowing.

Tebowing, according to the new Tumblr blog Tebowing.com , is "to get down on a knee and start praying, even if everyone else around you is doing something completely different."

Its namesake is Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow, who inadvertently invented Tebowing.

In the last week alone, people have been photographed Tebowing in the US Capitol, Korea and an operating room; near a beer-pong table, the Chrysler Building and a toilet; and mimicking the "Abbey Road" cover.

Toddlers have Tebowed. Texas Rangers third baseman Adrian Beltre accidentally Tebowed. The act of Tebowing has even been carved into a pumpkin.

Jared Kleinstein, a Denver native who works for a real estate website, popularized the concept of Tebowing this week.

He was watching the Broncos game Sunday with five high-school friends at Sidebar, a New York City gathering spot for Broncos and Florida Gators fans, when Tebow led an astonishing fourth-quarter comeback.

"Everybody was jumping up and down, and we noticed Tebow Tebowing," he said.

When he left the bar, Kleinstein convinced his friends to photograph themselves posing like Tebow, and he posted the picture on Facebook.

On Monday night, he started a Tumblr devoted to Tebowing. The next morning, he bought the domain name Tebowing.com . By Thursday afternoon, he said, traffic had spiked to over 120,000 views.

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