New York Daily News

Teb-OW! Tim nails fan right in jewels

- BY SETH WALDER R M

TIM TEBOW’S well-documented accuracy problems have extended to baseball too — and fans better watch out.

Tebow’s Columbia Fireflies were warming up ahead of their game against the Lakewood BlueClaws in New Jersey Tuesday when the former quarterbac­k sailed an overthrow — perhaps reminiscen­t of his passes in training camp with the Jets in 2012 — through a railing and into the stands, hitting an unsuspecti­ng Doug Brustman...right where it hurts.

“Direct hit. It couldn’t have been a more perfect throw,” Brustman said over the phone Wednesday. “To be honest I’ll tell you, I’m still sore.”

Brustman, a 45-year-old from Manchester, N.J., attended the game with his wife and 13-yearold daughter.

“I was talking to my daughter who was sitting next to me, and a guy behind me (said) ‘Watch out!’ As I hear watch out, I get hit directly in the n--s,” Brustman said.

When he asked the people around him, he soon found out the culprit was Tebow. The former Gator did come over after to sign the ball, as well as two of Tebow’s books that Brustman’s daughter — a Tebow fan — had brought to the game.

Brustman, however, went to the University of Tennessee and therefore rooted against the former Gator quarterbac­k when Tebow was in college. And Brustman was wearing a Volunteers hat, too.

“I said I think you did it on purpose, I think you saw my hat and beaned me,” Brustman said. “He looked at my hat, laughed, gave me a fist pump and walked away.”

A few years after Tebow left Florida, he was playing for one of Brustman’s teams: the Jets. Well, he sort of played anyway. Though Gang Green used Tebow as a punt protector, he hardly threw any passes at all during that 2012 season.

“He’s just inaccurate,” Brustman said. “So my brother and I were joking... My brother goes, ‘Yeah, I know he was inaccurate with a football.’ I said, ‘Yeah, but I couldn’t believe he was inaccurate with a baseball too.’”

Brustman said his friends have made fun of him for the ordeal.

“It’s really funny and I’m having fun with it,” he said. “But I’m sore. It hurts.”

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