{"id":873655,"date":"2026-04-24T16:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873655\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T16:48:16","slug":"former-florida-gators-qb-tim-tebow-announces-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/873655\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow announces father&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Many will say sorry for your loss but the truth is he\u2019s not lost, we know exactly where he is. He\u2019s home. Forever!&#8221; Tebow said on X.<\/p>\n<p>JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The father of Jacksonville native and former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow has died, according to the former QB.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heaven ushered in a hero of the faith last night as my Dad was welcomed home!&#8221; Tebow said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimTebow\/status\/2047671123039379500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">X post<\/a> Friday about his father Bob.<\/p>\n<p>Tebow continued: &#8220;Many will say sorry for your loss but the truth is he\u2019s not lost, we know exactly where he is. He\u2019s home. Forever! I asked him last week what he looked forward to most about Heaven, and he simply said, &#8220;Jesus.&#8221; He couldn&#8217;t wait to see Jesus face to face. Praise God that his wait is over. Death has been swallowed up in victory. He\u2019s healed and whole now. So we don\u2019t mourn as those with no hope. See you soon Dad!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cause of death of Tebow&#8217;s father is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Many will say sorry for your loss but the truth is he\u2019s not lost, we know exactly where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":873656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-873655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116460709697606639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/873656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}