{"id":647199,"date":"2026-05-16T18:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T18:45:11","slug":"florida-legend-tim-tebow-sends-message-to-morgan-wallen-after-the-country-singer-refused-to-do-the-gator-chomp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647199\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida legend Tim Tebow sends message to Morgan Wallen after the country singer refused to do the Gator chomp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country music superstar and Tennessee Volunteers superfan Morgan Wallen played a concert in Gainesville on Friday night, and he walked to the stage with Florida Gators legend Tim Tebow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Country music star and Tennessee Vols superfan Morgan Wallen went viral on Friday night after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/morgan-wallens-tennessee-vols-fandom-113441280.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:refusing to do the Gator chomp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;refusing to do the Gator chomp&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">refusing to do the Gator chomp<\/a> during a concert in Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wallen, who grew up in East Tennessee, walked to the stage with Florida Gators legend Tim Tebow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Before getting to the stage, Tebow broke out the famous Gator chomp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wallen passed on doing the Gator chomp with Tebow.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Tebow sends message to Morgan Wallen about the Gator chomp<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tebow sent a message to the singer on Saturday morning, via a comment on an Instagram post from Wallen\u2019s account, about not doing the Gator chomp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Wallen captioned the post, \u201cA lot of bad memories as a Vols fan cause of 15.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAwesome night brother!\u201d wrote Tebow. \u201cOnly thing that could\u2019ve made it better is if you\u2019d have given us a Gator chomp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Tennessee Vols \" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1137\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d2ad79324c69dbdb75f816dba503b42e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Morgan Wallen Instagram<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">College football looks a lot different these days thanks to the transfer portal and NIL deals, but it\u2019s nice to see that SEC rivalries are as strong as ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country music superstar and Tennessee Volunteers superfan Morgan Wallen played a concert in Gainesville on Friday night, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[3342,399,30971,21242,398,396,397,99,19501,191128],"class_list":["post-647199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-florida-gators","tag-football","tag-gator","tag-morgan-wallen","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports","tag-tennessee-volunteers","tag-tim-tebow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}