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Buccaneers 'begged' Tim Tebow to play new position in Tampa Bay

Tim Tebow debuted his baseball skills to MLB teams Tuesday, and some NFL fans remain puzzled.

They wonder, for example, why Tebow would change sports. NFL teams liked Tebow as a player; they just didn't want to use him as a quarterback. A position change could have helped the former Heisman Trophy winner stay in the NFL, yet he refused.

Mark Dominik, who was the Buccaneers' general manager from 2009-13, tweeted Tuesday that he "begged" Tebow to play running back.

"I called & called agent Jimmy Sexton, begged him & Tim Tebow to come play H-back for the Bucs but it was always nome, only QB, now baseball," Dominik said.