There were seven minutes left in the third quarter when the Philadelphia fans began to cheer. Then they cheered louder. And then they stood.
At a meaningless preseason game. All for a guy who had not taken a snap in two years and was battling to be the third-string quarterback.
Short of a comeback from 52-year-old Randall Cunningham, there is only one man who could have gotten that reaction from normally tough Eagles fans. Tim Tebow, of course.
The noise was so loud that Tebow had to ask the fans for quiet so he could do a snap call from the shotgun, an action more associated with big moments in playoff games than with August football.