Tim Tebow Is Now In The Business Of Putting Others Out Of Business

There’s no denating that the Tim Tebow brand is a rather lucrative one. And that’s without taking one regular season snap as a NFL quarterback. So one shouldn’t be surprised that people will no affiliations with Tebow are trying to cash in on his brand.

The first to try their hand at making a quick buck off of Tebow is tebowtees.com. And predictably, they are the first to get hit with the iron fist by Tebow’s camp for trying to make a quick buck off of Tebow.

And to think, everything was all good until the Denver Post’s Penny Parker unveiled the company to the world.

I guess I didn’t do Seth Finley any favors when I told you last week about the Denver entrepreneur’s venture, tebowtees.com, a website that sold parody T-shirts paying homage to the Broncos backup quarterback. I’m not sure how many $20 T-shirts Finley was able to sell, but word reached me Monday that the site had shut down.

If you go to tebowtees.com, you’ll get this message: “Brand Enamel has been contacted by Tebow’s camp and in good faith we have shut down tebowtees.com and suspended sales of shirts online. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact us with questions at parody@brand enamel.com.”

Not terribly surprising when some of the messages on the shirts were too suggestive to even print in this newspaper, although Finley insisted he intended no disrespect.

“I got a call from someone in Tebow’s camp who threatened legal action,” Finley said. “So I shut it down. They said it was mostly a trademark and copyright issue having to do with Tebow’s name, but really they didn’t like the designs.”

When “Tebow’s camp” was contacted for comment, Broncos spokesman Paul Smyth, quoting Tebow’s business manager Angel Gonzalez, said, “He preferred to keep the matter private and did not want to go into any detail.”

Tebow: 1

Struggling entrepreneur looking for a quick buck: 0