The Jets locker room at the team's suburban New Jersey training facility is shaped like a giant oval, with broad stalls ringing the walls and immaculately chiseled men lounging naked in front of them, oblivious to the crowd of reporters, male and female, who vibrate around like jittery molecules in search of someone undistracted enough to submit to an interview. Most of these players will be asked about Tim Tebow today, and the next day, and on and on, and it's hard not to wonder if they're already sick of it. A few reporters loiter in front of Tebow's locker until a Jets staffer comes in to announce that Tim's going to be a while, so they slouch away.
Today is day two of the Jets three-day mini-camp, the 2012 season's first o∞cial stretch of practices, and this is the only day during which Mark Sanchez, the Jets first-string quarterback, and Tebow, his newly acquired (from the Denver Broncos) and considerably more famous, polarizing, and cultural-phenomenon-y backup, will be made available to the media, which is why there are so many of us here.
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