NEW YORK – Having flopped in football, Tim Tebow will try to revive his career as an outfielder with the New York Mets.
Four years removed from his last regular-season snap as an NFL quarterback, the 29-year-old agreed Thursday to a minor league contract with the Mets that includes a $100,000 signing bonus.
The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner at Florida, who played two NFL seasons with the Broncos and one with the Jets, will report Sept. 18 to the Instructional League in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and test his baseball skills for three weeks against players months removed from high school and college.
The Mets then will decide whether he goes to the Arizona Fall League, a winter league or gets personal tutoring to prepare for spring training.
"We don't have to listen to what everybody else wants us to do with our lives," Tebow said. "We get to do what we want."
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