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we had to wait until friday of the last day today to find out it was steve spurrier. t was a mistake. his football ops director filled out his ballot. he claims that he said it was okay and charles bloom, assistant s.e.c. commissioner confirmed to me this morning that steve called him last night and said, hey, it's a mistake, we want the change it, and to steve's credit he said tim tebow and danny wuerffel are the greatest quarterbacks he's ever seen play. >> is anyone buying spurrier's explanation, or is this come man place something like this could have occurred. >> i think it tells you how ridiculous these preseason ballots are. i think probably 80% of the cases not only in the s.e.c. but across the country you probably got operations guys and sports information directors filling out these ballots. hopefully that's not going on during the season when they're doing top 25 ballots, but i think you got the take steve at his word. i'd be surprised to see him shun a gator because he was the 1966 heisman trophy winner there and led them to the '96 national championship. >

you know, its former florida coach steve spur spurrier.is came up wednesday in the thursday morning paper, i read, oh, some guy did not vote for tim tebow. who was there? and, our director of operation filled it out brought it into me one day and i looked at it quickly, and i said, that's fine. i signed off on it. so i called it. and i said certainly we had tim tebow. he's actually coached. we had sneed. i said wait a minute, why? we already had 10 gators. maybe get another guy. and i said no, no, that's bad. that's my fault. i take full responsibility. i messed that up. and i apologize to tim tebow. we should not have messed that up. we screwed it up pretty badly. i'm embarrassed about it. i feel badly about it. and that's the way it happened. >> the vikes the nfl fans, all still waiting for brett favre to make up his mind about his nfl return. the viking knew what he would do. but it could be sooner than that. here's rachel nichols. >> while those close to brett favre are leaving open a window that the quarterback could decide his nfl fu