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"Say it's just a whim, Tim.

It can't be so that the NFL's most marketable all-American boy is just another all-too-American, show-me-the-money athlete.

Tim Tebow is unofficially a contract holdout.

What's next, Wheaties becomes the Breakfast of Wall Street? The FDA bans hot dogs and apple pie? The Broncos put HealthOne sponsorship patches on their practice jerseys?

As a partial roster of Denver players put on their clean practice jerseys with the new Health-One patches for the start of rookie training camp Wednesday afternoon at the team's Dove Valley headquarters, Tebow's pristine image and unscrupulous reputation received its first minor smudge.

With his agent, Jimmy Sexton, quibbling with Broncos management over a couple of hundred thousand dollars here and there, Tebow was a no-show for the "soft opening" to Denver's training camp.

"We went through 60 pages this morning in an installation meeting, and those pages are filled with information," Broncos coach Josh McDaniels said. "It's not that we aren't going to go back and review that. We will. I think that any opportunity to get in more, particularly a young player, whatever position it is; whether it is a quarterback or something else, I think it helps them."

Tebow was joined in his "unofficial" holdout by the Broncos' other first-round draft pick, wide receiver Demaryius Thomas.

OK, so enough with the mockery of a hardly controversial situation.

First-round holdouts in the early days of training camps have become as commonplace in the NFL as checkdown passes. By the time the Broncos finished their 75-minute practice session Wednesday, only two of 32 first-round draft picks had signed.

Officially, the Broncos don't start training camp until Sunday morning, when the full squad lines up for its first contact practice. No player becomes an official holdout until the church bells ring."