DENVER One on the nearly all storied NFL playoff teams played right into a rejuvenated Tim Tebow plus the actual Denver Broncos.
Sorry, Pittsburgh Steelers.
The wonder is definitely back.
Tebow linked with Demaryius Thomas on a strong provoking 80-yard touchdown offer the first engage in of overtime and the Broncos defeated this stunned Steelers 29-23 in the particular AFC wild-card video game upon Sunday. Wild won't commence to identify it. The play needed 11 just a few seconds and also was the particular best concluding for you to an overtime in NFL history .
Thomas delivered inside a large play-action excrete at the Denver 38, stiff-armed Ike Taylor after which you can outraced Ryan Mundy on the stop zone. Tebow, that seemed as shocked seeing that anyone else, chased decrease Thomas plus knelt about one knee a gesture known world nowadays when Tebowing. Then this individual pounded a fist inside triumph and took a success lap.
"When I observed the pup scoring, first with all, I just thought, `Thank you, Lord,'" Tebow said. "Then, I has been working pretty fast, chasing your pet Like I might snatch about D.T! Then I simply just dived into the stands, first time I've done that. That ended up being fun. Then, received over a knee in addition to thanked this Lord all over again and tried to be able to commemorate with my personal teammates along with the fans."
Prodded simply by John Elway to be able to let your golf ball fly, Tebow served since when one more three months under no circumstances happened, weightlifting the Broncos with their first playoff succeed in 6 months time years.
Behind Tebow's 316 meters passing, that Broncos (9-8) are maneuvering to New England for just a second-round adventure resistant to the top-seeded Patriots on Saturday night. And, unlike Elway, who seem to lost his / her primary postseason start off towards the Steelers in the home around 1984 Tebow is 1-0 within the playoffs.
"We're only some sort of arguing team. A large amount of resilience," Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey said. "In any unwanted situation, we shall get a method to be free from it. Everybody says many of us supported on the playoffs, we live in. We have some thing right along the way. We're in it. We won a new game. Now, we've got going try that will gain another one."
The Steelers (12-5) misplaced in spite of Ben Roethlisberger rallying injury-depleted Pittsburgh from the two-touchdown halftime debt along with 10 points in the final 10 minutes.
Pittsburgh known as tails to the overtime coin toss, along with it arrived upward heads.
Tebow, who engineered all 5 fourth-quarter comebacks and three OT is victorious in the normal season, burned insufficient time with getting Thomas to finish the actual game. Mundy has been playing rather than Ryan Clark, the particular Steelers' leading tackler whom sat this town away because of the continue condition that's exacerbated with altitude.
Clark ended up being one of many Steelers sidelined and also injured. Pro Bowl heart Maurkice Pouncey ended up being out, changed by Doug Legursky, who seem to have a terrible breeze right before halftime that will moved Pittsburgh beyond field goal range.
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