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| Tim Tebow |
To describe it with a religious picture that could please him: Tim Tebow, the devout quarterback of the Denver Broncos, is resurrected.
He started the season as the neglected preacher - on the bench. Then he came out of nowhere, people captivated, appeared during an inter-temporal series of 7-1 wins over even running water can be. Recently, however, after three terrible failures in a row, he saw himself exposed to an increasing number of heretics, which partly sobered and partly relieved noted: He is just not a chosen one.
As unpleasant as was the scenario that in the hours before the playoff game against the Pittsburgh Steelers even rumors began circulating that he could stay at the picture, even during the game to be crucified - by being taken off the field, he should in the first half, bringing back nothing about.
And suddenly, everything was "Tebow Magic"
But just as in his first start, it was on Sunday, if all other doubt him, Tebow runs on top form. After everything had begun as assumed (in the first two attack sequences of the Broncos he scored just ten yards of extra space), he pressed the trigger. With these words he had asked Vice President and club legend John Elway before the first playoff game since 2005, the Broncos to a riskier play, since he probably suspected: One big play, and return all of the lost self-confidence would.
The rally came in the form of a 51-yard pass to Demaryius Thomas. Suddenly, everything, "Tebow Magic" was. During the second quarter, he fired on all cylinders and dissected the dreaded, though weakened by injuries Steelers' defense, by further long passes, finally, by his own touchdown run. The devotion with which his teammates pounced on him in the end zone, showed how much he has behind the Broncos. As much as this in itself is only average team knows that it takes these irrational Tebow moments.
Only then do the Broncos - as Situationseuphoriker. They win their games by a few minutes of madness to break through long periods of mediocrity. Against the Steelers, this meant that no points in the first quarter, 20 in the second. And then again, zero in the third and only three in the fourth. Because the hospital led by Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of his hobbling the game got back under control, it went into overtime at 23:23.
Missionary son meets glamorous man - Tebow against Brady
"Tebow Time", the crucial minutes of the game are called in the U.S. because the Broncos the most victories under their new quarterback, either in the final phase in the extension or won. On Sunday took "Tebow Time" all of eleven seconds - then had served the quarterback in the first offensive play of the Thomas extension again, whereupon he ran into the end zone. It was the shortest of the NFL overtime history, and it promoted the Tebow hype to the summit.
After the sensational coup against the Super Bowl-record winning the Broncos come into the next round, now at the New England Patriots. Or when Tebow Tom Brady. Newcomer of the Year at the biggest star of the last decade. The missionary's son who wants to not have sex until marriage, the husband of glamorous Gisele Bündchen.
America is very excited: As Good as It is really hardly.
