DENVER One from the many storied NFL playoff coaches and teams played into a rejuvenated Tim Tebow as well as the Denver Broncos.
Sorry, Pittsburgh Steelers.
The powerful is actually back.
Tebow joined using Demaryius Thomas on an dazzling 80-yard touchdown pass around the best perform associated with overtime as well as Broncos conquered the stunned Steelers 29-23 while in the AFC wild-card sport with Sunday. Wild will not commence to explain it. The play needed 11 moments as well as appeared to be the particular best arriving in order to an overtime throughout NFL history .
Thomas taken away within a high play-action pass with the Denver 38, stiff-armed Ike Taylor after which outraced Ryan Mundy for the end zone. Tebow, who seem to looked when startled seeing that everybody else, chased straight down Thomas and also knelt on one particular knee a gesture identified world nowadays since Tebowing. Then he or she pounded a fist in triumph and also took a new victory lap.
"When I saw him scoring, very first of all, I merely thought, `Thank you, Lord,'" Tebow said. "Then, I had been operating quite fast, chasing him or her Like I can easily capture about D.T! Then I merely leaped amazingly into your stands, beginer I've done that. That was fun. Then, bought on a knee and thanked the particular Lord yet again as well as tried out for you to commemorate by using my own teammates as well as the fans."
Prodded by way of John Elway to help make it possible for the baseball fly, Tebow served as in the event the very last three weeks for no reason happened, raising the Broncos with their very first playoff win inside 6 months time years.
Behind Tebow's 316 back yards passing, your Broncos (9-8) are maneuvering to New England for a second-round adventure in opposition to the particular top-seeded Patriots with Saturday night. And, unlike Elway, who dropped his primary postseason begin towards Steelers in your house inside 1984 Tebow is 1-0 from the playoffs.
"We're just a struggling with team. A large amount of resilience," Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey said. "In virtually any damaging situation, we could get a strategy to get beyond it. Everybody affirms most people reinforced into your playoffs, we are in. We would one thing right together your way. We're in it. We won a game. Now, we now have got a chance to go aim to earn one more one."
The Steelers (12-5) lost despite Ben Roethlisberger rallying injury-depleted Pittsburgh at a two-touchdown halftime debt together with 10 details within the ultimate 10 minutes.
Pittsburgh labeled tails for your overtime coin toss, plus it emerged up heads.
Tebow, whom built personal trainer fourth-quarter comebacks and also three OT wins in the regular season, thrown away little time in discovering Thomas to finish that game. Mundy appeared to be playing rather than Ryan Clark, the actual Steelers' foremost tackler who sat that one available owing to a blood condition that's amplified with altitude.
Clark ended up being one of the Steelers sidelined or perhaps injured. Pro Bowl heart Maurkice Pouncey seemed to be out, supplanted simply by Doug Legursky, who had a bad bite appropriate just before halftime that moved Pittsburgh away of area goal range.
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