It wasn't just that he passed for exactly 316 yards with the 80-yarder which won the game on the first play of overtime.
Tim Tebow also passed for an average per completion of exactly 31.6 yards (he was 10 for 21).
(Also, a hattip to a friend who pointed out that Pittsburgh had only had completed against them two passes of over 40 yards for the entire regular season. Yesterday, they gave up SIX such completions: Five in the second quarter (when he became the first player in playoff history to complete four passes of over 30 yards in one quarter), plus the game-winner to start overtime.)
And here's the final freakiness which is giving me even more indication that New England better prepare their vacation plans for next week, and this is according to John Ourand of Sports Business Journal: The final quarter-hour rating of the game for the overnight ratings?? 31.6!!
(Source for the three statistics of 3:16: Yahoo! Sports and their "Shutdown Corner" blog.)
And if you don't think the NFL is probably going to rig this entire playoffs for Tebow, consider this statistic from the blog post: Twitter reported yesterday that, the moment Tebow threw the touchdown pass to win the game in overtime, tweets about Tebow, the NFL, etc. were coming in at over 9,400 a SECOND! (That's about 560,000 per minute, and a record for a sports situation on the site.)
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